ACCT 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dry Cleaning, The Need, Uptodate

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Expense recognition principle: accountants follow a simple rule in recognizing expenses: let the expenses follow the revenues. thus, expense recognition is tied to revenue recognition. In the dry cleaning example, this means that dave"s should report the salary expense incurred in performing the june 30 cleaning service in the same period in which it recognizes the service revenue. The critical issue in expense recognition is when the expense makes its contribution to revenue. This may or may not be the same period in which the expense is paid. If dave"s does not pay the salary incurred on june 30 until july, it would report salaries payable on its june 30 balance sheet: this practice of expense recognition is referred to as the expense recognition principle. It requires that companies recognize expenses in the period in which they make efforts (consume assets or incur liabilities) to generate revenue.

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