Online Accounting Dictionary

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  • Unavoidable fixed costs are costs you have to incur if you want to stay in business.
  • Unearned revenue represents cash received and recorded as liabilities before revenue is earned. These amounts are shown in the liabilities section on the balance sheet.
  • Unit-level activity is an activity performed on each individual product or service. At this level, the cost drivers will be volume-based since the amount of activity will proportionally depend on the number of units produced.
  • Units-of-production method determines the useful life of an asset based on the units of production. Each period, the units of production determine the depreciation expense.
  • Useful life is a term of service during which an asset is expected to provide benefits to a company.
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