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Income received in advance is a current liability because you (or the company) has not fulfilled its obligation in earning this income.

For example, say you sale computers and someone pays you $1,500 for a computer and you are going to have the computer to them in maybe 14 days, they have prepaid you in anticipation that you will fulfill your obligation and send them the computer. If anything happens and you are unable to fulfill this and send them the computer, you are liable to return the money they paid you for this.

Once the computer is sent, the Income is then removed as a liability and is reported as earned income. The accounts used to record such a transaction are..

Debit Cash

Credit Unearned Income

Once the obligation is fulfilled we then remove this entry from unearned income by

Debiting Unearned Income

Crediting Income (many companies use Revenue)

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