No matter how strong internal controls over financial reporting are, the auditor could not rely 100% on those internal controls by ignoring substantive tests. For our company with $500,000, the cash ledger may report that $5,000 is kept onsite for pe...
If discrepancies exist, the process of matching each transaction to its respective accounting entry is automatically performed. The process finds all transactions and accounting entries that contributed to the out of balance situation. As a prerequis...
Typically, if your lease is terminated as opposed to being amended to include the new landlord, then you would need to remove the deferred rent account from the balance sheet. In order to do so, you would need to debit the deferred rent account to el...
The straight line depreciation method gives you a realistic picture of your business’s profit margin using long-term assets. Straight line depreciation can be calculated on assets such as manufacturing equipment, vehicles, office furniture, computers...
By making regular, scheduled payments on time, the loan or mortgage will be paid off by a maturity date. At the end of year one, you have made 12 payments, most of the payments have been towards interest, and only $3,406 of the principal is paid off,...