The Payment of Salaries to Employees for Wages of the Current

question 63

Multiple Choice

The payment of salaries to employees for wages of the current period would:

• A)increase owner's equity and decrease liabilities.
• B)increase net income and decrease assets.
• C)decrease assets and owner's equity.
• D)increase assets and decrease owner's equity.

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Definitions:

Research Costs

Expenses related to the investigation and discovery of new knowledge that could be useful for the development of new products or services.

Units-Of-Production Method

A depreciation method that allocates an asset’s cost based on its usage, productivity, or units produced, rather than the passage of time.

Double Declining-Balance Method

A method of accelerated depreciation that doubles the straight-line depreciation rate, reducing the asset's book value more quickly in its early years.

Double Declining Balance

An accelerated method of depreciation which doubles the rate at which an asset is depreciated compared to the straight-line method.