ACCT-311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Income Statement

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(b) liabilities: the balance sheet reports direct delivery"s liabilities as of the date noted in the heading of the balance sheet. Liabilities are obligations of the company; they are amounts owed to others as of the balance sheet date. For example, suppose that direct delivery enters into an agreement with one of its customers stipulating that the customer prepays in return for the delivery of 30 parcels every month for 6 months. Assume direct delivery receives that payment on december 1 for deliveries to be made between december 1 and may 31. Direct delivery has a cash receipt of on december 1, but it does not have revenues of at this point. It will have revenues only when it earns them by delivering the parcels. Each month, as the 30 parcels are delivered, direct delivery will be earning , and as a result, each month moves from the account.

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