Because Income and Expense Accounts Are Reduced to Zero at the End

question 31

Short Answer

Because income and expense accounts are reduced to zero at the end of the year they are known as t ____________ accounts.

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Definitions:

Sequential Method

A process approach where tasks or operations are performed one after another in a specific order.

ABC

Activity-Based Costing, a method of assigning overhead and indirect costs to specific products or activities based on their use of resources.

Step-Down Method

A method of allocating support department costs to production departments that considers some inter-support-department services in a sequential or step-down fashion. Also known as the sequential method.

Direct Method

A method of preparing the cash flow statement where major classes of gross cash receipts and payments are disclosed.