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Lecture 3 Adjusting the Accounts Time Period Assumption: an Assumption Lecture 3 Adjusting the accounts Time period assumption: An assumption that the economic life of a business can be divided into artificial time period. The time period assumption is called the periodicity assumption. Fiscal year : An accounting time period that is one year in length is a fiscal year. A fiscal year usually begins with the first day of a month and ends twelve months later on the last day of a month Accounting time periods are generally a month, a quarter, or a year. Monthly and quarterly time periods are called interim periods. Most large companies must prepare both quarterly and annual financial statements. Calendar year: An accounting period that extends from January 1 to December 31 is called the calendar year Accrual basis accounting : Under the accrual basis, companies record transactions that change a company’s financial statements in the periods in which the events occur. Under the accrual basis, revenues and expenses are recorded when they are earned, regardless of when the money is actually received or paid. This method is more commonly used than the cash method. Cash basis accounting: Under cash-basis accounting, companies record revenue when they receive cash. They record an expense when they pay out cash. The cash basis seems appealing due to its simplicity, but it often produces misleading financial statements. It fails to record revenue that a company has earned but for which it has not received the cash. Also, it does not match expenses with earned revenues. Cash-basis accounting is not in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Individuals and some small companies do use cash-basis accounting. The cash basis is justified for small businesses because they often have few receivables and payables. Medium and large companies use accrual-basis accounting. 1 Recognizing Revenues and Expenses It can be difficult to determine the amount of revenues and expenses to report in a given accounting period. Two principles help in this task: the revenue recognition principle and the matching principle. A)REVENUE RECOGNITION PRINCIPLE The revenue recognition principle refers that companies recognize revenue in the accounting period in which it is earned. In a service enterprise, revenue is considered to be earned at the time the service is performed B)MATCHING PRINCIPLE The Matching Principle states that all expenses must be matched in the same accounting period as the revenues they helped to earn. In practice, matching is a combination of accrual accounting and the revenue recognition principle 2 GAAP relationships in revenue and expense recognition The basic of adjusting entries : In order for revenues and expenses to be reported in the correct period, companies make adjusting entries at the end of the accounting period. Adjusting entries ensure that the revenue recognition and matching principles are followed. Adjusting entries make it possible to report correct amounts on the balance sheet and on the income statement Types of Adjusting Entries Adjusting entries are classified as either deferrals or accruals. each of these classes has two sub categories Adjusting Entries for Deferrals Deferrals are either prepaid expenses or unearned revenues. 3 Prepaid expense : Expense paid in cash and recorded as asset before they are used or consumed. Prepaid expenses are future expenses that have been paid in advance. At each statement date , adjusting entries are made two purposes- a)To record the expense that apply to the current accounting period b)To show the unexpired costs in the asset accounts. Unearned Revenue : Cash received and recorded as liabilities before revenue is earned. Unearned revenues are earned by providing service to a customer . Depreciation: According to the matching principle, a portion of the cost of a long lived asset should be reported as an expense during each period of the asset's useful life. Depreciation is the allocation of the cost of an asset to expense over its useful life in a rational & systematic manner. The need for periodic adjusting entries for depreciation is same as prepaid expense These entries recognize the cost that has been used(an expense) during the period and report the unexpired cost (an asset) at the end of the period. Adjusting Entries for Accruals The second category of adjusting entries is accruals. Companies make adjusting entries for accruals to record revenues earned and expenses incurred in the current accounting period that have not been recognized through daily entries ACCRUED REVENUES Revenues earned but not yet recorded at the statement date are accrued revenues. ACCRUED EXPENSES Expenses incurred but not yet paid or recorded at the statement date are accrued expenses. 4 summary of adjusting entries 5 .
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