Category Archives: Bookkeeping

5 1 Describe and Prepare Closing Entries for a Business Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial Accounting

Now that the journal entries are prepared and posted, you are almost ready to start next year. Remember, modern computerized accounting systems go through this process in preparing financial statements, but the system does not actually create or post journal entries. It’s worth noting that a profitable company as shown in the income statement may […]

IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements

These adjustments ensure that the financial statements reflect only realized gains and losses from external transactions. In practice, while consolidated financial statements share the structural framework with their unconsolidated (separate) counterparts, they serve distinct purposes and provide different levels of detail. Consolidated accounting brings together financial aspects like revenue, expenses, cash flows, liabilities, profits, and […]

Contribution Margin CM Formula + Calculator

The contribution margin is the amount of revenue in excess of variable costs. One way to express it is on a per-unit basis, such as standard price (SP) per unit less variable cost per unit. Management uses the contribution margin in several different forms to production and pricing decisions within the business. Step 2 of […]