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What is rent and rates as in accounting terms?
Rent in accounting terms refers to a recurring expense that you plan for. Rate refers more to something that results in a debit on expense, but a credit on payables.
What are the accounts affected for rent paid in advanced?
Payer: debit prepaid rent and credit cash. Remember the accrual basis of accounting. After using rent for one month. Then the payer debits rent expense and credits prepaid rent.
Is rent expense a liability?
rent is an expense while outstanding rent is a liability
Is an increase in rent expense a credit?
Rent expense has a debit balance as a normal balance so increase in rent will be shown by debit to rent expense.
What is the difference between prepaid rent and rent expense?
Prepaid rent is an asset and represents and advance payment for a future benefit Rent expense is an expense and is the expended portion of the rent consumed.
What is rent and rates as in accounting terms?
Rent in accounting terms refers to a recurring expense that you plan for. Rate refers more to something that results in a debit on expense, but a credit on payables.
What are the accounts affected for rent paid in advanced?
Payer: debit prepaid rent and credit cash. Remember the accrual basis of accounting. After using rent for one month. Then the payer debits rent expense and credits prepaid rent.
Is rent expense a liability?
rent is an expense while outstanding rent is a liability
Is an increase in rent expense a credit?
Rent expense has a debit balance as a normal balance so increase in rent will be shown by debit to rent expense.
What is the difference between prepaid rent and rent expense?
Prepaid rent is an asset and represents and advance payment for a future benefit Rent expense is an expense and is the expended portion of the rent consumed.
What is accrual accounting?
Accrual Accounting refers to the recording of financial transactions once an economic event has happened and is not based on the movement of cash. For example, in Accrual Accounting if you have office rent of $1000 per month, you would record the expense of $1000 each month, regardless if you have actually paid the rent or received an invoice from the landlord. Most individuals (you and me) live our daily lives in the cash basis of accounting. We we get our paychecks we have revenue, when we pay our car note we have expense.
Is rent expense an other expense?
If rent is paid for any activity which is directly related with the primary business activity then rent is not other expense, but if rent is paid for activity which is not directly related to primary business activity then it is other expense.
How is rent expense properly recorded?
Debit Rent Expense xxxx Credit Rent payable / cash /bank xxxx
Is Rent payable is recorded in accounting year?
First let me say there is no account referred to as "Rent Payable". Rent is an operating expense for a business, you have two main accounts that deal with rent. 1 is Prepaid Rent, the other is Rent Expense. Prepaid Rent is used if the company pays their rent in advance. Prepaid Rent is an Asset. For example a company pays 6 months rent in advance, the journal entry isPrepaid Rent (debit) $$$Cash (credit) $$$Each month as the rent is "used up" an adjusting entry must be made. Since the cash has already been paid the entries move the amount needed of that month from one account to another. In this case we want to move it from the asset account Prepaid Rent to the Expense account Rent Expense the entry is;Rent Expense (debit) $$$Prepaid Rent (credit) $$$As you notice since prepaid rent is an asset account it has a debit balance, therefore to "remove" the amount of rent used we must credit that amount.If the company pays their rent monthly on a cash basis the journal entry is simple and straight forward.Rent Expense (debit) $$$Cash (credit) $$$You will not see an account called "Rent Payable" as a payable account is a liability account and expense are not classified as a liability but an operating expense.
Accrued rent expense is a liability?
Accrued rent expense is classified as an Expense. It's not classified as a liability. Expenses are paid out of "Revenue" and they affect "Retained Earnings". When you do a Trial Balance before closing out your accounts, Expenses are actually listed with Assets, because all "Expenses" contain a debit balance.There is only one reason an expense would be listed as a liability and that is if you post the transaction before paying it and then the account "Expense Payable" is used and is a liability as it is a "Payable" and actually is not listed with the term "expense" in it. For example if you have Rent Expense, then the two accounts used are Rent Expense and Rent Payable. Notice the "liability" account is actually titled "rent payable" not "rent expense".The term accrued is merely the term used in Accrual Accounting, which simply means that all transactions are recorded as they occur or "accrue" as opposed to cash basis accounting where transactions are recorded only when cash is paid out or received.In actuality if you are trying to classify your accounts, such as the question, classify the following accounts as either an Asset, Liability or Owners Equity Account, Expenses will be classified as an Owners Equity Account as they affect Retained Earnings, which in turn affects Owners Equity (stockholders equity).
Does rent expense go under selling or general and administrative expenses?
administrative expenses;
Describe how an accurral accounting deferent fom cash accounting?
Accrual accounting records an expense/revenue in the period the transaction occurs. Cash accounting recognizes and expense/revenue when cash is exchanged.
