Accounts receivable (AR) is the balance of money due to a firm for goods or services provided, but not yet paid for by consumers. Accounts receivables are recorded on the balance sheet as a current asset.
Asset management is a system that helps companies to keep a record of all their assets, such as instruments, machinery, and expenses. Keeping tabs on the assets helps streamline operations. The process also reduces the possibility of recording ghost assets, since all the assets are well accounted for.
A purchase price allocation is primarily involved in accounting purposes, but it also gives a useful evaluation of the components that make up goodwill. In this process, the purchase price was allocated to all the tangible net assets, such as working capital and machinery, with the rest allocated entirely to goodwill. Definition Purchase price allocation … Read more
Mergers and acquisitions are transactions of shifting ownership between two companies, wherein a merger is a fusing or combining of two companies and acquisition is one company acquiring or buying another. The ultimate goal of mergers and acquisitions is to create synergy, which typically makes the two combined companies worth more valuable than the two separate companies.
Demand forecasting is the systematic process to evaluate future demand for a specific product. Simply put, it allows you to examine the sales scientifically over upcoming weeks, months and years, so that you know exactly how much stock to order and hold at any given time period.
Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) is a method of budgeting in which all expenses must be justified for each new period, regardless of whether each budget is higher or lower than the previous period.
