Earnings Credit is a type of credit offered by the financial institution to its customers, based on the average balance maintained in their accounts. Earnings Credit is a Soft Dollar Credit and is used to offset various charges in an invoice. Earnings Credit is never offered directly to the customer, but is always adjusted against the customer's charges.
Assets are increased with a debit and decreased by a credit. Retained earnings is a credit, as they are an owners equity account and increase with credit.Retained earnings is what a company has after all expenses and dividends (if applicable) are paid. Retained earnings is shown on the Statement of Retained Earnings and is a credit which increases OE.
The retained earnings account usually carries a credit balance.
Yes, since this account (Retained Earnings) is a credit account and an uppropriate retained earnings account is simply a non-restricted account which is Retained Earnings !!! Even the restricted/ appropriate retained earnings are credited.
The term for the earnings an auctioneer makes is wages.
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normal balance of retained earnings: credit.
There are two separate definitions for the term 'Earnings Credit'.They cause confusion even the banking industry. 1. Earnings Credit is the adjustment factor used by banks to reduce service charges on business checking (No interest) accounts. It is not an account in and of itself. This rate is usually based on some percentage of the 13 week T-Bill rate and therefore moves. 2. Earning Credit is also the rate used by banks to set the credit allowed on a customers deposit balances. These are separate rates with the same name. Try www.investorguide.com
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Retained earnings are the profit of previous fiscal years and liability of business to return back to it's owner so it has a credit balance as of all liability accounts.