(Quoted from answers.com): Usually a temporary account containing costs or amounts that are to be transferred to another account. An example is the income summary account containing revenue and expense amounts to be transferred to retained earnings at the close of a fiscal period. (Quoted from www.teachmefinance.com): A a bank account used by a mortgage servicing company for the temporary, short-term deposit of mortgage payments that have been collected and are either awaiting transmittal to investors who bought the mortgages or awaiting deposit in escrow accounts. (Quoted from www.ofm.wa.gov/policysc/glossary.htm): An account used to accumulate total charges or credits so that they can be distributed later among the accounts to which they are allocable or so that the net differences can be transferred to the proper account.
Net asset value (NAV) is a term that is used in Mutual funds. It is the current value of the assets held under the investment.
Let us say a mutual fund house has 100,000 units in the market at a face value of $10 then the MF house would have collected $1,000,000. This amount will be used to purchase shares. Here $10 is the face value or the initial NAV of the mutual fund.
After say 3 months, the value of the investments (shares and other stock market instruments) have increased and the net assets in the fund is $1,500,000 then the current NAV is $15. The Net asset value of the mutual fund has increased by $5 in the past 3 months.
Net asset value of the business means the firms total assets less its total liabilities.
How much net profit does the average pack and ship store make?
We run a pack & ship in a small rural community (About 5000 people) and have been running this store for five years. Everybody loves us and everybody wants us to stay, but we make zero profit. The business pays its own expenses but does not afford any salary at this time. Hope this helps.
Return on Assets percentage shows us how profitable a company's assets are in terms of generating revenue. This number tells us what the company can do with the assets it has i.e., how many rupees the company has earned based on every rupee of asset they control. It is a useful number for comparing two evenly matched or competing companies in the same industry. This number may vary widely when we compare companies across industries. Usually companies in capital intensive industries will have lower return on assets.
Formula:
ROA = Net Income from Assets / Total Assets
In accounting, especially for government operations, a "capital reserve fund" holds money that the officers or taxpayers have set aside for a specific purpose. The fund can be invested and grown, but can only be spent on the allowed purposes, unless new legislation is passed. The general fund can be spent for any legal purpose, or portions can be "earmarked" for a particular purpose, or put into capital reserve for spending on that purpose later.
How can a firm operate with a negative cash balance on its corporate books?
Hi .... To ans to ur question, I would like to giv u one example.. If Company X issue cheques for more than its bank balance and sends them to its vendors. When the cheques get back to Company X's after checking its account, at that time Company X's bank will have two options when Company X's checking account does have not sufficient funds to cover the cheques: 1. The bank could pay the cheques and allow Company X's checking account to be overdrawn. (Some call this an unauthorized loan by the bank.) Company X then has the obligation or liability to repay the bank for the courtesy extended to Company X. 2. If Company X's bank does not pay the cheques because the account has insufficient funds, the bank will return the cheques as NSF (not sufficient funds). These cheques are returned throught the banking system and eventually the bank of the payee will take the amount of the cheques from the payee's checking account. The payee will in turn reinstate the liability amount owed to it by Company X. In essence Company X did not eliminate its liability to the payee by issuing a worthless cheques...........
Objectives of cash flow statement?
Provide information about the operating ,investing and financing activity of an entity during a period
Why is general accepted accounting principles important?
GAAP accounting insures that financial statements can be relied upon by people outside the company such as banks and investors. It allows them to assume that the Balance Sheet and Income Statment have been prepared in a logical and accurate fashion and can be relied upon to make decisions about the company's financial position.
What is Accounts Receivable Management?
Accounts receivable management is a process of granting credit to customers as well as then receiving money at maturity time. Accounts receivable management includes activities like:
1 - Credit limit
2 - Credit time
3 - Discount allowed etc.
What is the difference between revaluation Surplus and revaluation Reserve?
Fundamentally, a revaluation surplus and a revaluation reserve is the same. A revaluation reserve is a revaluation surplus obtained from evaluation.
Subversion refers to any attempt to change the established order of society, its power structures, and its hierarchy. Internal subversion refers to attempts made by those within the system.
Is depreciation expense under administrative expense?
Depreciation expense can be allocated to Administrative Expense or Selling & Marketing Expense or even to Cost Of Goods Sold. The amount of allocation and how that is done is specific to the type of business or industry.
I think its to make persons in a organization aware of certain changes.
Why is net profit added back in capital on the liability side?
Because net profit is the increase in capital for the period of time, and must be added to capital to reflect its true value.
Can someone that has full power of attorny have banks or other financial statement sent to you?
Answer Anyone who has Power of Attorney has to go to these financial instutes with the papers that were granted by a court of law and show them as proof before any financial instution will release anything. The reason for this is security. Anyone can say they have Power of Attorney so the banks will demand that proof is given before they release anything to anyone.
When equipment is sold for cash the amount received is reflected as a cash?
That really depends on several things. What accounting method are you using?
Has the equipment been depreciated down to salavage value?
Has the equipment actually been paid for yet?
Yes, initially, you would debit your cash account for the amount received for the equipment, but you wouldn't stop there. A lot of other accounts would be affected as well.
If this equipment has already been depreciated down to salvage value, and you receive more than salvage value in cash for it, then you have a capital gain. If you sold it for less than salvage value, you have a loss. What is the current value on the books for this equipment? If you sold it for more of less than that value, you have a gain or a loss.
Do you even have this equipment listed as assets?
What is the difference between amortization and depreciation?
Amortization usually refers to spreading an intangible asset's cost over that asset's useful life. Depreciation, on the other hand, refers to prorating a tangible asset's cost over that asset's life.
Depreciation Is Applicable only on Fixed & Tangible Assets Which Depends on useful life of that assets that may be expected accurately but Amortization applicable on Intangible Assets whose life is very critical to be measured.
DEPRECIATION is calculated for tangible assets while AMORTIZATION is calculated for intangible assets.
What is shown on a customer statement?
Typical components on a Customer Statement:
Date of Statement
Customer Name & Address
Customer Number/Account Number
Detail of charges for the month (or other period) such as: date of invoice, invoice number, invoice amount.
Beginning Balance
Current Charges
Payments Received
Balance Due (Current and Past Due)
Cash float is a term used to describe a bank account that is set up to specifically float money from one business to another business. The purpose of this is to enhance the perceived value of one of the businesses.