ACCT 1201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Accounts Receivable, Accounting Period, Asset
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Ch. 3 operating decisions and the income statement : operating cycle. The time it takes for a company to pay cash to suppliers, sell goods and services to customer, and collect cash from customers: time period assumption. The long life of a company can be reported in shorter time periods. Increase in assets or settlements of liabilities from ongoing operations. Result from the sale of goods or services: operating expenses, expenditure. Cost of goods sold: what company had to give up to make the product. Depreciation expense: cost of long-term asset spread over a long term: expenses. Decreases in assets or increases in liabilities from ongoing operations incurred to generate revenues during the period. While not all cash expenditures are expenses, expenses are necessary to generate revenues: other items, investment income (investment, interest, dividend revenue, interest expense, gains (or losses) on sales of assets, income tax expense. Revenues (inflows of net assets from normal ongoing operations)