Mary Girsch-Bock is the expert on accounting software and payroll software for The Ascent. If you’re unsure when to debit and when to credit an account, check out our t-chart below. All “mini-ledgers” in this section show standard increasing attributes for the five elements of accounting. Manufacturing supplies are items used in the manufacturing facilities, […]
In a budget, retained earnings are the amount of income after expenses (or net income) that a company has held onto over the years. Notice how only the balance in retained earnings has changed and it now matches what was reported as ending retained earnings in the statement of retained earnings and the balance sheet. […]
In this case, the stated value becomes the legal capital while the amount received in excess of the stated value is treated as contributed capital in excess of the stated value of the common stock. This contributed capital in excess of stated value is recorded and presented separately in the equity section of the balance […]
That said the landlord typically limits their annual exposure to the amount of expenses incurred in the base year of the lease – which is typically the first year of the lease. The landlord then continues to pay the property’s expenses in the amount in the base year but the tenant agrees to pay its […]
Otherwise, it will be difficult to measure the performance of an entity based on a comparison with prior years or periods. By allowing companies to divide their activity into distinct periods, accountants can keep track of all transactions and create accurate reports on how well their business is performing over time. The periodicity assumption is […]
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189, lawmakers have decoupled the state’s tax code from the federal business net interest limitation under IRC § 163(j) by allowing businesses to fully deduct interest expenses in the year incurred. Further, New Hampshire will allow taxpayers to deduct, over three years (in equal parts), any carryforwards of business interest expenses that were previously disallowed. […]
I think that the cost of gift cards is immaterial, 1 or 2 cents per card, and can be directly expensed as overhead like selling expense. Then when a gift card is sold, the proper treatment is to debit the tender, like cash, and credit Gift Card liability, not sales. Then when the gift card […]