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Accruals and Deferrals:
Timing is Everything in Accounting
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More About Accruals
Accrual Accounting: Recording the financial transactions of a business in the period in which they occur, rather than in the period in which cash is exchanged.
The economic substance of the transaction signals the recording…not disbursing or receiving cash.
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Examples of Accrual Events
Sales made “on account” Purchases made “on credit” Wages expense for employees
» when they’ve worked but you haven’t yet paid them
Interest on money borrowed or lent» when time has passed (so interest has been
earned by the lender) but the actual cash for the interest has not changed hands
Income tax expense» when you owe it but haven’t yet paid the IRS
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Accounts Receivable:Amounts owed by customers for goods and services received
Recognition of event versus realization of cash recognizing a revenue or expense means to
record it in the accounting records so that it shows up on the income statement
When is revenue recognized? when the amounts are earned (required
activities are complete) Realization means you actually get the cash.
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Accounts Payable:Amounts you owe creditors for the purchase of goods and services
When are costs recognized as expenses? when the “matching”
revenue is recognized, or
when the benefits of the expenditures are received
INVOICE
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Accruals that need to be made before the financial statements are prepared --adjustments to the “books”
1. Any revenue earned that has not been billed (no receivable has been recorded)
2. Any interest revenue that has been earned on investments that has not been recorded
3. Any expense that has been incurred (used) but has not been recorded (a common one is salary expense)
4. Income tax expense incurred but not recorded
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Revenue that needs to be accrued
Work that has been completed -- but nothing has been recorded for the financial statements. This situation arises when
a customer has not been billed yet has not paid
Computerization of record-keeping has made this situation less frequent
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Example: 1. Revenue to be accrued
An employee of Maids-R-Us finished cleaning a house on January 31, but didn’t get the paperwork into the office in time to get it included in the January records.
An income statement for January must include the revenue because it has been earned.
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Accruing Revenue
Accruing revenue affects the accounting equation in the following way:
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings
+ A/R + Revenue
Income Statement: Statement of Changes in Equity: Statement of Cash Flows:
Increases income
Increases equity
No effect on cash flows
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What happens when the customer pays?
When the customer pays, the accounting equation is affected on the asset side only. A/R is decreased by the
amount of the payment Cash is increased by the
amount of the payment The revenue has already
been recognized.
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2. Accruing Interest (Revenue or expense)
The most common accrual is for interest--the cost of borrowing money. If you loaned the money or purchased a CD,
you’d be dealing with interest revenue. If you borrowed the money, you’d be dealing
with interest expense.
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Interest Revenue
You have a 6-month, Rs100 CD that earns 12%, (always given as an annual rate), purchased on January 1.
The natural recording of this interest revenue will happen when you receive the money.
An income statement for January needs to show the amount of interest revenue for January.
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Accruing Interest Revenue
Interest = principal x rate x time Interest = Rs100 x .12 x 1/12 =
Rs1 Since the rate is “per year,” the time has
to be given in terms of a year.
Interest receivable and interest revenue will each be Rs1. Show how that keeps the accounting equation in balance.
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Accruing Interest Revenue
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings
+1 interest +1 interest receivable
revenue
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
Increases income
Increases equity
No effect on cash flow
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3. An Expense to be Accrued
Salary expense is a common expense that needs to be accrued before financial statements are prepared.
Suppose employees work five days per week and are paid every Friday, but January 31 falls on a Tuesday.
The salary expense for the week from January 30 to February 3 will not be paid until Friday, February 3.
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Accruing Salary Expense
The income statement for January should have the expense for January 30 and 31, while the February income statement will have the expense for February 1, 2, and 3.
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Accruing Salary Expense
Suppose a week’s payroll is Rs5,000. On January 31, the company should accrue
Rs2,000 worth of salary expense. i.e., 2 out of 5 days’ worth of the salary must be
a January expense. How is this reflected in the accounting
equation?
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Accruing Salary Expense
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings
+ 2,000 salaries (2,000) salary payable expense
Income Statement (Jan.): Statement of Changes in Equity: Statement of Cash Flows:
Decreases income
Decreases equity
No effect on cash flows
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Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings
(5,000) cash (2000) salaries (3000) salary payable expense
What happens when the salaries are actually paid to the employees on Friday, February 3?
• Income Statement (for Feb!): • Statement of Changes in Equity: • Statement of Cash Flows:
Decreases incomeDecreases equity
Operating cash outflow
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4. Taxes to be accrued
Tax expense is a common expense that needs to be accrued when financial statements are prepared.
The income statement for January needs to include the income taxes for January, even though they will not be paid until several months later.
WHY??
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What is a Deferral?
A deferral event occurs when cash is received or paid before revenue is earned or an expense is incurred.
Deferral events are a part of the accrual basis of accounting
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Deferred Revenue
You’ve received payment for something you have NOT yet provided.
Dollars first, action later. Revenue is not recognized
until the service is performed or the goods are delivered...but you have to record the fact that you have received the cash.
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Example of deferred revenue:
A publishing company collects money for magazine subscriptions before the magazines are actually delivered.
What is exchanged? Cash is received but the give part will come later.
In the meantime, the company has an obligation--a liability. (The company gives a promise of future delivery of magazines.)
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How does receiving a payment in advance affect the accounting equation?
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings
+ cash + unearned revenue
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
No effect
No effect
Operating cash flows
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What happens when the service is finally performed or the goods are delivered?
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings
+ cash - unearned revenue
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
Increases income
Increases equity
No effect on cash flows
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Deferred Expenses
Prepaid ExpensesRentInsuranceSupplies
You’ve paid the cash “up-front” but you haven’treceived the goods or services yet.
paid in advance
Remember: DEFER means to postpone.
Here, we postpone recognizing the expense until we actually use the goods or services.
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Deferred Expenses
Depreciation of plant and equipment
Recognizing an expenditureby spreading it over several years, allocating a part of theexpense to each of several periods during which the assetis used:
A special deferral--depreciation:
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PREPAID RENT
Often companies pay rent in advance. When the cash is paid, the company
has purchased an asset called prepaid rent.
Dollars first--action later. What’s the action that triggers
recognition of the expense?Passing of the time to which the rent applies.
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How does paying the rent in advance affect the accounting equation?
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings
+ prepaid rent
+ cash Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
Decreases income
Decreases equity
Operating Cash Outflows
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The expense is recorded when the time of the rent has passed – when it’s been used up.Usually it’s an adjustment, made when the financial
statements are being prepared.
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings
- Prepaid rent - rent expense
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
Decreases income
Decreases equity
No effect on cash flow
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PREPAID INSURANCE
Often companies pay insurance in advance.
When the cash is paid, the company has purchased an asset called prepaid insurance.
Dollars first--action later. What’s the action that triggers recognition
of the expense?Passing of the time to which the insurance applies.
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How does paying for the insurance in advance affect the accounting equation?
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings + prepaid insurance - cash
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
No effect
No effect
Operating cash outflow
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The expense is recorded when the time to which the insurance applies has passed--when it’s been used up. Usually it’s an adjustment, made when the financial statements are being prepared.
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings- prepaid - insurance expenseinsurance
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
Decreases income
Decreases equity
No effect on cash flow
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BUYING SUPPLIES
Companies purchase supplies to be used later.
When the cash is paid, the company has purchased an asset called supplies. Sometimes they are called supplies-on-hand to differentiate them from supplies expense (used).
Dollars first--action later. What’s the action that triggers
recognition of the expense?Actually using the supplies.
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How does buying the supplies in advance affect the accounting equation?
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings + supplies - cash
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
No effect
No effect
Operating cash outflow
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The expense is recorded when supplies are used.
Assets = Liab. + Cont. Cap. + Retained Earnings- supplies - supplies expense
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
Decreases income
Decreases equity
No effect on cash flow
Usually, supplies-on-hand are counted at the end of the period, and an adjustment is made to get the amount of the remaining asset correct for the balance sheet.
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DEPRECIATION
When a company buys an asset that is used up in the business (i.e., they didn’t buy it to resell it) AND it will be useful for more than one year, GAAP says that the expense must be spread over the accounting periods during the useful life of the asset.
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DEPRECIATION
The portion of the cost of an asset allocated to any one accounting period--
DEPRECIATION EXPENSE Depreciation of an asset is
an allocation process--spreading
the cost of an asset that benefits more than one accounting period over the estimated useful life of the asset.
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Example of Depreciation
ABC Co. bought a satellite dish for Rs5,000. The asset is expected to last five years and have no salvage value at the end of its useful life. How will the purchase and use of the asset affect the financial statements?
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Purchase of the asset: How does it affect the financial statements?
+5,000 satellite dish
(5,000) cash
Income Statement: no effect Statement of Changes in Equity: no effect Statement of Cash Flows: Rs5,000
investing activity cash outflow
Assets = Liabilities + CC + RE
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We want to allocate the cost of the asset to the income statement as an expense during the time period we use the asset.
If we depreciate the asset using the STRAIGHT LINE method, we will divide the cost of the asset (minus any estimated salvage value) by the useful life: Rs5,000/5 = Rs1,000 each year.
USE OF THE ASSET
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Use of the asset: How does it affect the financial statements?
(1,000) (1,000)
reduces the asset expense
Assets = Liabilities + CC + RE
Income Statement:
Statement of Changes in Equity:
Statement of Cash Flows:
Reduces income
Reduces equity
No effect on cash flow
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Use of the asset: How does it affect the financial statements?
Each year for five years, we will reduce the asset’s value on the balance sheet by Rs1,000.
Each year for five years, we will have an expense of Rs1,000 on the income statement.
Instead of netting out the subtracted amount on the balance sheet, we will always show the original cost and then the amount of the total reduction. That amount is called accumulated depreciation and it is a contra-asset.
The expense is called depreciation expense.
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