Poll

Do you think revenues at your firm or your company will increase or decrease this year?:

States

Articles : 31
Submited Firms : 6
Glossary Words : 3042
Jobs Request :
Group Members : 642
Excel Files : 113
PPT Files : 500
PDF Files : 23

Google Ads

Who's online

There are currently 0 users and 2 guests online.
(1) | A (243) | B (145) | C (408) | D (201) | E (153) | F (182) | G (79) | H (37) | I (190) | J (26) | K (4) | L (118) | M (121) | N (74) | O (79) | P (219) | Q (30) | R (146) | S (287) | T (160) | U (44) | V (38) | W (46) | Y (5) | Z (6)
Titlesort icon Teaser
BACK CHARGE

 

item previously charged to an account but unpaid. The current invoice requests...

BACK ORDER

 

customer's order that cannot be filled at the present time usually because the...

BACK UP

to make a duplicate copy of original data or files usually stored on a separate data storage...

BACKFLUSH COSTING

product costing approach, used in a JUST-INTIME (JIT) operating environment, in which costing is...

BACKUP WITHHOLDING

procedure used to ensure that federal income tax is paid on earnings even though the recipient...

BAD DEBT

 

account or note receivable that proves to be entirely or partially uncollectible...

BAD DEBT EXPENSE

 

account shown in the income statement representing estimated uncollectible credit...

BAD DEBT RECOVERY

 

account receivable previously written off as uncollectible is now collected. The...

BAILMENT

contractual transfer of dollars or personal property for a specified objective. An example is...

BAILOUT PAYBACK METHOD PAYBACK PERIOD

 

method incorporating the salvage value of the asset into the calculation. It...

BAIT RECORDS

 

internal control device. Bait or dummy records may be in computer files so the...

BALANCE

 

1. difference between total debits and total credits in an account.


...

BALANCE OF PAYMENTS

 

record of the transactions of a country with the rest of the world. There are...

BALANCE OF RETAINED EARNINGS

 

accompanies the balance sheet and shows the beginning balance of retained earnings...

Balance Sheet

Reports the amount of assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity of an accounting...

BALANCE SHEET ACCOUNT

appears in the balance sheet. Unlike income statement accounts that are NOMINAL ACCOUNTS,...

Balance Sheet Equation

Assets = Liabilities + Stockholders' Equity.

balance-of-payments deficit

An excess demand for foreign currency at current exchange rates.

balance-of-payments surplus

An excess demand for domestic currency at current exchange rates.

BALANCED BUDGET

 

one in which total expenditures equal total revenue. An entity has a budget...

BALANCED SCORECARD

 

approach using multiple measures to evaluate managerial performance. These...

BALLOON

 

last loan payment when it is significantly more than the prior payments; also...

BANK BALANCE

amount in a bank deposit account, such as a checking or savings account, as of a certain...

Bank Reconciliation

Process of verifying the accuracy of both the bank statement and the cash accounts of a...

BANK RECONCILIATION

term used when settling differences contained in the BANK STATEMENT and the cash account in the...

bank reserves

Assets held by a bank to fulfill its deposit obligations.

Bank Statement

Monthly report from a bank that shows deposits recorded, checks cleared, other debits and...

BANK STATEMENT

 

form prepared by the bank and sent to the depositor to show transactions in the...

BANKER'S ACCEPTANCE

 

time draft drawn by a business firm whose payment is guaranteed by the bank's...

BANKRUPTCY (BUSINESS)

 

situation in which a business' debt exceeds the fair market value of its assets....

BANKRUPTCY (PERSONAL)

 

legal process that is available for an individual who is overextended financially...

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION

ability of an auditor to project whether the client has a going-concern problem. If it does have...

BARGAIN PURCHASE

 

asset or goods acquired for materially less than fair market value. For example, a...

BARGAIN PURCHASE OPTION

 

one of the four criteria to be satisfied for a lessee to account for leased...

BARGAIN RENEWAL OPTION

 

lessee's ability to renew a lease at sub-sequent minimal rental payments. Minimal...

barriers to entry

Obstacles such as patents that make it difficult or impossible for wouldbe producers to enter a...

Create your free account

- Create private page
- Access all files & articles
- Create My Article
- Access Professional glossary
- Free register jobs request
- Access to post in the Forums
- Unlimited communication with members


REGISTER NOW

Newsletter