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When you close the accounts, it totals into retained earnings, so in turn, it is essentially retained earnings.

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Which accounts are closed in the closing entries?

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What are the differences between dividend and expense accounts?

Dividend account is the account used to record money paid on stock such as common stock, this comes out of retained earnings. Expense accounts are expenses that the company has to maintain operation and come out of Revenue, before dividends are calculated. A company may choose to not pay dividends on stock for a year (or so) if the company's retained earnings do not meat a certain amount.


Dividend account is treated as either asset account liability account or expense account?

Hi, Dividends are paid out of retained earnings (part of Capital) therefore I think Dividends can not be treated as an expense (the prudence being increase in Capital can not be treated as Revenue thats Cash generation while dividends are Surplus appropriation). regards, Zeeshan


4 How is it possible to have taxable income which means a property is profitable yet have negative cash flow?

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Closing an s corporation journal entries?

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What are the 4 closing entries?

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