Profit and Loss Income Statement

Profit and Loss Income Statement

Profit and Loss Income Statement

Am I correct in saying that if a figure appears in brackets in my income statement it refers to a credit?

I think I captured a payment as a deposit received instead of payment made in my cashbook. Learner...

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Credit to Expenses
by: Stephanie

Hi,

Thank you for your question.

Expenses have a normal debit balance and so should show as a positive number on the income statement. Typically numbers shown in brackets are referring to a negative balance and in the case of an expense category this would indeed mean that it has a credit balance rather than a debit balance.

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Profit and Loss Statement Credit Question

Profit and Loss Statement

Profit and Loss Statement

Should credits for your credit card be showing on your profit and loss statement?

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by: Stephanie

A business expense purchase made with your credit card would should show up on the profit and loss statement as an expense. If there was a credit for that expense, it also would show up on your profit and loss statement.

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Profit And Loss Financial Statements

by Peaches De Fraitus
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Profit and Loss Financial Statements

Profit and Loss Financial Statements

Which one asset account will always be carried over from the unadjusted trial balance columns of a work sheet to the balance sheet columns of the work sheet without any adjustments being made to the profit and loss statement?

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Owner Services Affecting The Profit And Loss Statement

by Tom
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Profit and Loss Income Statement

Profit and Loss Income Statement

Hi, I am the owner of a construction corporation.

Being the primary carpenter on the jobs I do, the money I pay myself in Quikbooks Accounting Software is expensed through as follows.

Service performed by subcontractor, then the owner equity account, then the job expense account.

My question though is should this amount reduce the profit and loss statement? Please explain.

Thanks so much, Tom

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Owner Account on Financial Statement
by: Stephanie

Thank you for your question about whether or not owner's draw would show up on the profit and loss statement.

Typically, if you are self employed the payments that you make to yourself would go to owner's draw equity account and would therefore show up on the balance sheet not the profit and loss statement.

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Profit and Loss Statement Account

by Ashu
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Profit and Loss Statement Account

Profit and Loss Statement Account

What will we find in the Profit and Loss Statement Account?

How it is useful for our business?

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What Is On Profit and Loss Statement
by: Stephanie

Thank you for your question about what is found on a profit and loss account.

This is a statement in which you will find out how much money a company is bringing in and expensing out in a particular time frame, usually of a month, quarter or year.

You will see all sales and service income coming in as well as all money going out on cost of goods and overhead expenses such as advertising, rent, supplies, labor, etc..

And you will see the end net result of whether or not you are making money overall, or losing it.

It is useful to be able to see where your money is all coming from as well as where it is going back out to in order to budget.

It will also help you when preparing your income taxes and if you are attempting to get a loan or sell your business.

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Profit And Loss Statement Inventory Valuation

by Assistant Store Mgr

P&L Inventory Valuation

P&L Inventory Valuation

I am an Assistant Store Manager and need a better understanding of what is inventory invaluation?

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P&L Inventory Valuation
by: Stephanie

Did you mean inventory valuation as opposed invaluation? If so, inventory valuation is a process that allows a company to provide a monetary value for items that make up their inventory.

Proper measurment of inventory is necessary to assure accurate financial statements. If inventory is not properly measured, expenses and revenues cannot be properly matched and a company could make poor business decisions.

When you perform an inventory valuation you typically do a physical count of all inventory on hand on a given date and determine what the dollar value of that inventory is.

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Profit and Loss Statement Percent Question

by CHESTA
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Profit and Loss Statement Percent

Profit and Loss Statement Percent

Rohit bought a tape recorder for RS 1,500 and sold it for RS 1,800.

Will you please calculate it's profit and loss percent for me?

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P&L Statement Percent
by: Stephanie

The profit and loss percent for the above transaction can be calculated as follows:

SALE = 1800
COST = 1500
PROFIT = 300
PROFIT PERCENT = 20% (300/1500)

Thank you for your inquiry, Chesta.

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Profit and Loss Statement Profit Sharing

Profit and Loss Statement Profit Sharing

Profit and Loss Statement Profit Sharing

At this time in order for my company to keep track of how much our future contributions are going to be every payroll cycle we put the amount on tallied in Excel into our what we named the virtual account. Is there a better way to keep track of what will be going out at the end of the year, and if so can you please share?

Thank you

Also can you suggest any systems that can help with double bookkeeping both in excel and Quickbooks, or is there no solutions yet, because other places I have worked always used both the accounting system and excel.

My goal is to use just one database.

Thank you again




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Profit and Loss Statement Question

by Anjali
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Profit and Loss Statement

A man bought eggs at Rs 9.60 per dozen. At what price per hundred must he sell them so as to earn a profit of 15%.


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P&L Financial Statement Answer
by: Stephanie

I believe the answer to your question is Rs 92.08, the result shown as follows:

If a man bought eggs at Rs 9.60 per dozen (1 dozen = 12 eggs), then the price he paid per 100 would be 80.07. (100 eggs divided by 12 eggs = 8.34 dozens, 8.34 dozens muliplied by 9.60 per dozen = 80.07).

If the price he paid per 100 is 80.07, in order to earn a profit of 15%, he would need to sell at 92.08 per 100. (80.07 multiplied by 1.15 = 92.08), or (80.07 multiplied by 15% is 12.01 and 80.07 + 12.01 = 92.08).

Thank you for your question, Anjali.

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Profit & Loss Statement Reports

Profit and Loss Statement Report

Profit and Loss Statement Report

Should sales tax collected and paid be shown as an income/expense account on a profit & loss statement?

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Sales Tax Collected
by: Stephanie

Thank you for your question about how sales tax collected and paid should be shown on a financial statement.

An example of how to show sales tax accrued and collected by a paying customer is as follows:

DEBIT 110.00 Checking
CREDIT 10.00 Sales Tax Payable
CREDIT 100.00 Sales

Then when you pay the Sales Tax it would show as:

DEBIT 10.00 Sales Tax Payable
CREDIT 10.00 Checking

So, it would be shown on the Balance Sheet and would not be shown as an income/expense account on the profit and loss.

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P&L Financial Statement Question

by Sadie Burke
(Ireland)

P&L Financial Statement

P&L Financial Statement

From the following information prepare:

1 ) Profit and Loss Appropriation A/C for year ended 31.12.2005

2) Balance Sheet extract as at 31.12.2005 showing Shareholders funds and Capital Employed.


3) Trial Balance as at 31.12.2005, issued ordinary Share Cap €1 each 500,000

4) P & L (credit) Balance 1.1.2005, 40,000

5) General Reserve 25,000

6) Term Loan 10,000


7) Note;

A) Ordinary Share Dividend 8% Declared(proposed) by directors
B) Transfer to General Reserve 15,000
C) Net Profit for year 68,000
D) Calculate Return on Shreholders Funds.
E) Return on Capital Employed.


P & L Appropriation A/C year ended 31.12.2005

ordinary Div 8% 40,000 Bal B/D 40,000
General Reserve 15,000 Balance C/D 53,000 Net profit 68,000, 108,000, Bal B/D 53,000

General Reserve A/C Bal B/D 25,000
P&L Appropriation A/C 15,000 Bal C/D 40,000 Bal B/D 40,000 40,000 Bal B/D 40,000

Balance Sheet year ended 31.12.2005
Current Liabilities
Ordinary Share Dividend 40,000

financed by:
Share Capital 367,000

reserves:
General Reserve 40,000

retained Profits P&L A/C 53,000 93,000

Shareholders Funds 460,000

Term Loan 10,000
470,000

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Sample Profit and Loss Statement on Excel Worksheet

Sample Profit and Loss Excel Worksheet

Sample Profit and Loss Excel Worksheet

How can I get a sample of a profit and loss statement on an excel worksheet as a example?


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Sample Profit and Loss Excel Worksheet
by: Stephanie

Thank you for your question about how you can get a sample of a Profit and loss statement on an excel worksheet.

You can find the sample excel P&L statement worksheet template here

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The Profit and Loss Statement

The Profit and Loss Statement

The Profit and Loss Statement

Hi everyone

1) We are working on the Profit and Loss and only changing the BUDGETED revenue and BUDGETED Net Profit figure

The current Budgeted Revenue and Budged Net Profit figure is as follows:

Current Budgeted Revenue : 200
Current Budgeted Profit: 160

His request is to:

increase revenue number to PLUS70 on the profit target

All we are looking at is adjusting the BUDGETED Figures. Actuals per the P&L will be compared to the above budgeted figures.

What do I need to do - do I just increase both revenue and net profit by 70K.

(I know I sound ignorant, but never went to work for him as a bookkeeper!!

We do not sell anything in terms of fixed goods. It is simply revenue in terms of our time charged to external parties.

Hopefully that helps. Again - I appreciate the time and effort you have all given to me. I am sorry I did not make myself clear to you. I have asked him for an explanation and was told that it is obvious what I have to do and need to deliver by Monday!

Thanks again - hopefully I will be able to help you all out.

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Zero Income Big Expenses on Profit and Loss Statement

by Robert
(Vermont)

Income and Expense on Profit and Loss

Income and Expense on Profit and Loss

I am a singer-songwriter. I didn't earn any money in 2010 but had a lot of expenses due to traveling and recording sessions. Can these expenses be deducted in future years?

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