During the First Year of Operations, a Company Granted Warranties

question 130

True/False

During the first year of operations, a company granted warranties on its products. The estimated cost of the product warranty liability at the end of the year is $8,500. The product warranty expense of $8,500 should be recorded in the years of the expenditures to repair the products covered by the warranty payments.

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Definitions:

Liability Account

An account on the balance sheet representing amounts owed to creditors or other parties, typically categorized as current or long-term.

Adjusting Entry

A journal entry made in accounting records to correct or allocate revenues and expenses to the appropriate period.

Wages Expense

This is the total amount of wages a company pays to its employees, which is considered an expense on the income statement.

Accrued Wages

Refers to wages earned by employees but not yet paid by the employer.