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70% Off for 3 Months Buy Now & Articles What Goos on an Income Statement? An income statement, also called a profit and loss statement, lists a business's revenues, expenses and overall profit or loss for a specific period of time. An income statement reports the following line items: + Sales: jevenue generated from the sale of goods and services, ‘+ Cost of Goods Sold: Including labor and material co: ‘+ Gross Profit: The cost of goods sold subtracted from sales + General and Administrative Expenses: Includes rent, utilities, salary, et. ‘+ Earnings Before Tax: Your business's pre-tax income ‘+ Net Income: The total revenue minus total expenses, which gives the profit or loss, ‘The end goal ofthe income statements to show a business's net income fora specific reporting period. f the net income isa positive number, the business reports a profit. If it’s a negative numbor, the business reports a loss. What Goos on a Balance Shoot? A balance sheet reports a business's assets, liabilities and equity ata specific point in time. A balance sheets broken into two main sections: assets on one side and liabilities and equity on the other side. The balance sheet formats require the two sides must balance ‘out, meaning they should be equal to one another, It reports the following line items: + Current Assets: Assets that willbe converted to cash within a year, including accounts receivable, inventory and prepaid expenses ‘+ Long-Term Assets: Assets that won't be converted to cash within a year, including land, buildings and equipment + Current ies: Debts owed within a year, including rent, utilities, taxes and payrol + Long-Term Liabiliti : Long-term business loans, pension fund liabilities + Shareholders Equity: A business's net assets, including money generated by the business and donated capital ‘+ Amortization Expenses: Those are also called depreciation expenses, and account for any long-term assets over the life span of their use (such as cars or exaensive technology) ‘+ Account Balances: The amount of money that s in your financial accounts at any given time, after debits and credits have been accounted ot This includes any long term saving accounts or checking accounts, ‘The balance sheet tells you what your business owns and what it owes to others on a specific date. It gives a snapshot ofthe business's overall worth, What is a Balance Sheet? How Do You Prepare a Balance Sheet from an Income Statement? [A business's financial statements are all interconnected and they report some of the same information, but for different purposes. Because some of your financial statements draw from data reported on other statements, there's a particular order you should follow when preparing them, which is why we have prepared the following financial statement example: Income Statement 2. Balance Sheet 3. Cash Flow Statement To prepare a balance sheet, you need to calculate net income. Net incomes the final calculation included on the income statement, showing how much prafit o loss the business generated during the reporting period. Once you've prepared your income statement, you ccan use the net income figure to start creating your balance sheet, Using a balance sheet template will streamline the next step ofthe process, so that you don't have to manually insert all ofthe fields yourself, This isa vital step towards understanding the core strength of a company, and to assess the business performance. (On the balance sheet, the balance sheet. jet income appears in the retained earnings line item. Net income affects how much equity a business reports on ‘The Relationship Between Income Statement and Balance Sheet In double-entry bookkeeping, the income statement and balance sheet are closely related. Double-entry bookkeeping invalves making two separate entries for every business transaction recorded. One of these entries appears on the income statement and the other appears on the balance sheet. ‘To have a more thorough look at how double-entry bookkeeping works, head to FreshBooks for a gallery of income statement templates. Every time a sale or expense is recorded, affecting the income statement, the assets or liabilities are affected on the balance sheet, When a business records a sale, its assets will increase or its liabilities will decrease. When a business records an expense, its assets will decrease or its liabilities will increase, In this way, the income statement and balance sheet are closely related. Balance sheets will show a more thorough overview of the security and investment health of a business, however they are both indispensable financial statements. Dummies.com put together this helpful ilustration demonstrating just how clasely the two reports tie together: Bolance Sheet eset soca ‘etn Statont cic Cost an So Been, fi Li Tiichake Bg EE TIT Anorivaion pense Intangible sete ne Linontoe § Owners’ Equy att ee “Irene Tox Expense Accrued Expenses

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