Tag: Cost of Sales
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Bookkeeping – Estimating Employee Benefits (Lesson 84)
Employee benefits consist of vacation, sick time, retirement benefits, healthcare and other de minimus benefits. As a function of accrual accounting these benefits are estimated and posted as a deferred liability in the accrued payroll section of the current liabilities section of the balance sheet. This lesson explains how to calculate the respective benefits and…
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P&L Statement – Best Format for Salons
An owner of a hair salon needs a well organized and properly formatted profit and loss statement (income statement) to properly evaluate performance. There are multiple presentation formats used in the service industry, but after 25 years of accounting I advocate for the functional presentation arrangement. This form of a profit and loss statement allows…
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Bookkeeping – Various Terms (Lesson 26)
In the previous 25 lessons I covered a lot of different terms and this lesson is merely a summary of the various terms a bookkeeper encounters.
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Bookkeeping – Proper Income Statement Presentation (Lesson 21)
The income statement presents information over a period of time. This time period is referred to as an accounting cycle.
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Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Parenthesis with the Profit and Loss Statement (Lesson 14)
Both contra and atypical values are reported with parenthesis. The same presentation format is used when reporting contra and atypical values on the profit and loss statement (income statement).
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Business Dynamics of Hauling
One of the industries in the transportation sector is materials hauling. This is your dump truck industry. All of us see these trucks out on the highway usually hauling gravel or dirt. To profit well, efficiency is the primary business principle. Lack of efficiency drives up fuel costs, loss of time in hauling; increased maintenance and repairs, and finally…
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Bookkeeping – Debits and Credits in Cost of Sales Accounts (Lesson 7)
The Purchases Journal keeps track of the entries related to the cost of sales (cost of goods sold) accounts.
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Bookkeeping – Account Types (Lesson 1)
To fully grasp the concept of accounting a bookkeeper must accept that there are six (6) different types of accounts. All the reports, ledgers, journals and entries revolve around these six types of accounts.
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Cost of Sales – Various Formats
Many business owners misunderstand the use of term ‘Cost of Sales’ by restricting it to just simply ‘Cost of Goods Sold’. Basically, most business entrepreneurs and even accountants don’t realize that it has several different names and presentation formats. But it is essentially costs of sales.