Financial Ratios (Practice Quiz)

A revenue account that reports the sales of merchandise. Sales are reported in the accounting period in which title to the merchandise was transferred from the seller to the buyer.

A current asset resulting from selling goods or services on credit (on account). Invoice terms such as (a) net 30 days or (b) 2/10, n/30 signify that a sale was made on account and was not a cash sale.

To learn more about accounts receivable, see our Accounts Receivable and Bad Debts Expense Outline.

A current asset whose ending balance should report the cost of a merchandiser’s products awaiting to be sold. The inventory of a manufacturer should report the cost of its raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods. The cost of inventory should include all costs necessary to acquire the items and to get them ready for sale.

When inventory items are acquired or produced at varying costs, the company will need to make an assumption on how to flow the changing costs. See cost flow assumption.

If the net realizable value of the inventory is less than the actual cost of the inventory, it is often necessary to reduce the inventory amount.

To learn more about inventory, see our Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold Outline.

The amount of income tax that is associated with (matches) the net income reported on a corporation’s income statement. This amount will likely be different than the income taxes actually payable, since some of the revenues and expenses reported on the tax return will be different from the amounts on the income statement. For example, a corporation is likely to use straight-line depreciation on its income statement, but will use accelerated depreciation on its income tax return.

This account is a non-operating or “other” expense for the cost of borrowed money or other credit. The amount of interest expense appearing on the income statement is the cost of the money that was used during the time interval shown in the heading of the income statement, not the amount of interest paid during that period of time.