adjusting entry

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Noun

adjusting entry - an accounting entry made at the end of an accounting period to allocate items between accounting periodsaccounting entry, ledger entry, entry - a written record of a commercial transaction

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Adjusting Entry

(Russian, storno, from Italian storno, bookkeeping transfer), a bookkeeping procedure generally intended to rectify an incorrect entry.

Only one kind of adjusting entry is customarily used—the reversing entry, a supplementary entry in which the same absolute number is kept but the sign is reversed, in order to correct an error. The incorrect entry is thus canceled. The numbers reversed are usually written in red ink so that they will stand out; thus, reversing entries are sometimes known as red-ink entries. A partial adjusting entry can also be used; here, the original error is not canceled but merely altered.

In making an adjusting entry, it is necessary that reference be made to the entries being corrected or adjusted.

Adjusting Entry

1. An adjustment made to a company's financial records at the end of an accounting period to assign revenues and expenses to the days on which the events justifying them occurred or on which the revenue was received, depending on the situation. For example, if a company is paid in advance for the purchase of some good, an adjusting entry may recognize that revenue on the day the good was delivered. Likewise, if the company was paid after delivery, it may recognize the revenue on the day it was paid. See also: Accrued Expenses, Accrued Revenue, Prepaid Expenses, Unearned Revenue.

2. Any correction to a previous entry in a company's financial records.

adjusting entry

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Words related to adjusting entry

noun an accounting entry made at the end of an accounting period to allocate items between accounting periods

Related Words

accounting entry
ledger entry
entry

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