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SAFE HARBOR RULE

tax provision enacted as part of the Economic Tax Recovery Act of 1981 to guarantee sale/...

SAFEGUARDING OF ASSETS

protecting the firm's assets through a good internal control system. The objective is to guard...

SAFETY MARGIN

excess of actual sales over break-even sales. If the break-even point is 3000 units and actual...

SAFETY STOCK

extra units of inventory carried as protection against possible stockouts. The safety stock must...

SALE

1. revenue recognition from the delivery of merchandise or from rendering a service in exchange...

SALE AND LEASEBACK

sale of property by the owner to a purchaser who then leases it to the former owner. The net...

Sales Discount

Cash discount offered to encourage prompt payment of an account receivable.

SALES ALLOWANCE

reduction in the selling price of goods because of a particular problem (e.g., breakage, quality...

SALES BUDGET

operating plan for a period expressed in terms of sales volume and selling prices for each class...

SALES DISCOUNT

cash given by the seller to the purchaser for early payment of the account due. For example,...

SALES FORECASTING

projection or prediction of future sales. It is the foundation for the quantification of the...

SALES JOURNAL

special book in which credit sales are recorded. The total columns of the sales journal are...

SALES MIX

relative proportions of the product sold. For example, a company has three products and their...

SALES MIX VARIANCE

 

effect on profit of selling a different proportionate mix of products than had...

SALES PRICE VARIANCE

difference between actual selling price per unit and the budgeted selling price per unit,...

SALES RETURN

 

merchandise given back to the seller because of defects. Sales returns reduce the...

Sales Returns and Allowances

Reduction of sales revenues for return of or allowances for unsatisfactory goods....

SALES TAX

state or local tax based on a percentage of the selling price of the goods or service that the...

SALES TYPE LEASE

 

SALES VOLUME VARIANCE

 

difference between the actual number of units sold and the budgeted number,...

Salvage Value

Estimated amount to be recovered, less disposal costs, at the end of the company's...

SALVAGE VALUE

 

expected price for a fixed asset no longer needed in business operations; also...

SAMPLE

selected items in a POPULATION. It is often impossible or impractical to observe a population if...

SAMPLING

process of selecting items from a POPULATION to reach a conclusion about the population. For...

SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION

giving the probability of each possible value of a statistic. It is computed from a sample of n...

SAMPLING ERROR

difference between the value obtained by sampling and the value that would have been obtained if...

SAMPLING RISK

percentage likelihood that a sample result is not representative of the population. An allowance...

SCAN

to read through a document rather hastily. In a desk-top publishing computer system, a document...

SCATTERGRAPH METHOD

graphical procedure used to separate a SEMIVARIABLE EXPENSE (or mixed cost) into the fixed and...

SCHEDULE

1. supporting set of calculations, data, information, or analysis that shows or amplifies how...

SCHEDULE OF EQUIVALENT PRODUCTION

process costing schedule in which a period's equivalent units are computed for both material...

SCOPE

 

aspects of an audit concerning the procedures employed, the extent of what was...

SCOPE LIMITATION

situation that may include client-imposed restrictions upon the audit, restrictions beyond the...

SCRAP VALUE

sales value of scrap. Scrap is residue from manufacturing operations that has relatively minor...

SCROLL

 

movement of the WINDOW up or down relative to the contents of a computer file in...

SEARCH

to seek a particular sequence of characters by working through a file on the screen. It is a...

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