Interest Expense
Interest expense is the cost associated with the use of borrowed money. There may not be a bill received at the end of an accounting period that indicates how much interest expense was incurred during that accounting period. The company will have to compute this amount itself. The general way to compute interest expense is to take the amount of the loan (called the principal), multiply it by the interest rate, and then prorate the result for the portion of the year that the amount is outstanding. For example, if a company borrowed $100,000 on July 1 for the term of one year and pays interest at the rate of 10 percent (interest rates are annual amounts unless stated otherwise), how much interest should be accrued at the Balance ...
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