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Coeur d’Alene Business Expense Guide

Coeur d’Alene Business Expense Guide

An ordinary expense is one that is common in your trade or Coeur d’Alene business. A necessary expense is one that is useful and appropriate for your trade or Coeur d’Alene business. The two biggest reasons why you might lose a business expense deduction...
Coeur d’Alene Business General Ledger Defined

Coeur d’Alene Business General Ledger Defined

A book containing a page or more for every account in the Coeur d’Alene business. After a transaction is recorded in the general journal, the components are then transferred or posted to the individual accounts in the general ledger. Thus, at any time someone...
Coeur d’Alene Business Intangible Assets Defined

Coeur d’Alene Business Intangible Assets Defined

Intangible assets are assets that cannot be physically touched. They must still meet the three-part test in order to be listed on the balance sheet as an asset, however, they do not have any tangible characteristics. Do you know what intangible assets you have at your...
Coeur d’Alene Business Expenditures Explained

Coeur d’Alene Business Expenditures Explained

Expenditures are the spending of cash in your Coeur d’Alene business. All expenses are expenditures, but not all expenditures are necessarily expenses. Only expenditures that immediately generate revenue are considered expenses. When expenditures are made for...
Coeur d’Alene Business Bad Debt Expenses Defined

Coeur d’Alene Business Bad Debt Expenses Defined

This expense appears on the income statement and is increased by the amount of the receivable that will not be collected (debt owed to your CDA business that will not be paid). When this expense is created, a contra-asset to accounts receivable is also created called...