Preferred shares sometimes have par values that are more than marginal, but most common shares today have par values of just a few pennies. Because of this, "additional paid-in capital" tends to be essentially representative of the total paid-in capi...
It increases understanding of overheads and cost drivers; and makes costly and non-value adding activities more visible, allowing managers to reduce or eliminate them. ABC enables effective challenge of operating costs to find better ways of allocati...
Now, what I did though is I wrote that investment up through OCI. It's a fair value through OCI, and I now have a balance and accumulated other comprehensive income of $15 attributable to this investment. I'm going to reclassify that gain by debiting...
If this derecognition were not completed, a company would gradually build up a large amount of gross fixed asset cost and accumulated depreciation on its balance sheet. Accumulated depreciation is an asset account with a credit balance known as a lon...
It also gives them an idea of the amount of depreciation costs the company will recognize in the future. A lot of people confusedepreciationexpense with actually expensing an asset. Fixed assets are capitalized when they are purchased and reported on...