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  2. How Accounts Payable Are Recorded on a Balance Sheet - AOL

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    Accounts payable appear on the balance sheet as current liabilities. Accounts payable are considered a liability because they represent a purchase made on credit instead of cash. Although the ...

  3. Debits and credits - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, in the liability account below, the X in the credit column denotes the increasing effect on the liability account balance (total credits less total debits), because a credit to a liability account is an increase. All "mini-ledgers" in this section show standard increasing attributes for the five elements of accounting.

  4. Accrued liabilities - Wikipedia

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    Examples would include accrued wages payable, accrued sales tax payable, and accrued rent payable. There are two general types of Accrued Liabilities: Routine and recurring; Infrequent or non-routine; Routine and recurring Accrued Liabilities are types of transactions that occur as a normal, daily part of the business cycle. [2]

  5. Adjusting entries - Wikipedia

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    When this cash is paid, it is first recorded in a prepaid expense asset account; the account is to be expensed either with the passage of time (e.g. rent, insurance) or through use and consumption (e.g. supplies). A company receiving the cash for benefits yet to be delivered will have to record the amount in an unearned revenue liability ...

  6. Accounting equation - Wikipedia

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    The accounting equation plays a significant role as the foundation of the double-entry bookkeeping system. The primary aim of the double-entry system is to keep track of debits and credits and ensure that the sum of these always matches up to the company assets, a calculation carried out by the accounting equation.

  7. Accounting for leases in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under an operating lease, the lessee records rent expense over the lease term, and a credit to either cash or rent payable. If an operating lease has scheduled changes in rent, normally the rent must be expensed on a straight-line basis over its life, with a deferred liability or asset reported on the balance sheet for the difference between ...

  8. Available Balance vs. Current Balance in a Bank Account ... - AOL

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    If you forgot that you set up an automatic withdrawal for your car insurance ($100) and electric bill ($200), you will be surprised when you see a negative balance in the account or get a notice ...

  9. Normal balance - Wikipedia

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    By convention, one of these is the normal balance type for each account according to its category. Asset and expense accounts have a normal debit balance, while liability, equity and income accounts have a normal credit balance. [1] Generally a normal balance is shown in statements as a positive number and an abnormal