In financial accounting this term refers to the amount of debt excluding interest. Payments on mortgage loans usually require monthly payments of principal and interest.
In financial accounting this term refers to the amount of debt excluding interest. Payments on mortgage loans usually require monthly payments of principal and interest.
The result of subtracting operating expenses from gross profit. Income from operations is the amount before non-operating items (such as gains and losses on the sale of assets, interest revenue, and interest expense).
A payment toward the amount of principal owed. Generally when a loan payment consists of only a principal and interest payment, the amount owed for interest is processed first and the remaining amount of the payment is...
products or services are __________ __________ each other. Select... different from similar to 11. The numerator in the calculation of a predetermined overhead rate is the __________ amount of factory overhead....
The systematic allocation of the discount on bonds payable (reported as a debit in a contra-liability account) to Bond Interest Expense over the life of the bonds. The journal entry to amortize contains a debit to the...
A bearer bond is a bond that is not registered in its owner’s name. The person holding the bond is presumed to be the owner of the bond. The interest on a bearer bond is received by clipping one of the dated...
The amount of principal owed on a loan. On the typical mortgage loan, a portion of the monthly payment is applied to interest and principal. The amount of principal that remains after the principal payment is the unpaid...
Also referred to as peripheral activities. A company’s activities outside of its main activities of buying/producing and selling. Examples include a retailer’s financing function involving interest revenue...
Obligations that a company has incurred, but have not yet been routinely recorded in Accounts Payable. For example, if the interest on a bank loan is paid on the 10th of each month, then on the last day of each month...
A liability account with a credit balance associated with bonds payable that were issued at more than the face value or maturity value of the bonds. The premium on bonds payable is amortized to interest expense over the...
The systematic allocation of the premium on bonds payable (reported as a credit in a liability account) to Bond Interest Expense over the life of the bonds. The journal entry to amortize the premium contains a debit to...
What does NOI stand for? NOI is the acronym for net operating income. Net operating income is also referred to as income from operations. NOI excludes discontinued operations, extraordinary items, and nonoperating (or...
What is the difference between stocks and bonds? Definition of Stocks Stocks, or shares of capital stock, represent an ownership interest in a corporation. Every corporation has common stock. Some corporations issue...
borrows the money for the construction from its local bank. The accounting rules state that the interest incurred for self-constructing the building should be added to the cost of the building. (The FASB refers to this...
asset Prepaid Insurance. During the month of January, the company should report $100 of insurance expense. At the end of January, the company’s balance sheet should report Prepaid Insurance of $500 (indicating that...
A multi-column listing of the amounts needed to eliminate a balance in a systematic manner over the life of the item. For example, an amortization schedule for a 15-year mortgage loan would show the 180 payments. The...
Costs that are matched with revenues on the income statement. For example, Cost of Goods Sold is an expense caused by Sales. Insurance Expense, Wages Expense, Advertising Expense, Interest Expense are expenses matched...
What is callable stock? Callable stock is an ownership interest (shares) in a corporation that can be “called in” by the corporation at a specified price. For example, a corporation might issue 9% $100 Preferred...
on equity, let’s assume that a corporation uses long term debt to purchase assets that are expected to earn more than the interest on the debt. The earnings in excess of the interest expense on the new debt will...
. Bank interest earned Loan payments Electronic charges or remittances from suppliers and others Customer’s checks that were deposited but are now being returned because of insufficient funds The journal entries for...
is helpful in determining the two components of a mixed cost (also known as semivariable cost): The amount that is fixed or constant The variable rate (the rate by which the total cost changes when there is one...
How do I calculate the amount of sales tax that is included in total receipts? Sales Tax Calculation To calculate the sales tax that is included in a company’s receipts, divide the total amount received (for the items...
to the change in the volume of activity A mixed cost is also referred to as a semivariable cost. A mixed cost is expressed by the algebraic formula y = a + bx, where: y is the total cost a is the fixed cost per period b...
year 2022, the Social Security payroll tax rate of 6.2% is applied to each employee’s earnings up to the maximum of $147,000. The amount withheld from employees is then matched by the employer. As a result, the total...
manufactured. This is often done by using a predetermined overhead rate. The predetermined rate is likely based on the amount from the annual manufacturing overhead budget divided by some activity such as the expected...
The variable manufacturing costs other than direct materials and direct labor that have been assigned to the products manufactured via a predetermined rate. Ideally, by the end of the accounting year the amount applied...
Assigning manufacturing overhead costs to products being manufactured by using a manufacturing overhead rate.
In the equation of a straight line, y = a + bx, ‘bx’ is the total variable cost resulting from the variable cost rate ‘b’ multiplied times the quantity ‘x’.
An employee’s pretax compensation that is based on annual or monthly amounts rather than an hourly rate. Management employees are usually paid salaries. To learn more, see Explanation of Payroll Accounting.
A process which discounts future cash flows to the present in order to reflect the time value of money. Examples of the discounted cash flow model are net present value and internal rate of return.
A term used to describe the net present value method and the internal rate of return. The model discounts future cash flows back to the present time.
Manufacturing overhead assigned to units of output. Often this is applied via a standard overhead rate. See the Explanation of Standard Costing.
In standard costing the difference between the actual cost and the standard cost of direct materials or direct labor. The price variance of direct labor is usually referred to as the labor rate variance.
The actual cost of direct materials, the actual cost of direct labor, and manufacturing overhead applied by using a predetermined annual overhead rate.
See direct labor rate variance.
See direct labor efficiency variance and direct labor rate variance.
An employee’s pretax compensation based on hours worked times an hourly rate of pay. Production workers and nonmanagement employees are usually paid wages. To learn more, see Explanation of Payroll Accounting.
Within a reasonable range of activity, the slope of the cost line is the variable rate, which is often denoted as ‘b’ in the straight line y = a + bx.
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