Intermediate accounting is another hard accounting
course that goes a bit deeper into accounting than basic accounting. That’s why it’s known to be a bit more
complex than normal accounting. It has
four main branches;
·
The time value of cash: It deals with long term bonds and deferred
annuities which are time value matters.
Annuities are nothing but a payment voucher that you either receive or
make over a period of time. Deferred
annuities are flexible and wait for acceptance of the receiver. In other words the receiver has the freedom
to accept the payment in his own terms.
·
Accounting for retail inventory: This
is the major subject in financial accounting.
It deals with the effect of inventory cost over the income statements
and assumption of inventory cost-flow.
In simple terms, it’s basically accounting for cost control of retail
inventory. A cost ratio is used in
retail inventory method to convert the final inventory value at cost of
retail.
·
Research and Development Expenses (R&D): This topic hardly gives importance on the
financial accounting subject. A fine
example is that of a pharmaceutical company when it develops an indigenous
drug. A lot of R&D is done before
the drug is tested several times and finally launched. But, Intermediate Accounting shows the way to
handle this expense as a cost.
·
Accounting for income taxes: Accounting textbooks have very little
discussion on this one subject of income taxes.
As even the academic experts don’t go to paying taxes for hard earned
money. But not with intermediate
accounting, it discusses calculation of taxes in detail.