LO1 - Corporate Taxable Income Formula * Corps. compute gross income as do other types of business entities * Are allowed to deduct ordinary and necessary business expenditures * Don’t itemize deductions (No need for standard deductions) * No personal or dependency exemptions * Exist to generate income through business activities * Nearly all corporate expenditures create either current or future tax deductions * Corporate taxable income formula is relatively straight forward * Accounting Periods and Methods * Corporations measure their taxable income over a tax year and that their tax year must be the same as their financial accounting year * Generally elect their tax year when they file their first …show more content…
However, they are not allowed to deduct federal income tax expense for tax purposes. * Common Temporary Book-Tax Differences – caused by difference in accounting methods * Depreciation expense (Favorable) - Difference between depreciation expense * Bad debt expense (Unfavorable) – direct write-off method for tax purposes, allowance method for book purposes * Unearned rent revenue (Unfavorable) – rent revenue is taxable on receipt, but recognized when earned for book purposes. * Deferred compensation (unfavorable) – deductible when accrued for book purposes, but deductible when paid for tax purposes if accrued but not paid for 2.5 months after year-end. Also, accrued compensation to shareholders owning more than 50% of the corporation is not deductible until paid. * Organizational expenses and start-up costs (Unfavorable) immediately deducted for book purposes but capitalized and amortized for tax purposes (limited immediate expensing allowed for tax). * Warranty expense and other estimated expenses (Unfavorable) – estimated expenses deducted for book purposes, but actual expenses deducted for tax purposes * UNICAP (S 263A) (Unfavorable) – certain expenditures deducted for book purposes, but capitalized to inventory for tax purposes. Difference reverses when inventory is
Irrelevant Costs, Insurance (General Liability, Physical Damage, Workers Compensation, Health insurance), Security, Depreciation, Salaries Benefits, Bad Debt Expense, Permits, Rental Equipment, Payroll Taxes, Accounting Fees, Supplies, Computer Maintenance, Miscellaneous.
25-7 If a loss cannot be accrued in the period when ti is probable that an asset had been impaired or a liability had been incurred because the amount of loss cannot be reasonable estimated, the loss shall be charged to the income of the period in which the loss can be reasonably estimated and shall not be charged retroactively to an earlier period. All estimated losses for loss contingencies shall be charged to income rather than charging some to income and others to retained earnings as prior period adjustments.”
Some of the operating expenses incurred would be selling, general, and administrative; also research, development, and engineering. They are treated as period costs because as they are accrued or incurred, they are allocated for a designated period an labeled as period costs. Two common examples of period costs are Marketing/Selling and Administrative. Such costs usually occur either after the manufacturing stage or outside the factory.
From the analysis, relevant requirements to CCA are AASB 112 para. 79 and 80 (a), (b), (c) and (e), which require expense components to disclose separately. Also, para. 81(ab), (c(1)), (g) and 82A, regarding separate disclosure of tax consequences of other comprehensive income, numerical representation clarifying the relationship between tax expense and accounting profit, disclosure of amount of deferred tax assets and liabilities in balance sheet and income tax expense in income statement, and potential tax consequences have been followed respectively.
b Ending inventory includes the appropriate Sec. 263A costs, and no further adjustment is needed to properly state cost
If Wainwright uses the direct write-off method to account for uncollectible accounts, journalize the adjusting entry at December 31, assuming Wainwright determines that Hiller’s $900 balance is uncollectible.
Adjusting entries have four types in which provide a method of breaking down transactions. When a business purchases supplies in order to stock, this would be considered a prepaid expense. After an adjusting entry is made for a prepaid expense, the ledger would reflect the correct portion of that expense, in this case supplies, in which was incurred during a specific time. (Editorial Board, 2012, p. 42) A depreciation expense is a sub category of a prepaid expense. This occurs when an asset is allocated over a certain amount of time. An
Fictitious reductions of expenses improve the bottom line on financial statements and can mask true losses and debt. (Crumbley, Heitger and Smith, 2013). An airline has a large fleet of aircraft that require extensive routine maintenance costs. In times of unprofitability, the airline might improve earnings by recording additional upgrades to planes as expenses by deferring losses to future periods. GAAP section 39.200 provides details around how capital assets should be recorded on the balance sheet and the associated depreciation should be recorded (GAAP, 2015).
Expenses follow natural classification or their functional classifications. Property, plant, and equipment acquired by restricted or unrestricted
b. The inventory write down recorded, as an expense by the company is $4.4 million. It is measured at lower of cost and net realizable value. Cost is measured by weighted average using standard cost method or
The largest percentage decrease on Lockheed Martin’s income statement is ‘Other Operating Expense’, or the ‘Other Unallocated’ ac-count. This account includes FAS/CAS adjustment (Non-GAAP pension plans measures specifically allowed to defense contractors and U.S. government agencies), stock-based compensation, and other costs. A positive number here represents an offset between the GAAP FAS pension expense account and the Non-GAAP CAS pension e-pense account, which lowered the cost of pensions payable, as well as a profit in operations other than the five major business segments.
Les Pulaski, the supervisor of a new division of Innovation Corporation, received annual bonus based upon the number of sales that exceeds the breakeven point of the company (Crosson & Needles, 2014). She was given bonus for the mentioned year as well. But, a review of the sales for that year confirmed that 7,500 units were returned by the customer to the company. These returned were included when calculating her bonus. Researching further into this situation, she found out that the returned products were labeled as overhead expense and the cost for the 7,500 units were charged to the overhead account (Crosson & Needles, 2014). Due to this accounting error, it appeared that the sales of the product exceeded the breakeven point
Compute the uncollectible account expense, and make the appropriate journal entry, for the current year assuming the uncollectible account expense is determined as follows:
Property, Plant & Equipment (PPE) (AASB 116): “Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment. Cost includes expenditure that is directly attributable to the acquisition of the item including borrowing costs that are related to the