Selling price per unit minus variable costs per unit, or revenues per unit minus expenses per unit.
Selling price per unit minus variable costs per unit, or revenues per unit minus expenses per unit.
Payables arising from the purchase of merchandise inventory and outside services. See accounts payable.
Usually means every two weeks. For example, if an employee is paid every other Thursday, the employee is paid biweekly. The person paid biweekly will receive 26 paychecks per year. (People paid two times per month...
The phrase used by FASB Statement 117 that describes the required focus of a nonprofit’s external financial statements. Previously the external financial statements focused on individual funds.
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 expense incurred during the time interval indicated on the income statement for using rented equipment.
A series of equal amounts occurring at the beginning of each equal time interval. Also known as an annuity due. An example would be the monthly rent on an apartment.
Assigning more manufacturing overhead to production than the amount that was actually incurred.
An average that changes with an additional purchase. See perpetual moving average in Explanation of Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold.
The term used by manufacturers to indicate that its manufacturing overhead applied or assigned to its output is less than the amount actually incurred.
This is a non-operating or “other” item resulting from the sale of an asset (other than inventory) for less than the amount shown in the company’s accounting records.
To assign or allocate on a logical basis. For example, the materials price variance in a standard costing system is prorated to the following categories: materials inventory, work-in-process inventory, finished goods...
Either a temporary restriction or a permanent restriction imposed by the donor of an asset when it is contributed to a nonprofit organization.
See job order cost sheet.
The process of comparing the amounts in the Cash account in the general ledger to the amounts appearing on the bank statement. The objective is to be certain that there is consistency between the amounts and that the...
The annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a U.S. government agency. The Form 10-K must be filed by corporations whose stock is publicly-traded on a U.S. stock exchange. The report contains the...
The section of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) code which includes public charities such as religious, scientific, educational, and certain other organizations. Under section 501(c)(3) a nonprofit can be approved...
The amount that a recurring equal amount deposited at the beginning of each period will grow to under compounded interest. An annuity due is also known as an annuity in advance.
A non-operating item resulting from the sale of this long-term asset for less than its carrying amount (or book value).
See variable manufacturing overhead spending variance.
A second retained earnings account that reports the amount that a company has transferred from the unappropriated or regular retained earnings account.
See fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance.
Future cash amounts that have not been discounted to their present value.
It is common for a small quantity to account for most of the value. Examples: 20% of the people may have 80% of the wealth; 20% of the members do 80% of the work; 20% of the items in inventory account for 80% of the...
In the context of inventory, net realizable value or NRV is the expected selling price in the ordinary course of business minus the costs of completion, disposal, and transportation. In the context of accounts receivable...
See fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance.
A liability account that reports amounts received in advance of providing goods or services. When the goods or services are provided, this account balance is decreased and a revenue account is increased. To learn more,...
A management tool that identifies the critical path—the path of sequential activities requiring the longest time to complete.
The third section of the statement of cash flows. To learn more, see Explanation of Cash Flow Statement.
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Sorting and reporting expenses according to the type of activity for which the expense was incurred. The functional expense classifications for a nonprofit organization would be Program #1, Program #2, Management and...
Stock without a par value.
The stated interest rate appearing on the face of the bond. Also referred to as the nominal rate or the stated interest rate.
An income statement account at a financial institution used to record and report the amounts earned from fees charged to customers.
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...
See accrual-type adjusting entry.
The cumulative amount of depletion expense pertaining to the natural resources shown on the balance sheet. The account has a credit balance and will be reported on the balance sheet as a contra asset.
A variance arising in a standard costing system that indicates the difference between 1) the standard cost of the direct labor that should have been used (the standard hours times the standard rate) for the good output,...
Rates based on a department’s direct and indirect overhead costs and some measure of the department’s activity, such as the department’s machine hours. Departmental rates are more accurate than...
Receivables due from customers. See accounts receivable.
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