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Adjusting entries and Communication
Renee Koehler
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Kimberly Burleson
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Adjusting entries and Communication
“Adjusting entries can be thought of as quality control tools that help keep a company’s accounting in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)”. Their purpose is to ensure that revenue is accurately reported with respect to the period in which it has been earned, not just invoiced or collected, and that expenses are reported according to the period in which they have been incurred, regardless of when they were paid (Russo, 2023, section 3). There are several types of adjusting entries that accountants utilize including accrued revenue, allowance for doubtful accounts, prepaid expenses, unearned revenue, accrued expenses, and depreciation.
“Depreciation is the allocation of the cost of tangible assets, such as property, plant, and equipment” (Wahlen et al., 2016, pp. 11–2). “Equipment includes assets such as servers and networking equipment, heavy equipment, and other fulfillment equipment. Depreciation and amortization is recorded on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets (generally the lesser of 40 years or the remaining life of the underlying building, four years prior to January 1, 2022, and five years subsequent to January 1, 2022 for our servers, five years prior to January 1, 2022 and six years subsequent to January 1, 2022 for our networking equipment, ten years for heavy equipment, and three to ten years for other fulfillment equipment). Depreciation and amortization expense is classified with the corresponding operating expense categories on our consolidated statements of operations (Jassy, 2023, p. 47). Amazon uses straight-line depreciation, a method that recognizes the same amount of depreciation expense each year. Straight-line depreciation
allocates an equal amount of an asset’s depreciable cost to depreciation expense for each period of the asset’s service life and is calculated as follows:
Figure 1:
Straight-line Depreciation Equation
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