Bookkeeping

How to Calculate Variable Cost per Unit

How to Calculate Variable Cost per Unit

Gross profit is your income or sales less cost of goods sold (COGS), which are all fixed costs (above the line on your income statement). Contribution margin analyzes sales less variable costs, such as commissions, supplies and other back office expe...
Price to Tangible Book Value Definition

Price to Tangible Book Value Definition

Deduct the liabilities from the assets and divide the same by the no of shares issued by the Company. The book value of a business is found by subtracting its total liabilities from its total assets. Generally, businesses are instead valued at market...
Adjusting Entry for Bad Debts Expense
Contra Asset

Contra Asset

The allowance for doubtful accounts is a contra-asset account that is associated with accounts receivable and serves to reflect the true value of accounts receivable. The amount represents the value of accounts receivable that a company does not expe...
The vertical balance sheet

The vertical balance sheet

The amounts from five years earlier are presented as 100% or simply 100. The amounts from the most recent years will be divided by the base year amounts. For instance, if a most recent year amount was three times as large as the base year, the most r...