Accounting II Flashcards
UCC
Uniform Commercial Code
Promissory note
written promise to pay a certain amount of money at a specific future time.
Interest
fee charged for the use of money.
Interest = Principal x Rate x Time
Banker’s year
360 day period
Principal
Amount shown on the face of a note.
Face Value (face amount)
- An amount of money indicated to be paid, exclusive of interest or discount.
Maturity Value
- the total amount (principal plus interest) that must be paid when a note comes due.
Note Payable
- a liability that represents a written promise by the maker of the note (the debtor) to pay another party (the creditor) a specified amount at a specified future date.
Discounting
- deducting the interest in advance from the principal on a note payable
Note Receivable
- an asset that represents a creditor’s written promise to pay a specified amount at a specified future date.
Draft
- a written order that requires one party (a person or business) to pay a stated sum of money to another party.
ex. a check
Bank draft
- check written by a bank that orders another bank to pay the stated amount to a specific party.
Cashier’s check
- draft on the issuing bank’s own funds.
Commercial draft
- note issued by one party that orders another party to pay a specified amount on a specified date.
- sight draft or time draft
Sight draft
- commercial draft that is payable on presentation.
Bill of lading
- business document that lists the goods accepted for transportation by a carrier.
Interest expense
- Non-operating expense
- “Other income and Expense” on Income Statement
Discount period
- period from the date the note is taken to the bank to be discounted (or sold) & continues on to the maturity date.
Contingent liability
- an item that can become a liability if certain future events happen.
Physical Inventory
- actual count of the number of units of each type of good on hand
Periodic Inventory
- amount of goods on hand is determined by periodic counts
Perpetual Inventory
- inventory is based on a running total number of units.
Specific Identification Method
- valuation is based on the actual cost of each item of merchandise
Average Cost Method
- average cost of units of an item available for sale during the period to arrive at the value of ending inventory.
- Weighted average Method
First In, First Out method
- assumes that the oldest merchandise is sold first.
* FIFO
Last In, First Out method
- most recently purchased merchandise is sold first, and thus assigns the most recent costs to cost of goods sold.
- LIFO
Market Price
- rice the business would have to pay to buy an item of inventory through usual channels in usual quantities.
- Replacement Cost
Lower of cost or market rule
- inventory is reported at its original cost or its replacement cost, whichever is lower.
- by item, in total, or by group.
Gross Profit Method
- rate of gross profit on sales and the ratio of cost of goods sold to net sales are relatively constant from period to period.
Retail Method
- estimates inventory cost by applying the ratio of cost to selling price in the current accounting period to the retail price of the inventory.
Markon
- difference between the cost and the initial retail price of merchandise.
Markups
- price increases above the original markons
Markdowns
- price reductions below the original markon
Real Property
- consists of land, land improvements (such as sidewalks and parking lots), buildings, and other structures attached to the land.
Tangibile Personal Property
- machinery, equipment, furniture, and fixtures that can be removed and used elsewhere.
Capitalized Cost
- all costs recorded as part of the asset’s cost.
Salvage, Residual, or scrap value
- estimate of the amount that could be obtained from an asset’s sale or disposition at the end of its useful life.
Net salvage value
- salvage value of the asset less any costs to remove or sell it.
Declining-balance Method
- book value of an asset at the beginning of the year is multiplied by a percentage to determine depreciation for the year.
Accelerated method of depreciation
- allocates greater amounts of depreciation to an asset’s early years of useful life.
Double-declining-balance method
- uses a rate equal to twice the straight-line rate and applies that rate to the book value of the asset at the beginning of the year.
Sum of the year’s digits method
- a fractional part of the asset cost is charged to expense each year. The denominator (the bottom part) of the fraction is always the “sum of the years’ digits.”
Units of output method
- calculates depreciation at the same rate for each unit produced.
Income tax method
- trade-in transactions are easier than those for financial accounting because neither gain nor loss is recognized for tax purposes.
Depletion
- cost of the natural resource to expense over the period in which the resource produces revenue.
Intangible assets
- assets that lack a physical substance.
Patent
- exclusive right given by the U.S. Patent Office to manufacture and sell an invention for a period of 17 years from the date the patent is granted.
Copyright
- exclusive right granted by the federal government to produce, publish, and sell a literary or artistic work for a period equal to the creator’s life plus 70 years.
Goodwill
- value of a business in excess of the value of its identifiable assets.
Amortization
- periodic transfer of intangible’s cost to expense
Unlimited Liability
- a partner’s personal assets as well as the partnership’s assets can be required in payment of the firm’s debts.
Limited Partners
- liable only for their investment in the partnership.