See petty cash receipt.
See petty cash receipt.
The cost accounting system where costs are recorded by individual job (versus process costing system). The job order system can use standard costs or actual costs.
See Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 121. Under this standard if the undiscounted future cash flows from the asset (including sale amount) are less than its carrying amount, a loss is recognized. The amount...
A method for estimating the inventory of a retailer. This method requires that the retail amounts and the related cost amounts are available for beginning inventory and purchases. An illustration of this technique is...
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The amount of temporary staffing costs that were used during the time interval indicated in the heading of the income statement.
An income statement with at least two columns of amounts. The column of amounts that is closest to the words will contain the amounts for the most recent period of time. The columns furthest from the words will be the...
A net debit balance for the total amount of owner’s equity. It is the result of the reported amount of liabilities exceeding the reported amount of assets.
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See direct labor efficiency variance.
A company’s balance sheet that shows each item’s amount after it has been divided by the amount of total assets. In other words, current assets will be shown as a percentage of total assets. This will allow...
How does the purchase of a new machine affect the profit and loss statement? Definition of New Machine’s Effect on Profit The purchase of a new machine that will be used in a business will affect the profit and loss...
What is the FISH inventory method? FISH is the acronym for first-in, still-here. FISH is an attempt to bring humor to the fact that some items have been sitting in inventory for years. Unlike FIFO and LIFO, which are...
The cash flow from operating activities minus the amount of capital expenditures. Other variations are also used. To learn more, see Explanation of Cash Flow Statement.
With regard to depreciation, what does the term mid-month convention mean? Definition of Mid-Month Convention In depreciation, the mid-month convention means that an asset placed into service anytime during a given...
What is the statement of activities? Definition of Statement of Activities The statement of activities is one of the main financial statements issued by a nonprofit organization. It is prepared instead of the income...
The most common example is the correction of an error from a prior year. When such a correction is made, it is reported in the current period’s statement of retained earnings rather than in the current...
A balance sheet with at least two columns of amounts. The column of amounts that is closest to the words will be the most recent amounts. The column furthest from the words will contain the oldest amounts. The older...
The depreciation method based on the number of units produced by the asset rather than on the passage of time. This method is also referred to as the units of activity method because depreciation is based on some...
What is the definition of capital market? Often, capital market refers to the structured market for trading stocks and bonds. Examples are the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the New...
A mathematical technique that determines the best-fitting line through a series of points. This is used in regression analysis.
See payroll taxes payable.
A term used in evaluating business investments. It represents the targeted rate that a company needs to earn. It is also referred to as the discount rate, because this rate is used to discount the future cash flows to...
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See perpetual system of inventory.
See common-size balance sheet and common-size income statement.
See fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance.
A cost associated with a batch of items, but not directly traceable to an individual item within the batch. For example, the cost to set up a machine to run a batch of 5,000 items is a batch-level cost. This cost must...
The amount by which the proceeds from the sale of investments exceeded the carrying amount of the investments that were sold. It is reported as a non-operating or “other” item on a multiple-step income...
Activities involving a batch of products—as opposed to individual items. An example of a batch activity is the setting up of a machine to produce a batch of 1,000 identical items.
The ratio of the market value of a share of common stock to the earnings per share of common stock. For example, if a corporation earned $3 per share and its stock is trading at $36, it’s price earnings ratio is...
Often a liability representing the differences between the income tax expense associated with the revenues and expenses reported on a corporation’s income statements and the actual income tax appearing on the...
See current portion of long-term debt.
Usually a simple form used by the petty cash custodian in order to document small payments from a petty cash box.
What is the working capital turnover ratio? Definition of Working Capital Turnover Ratio The working capital turnover ratio is also referred to as net sales to working capital. It indicates a company’s effectiveness in...
What is historical cost? Definition of Historical Cost Historical cost is a term used instead of the term cost. Cost and historical cost usually mean the original cost at the time of a transaction. The term historical...
The actual cost incurred for manufacturing costs other than direct materials and direct labor which increase as production volume increases. Examples include manufacturing supplies and electricity to operate the...
See discounted cash flow model.
The amount by which total costs will change when an activity is increased by one unit. In the equation of the line, y = a + bx, the variable cost rate is represented by ‘b’ and the units of activity are...
Using the information generated in activity-based costing to plan and control activities and processes.
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