ACC 406 Lecture 2: ACC406 2

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Cost is the amount of cash or cash equivalent sacrificed for goods and/or services that are expected to bring current or future benefits to the organization. Cost is a dollar measure of the resource used to achieve a given benefit: costs are incurred to produce future benefits, which usually mean revenues. As costs are used up in the production of revenues, they are said to expire. On the income statement, expenses are deducted from revenues to determine income, or profit: the revenue per unit is called the price. Price must be greater than cost in order for the firm to earn income. Accumulating costs is the way that costs are measured and recorded, and the accounting system typically does this job quite well. If a telephone bill is received the bookkeeper records an addition to the telephone expense account and an addition to the liability account, accounts payable.

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