Ever get the latest iPhone or Galaxy phone for $100 (or free) just for signing onto a new plan, or at a store that may offer 12-month, no-interest financing for merchandise you're planning to buy? Your carrier is absorbing part of the cost of the phone in its monthly charges to you, although it seems like you got the phone either at a steep discount. That store is essentially using the Deferred Acquisition Costs (DAC) model for spurring sales.
Most often used in the insurance industry, DAC allows insurance companies to write off underwriting costs and broker fees over time as a tax credit against revenues, as long as it's for new business. Accounting rules have different categories for amortization depending on the type of policies underwritten.
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Finance: What is Deferred Compensation?8 Views
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get it today You get it next year at some
point you know differed If you've gotten paid today it
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yeah it's money you don't get right now Yeah so
whywould compensation be deferred Well lotsa reasons think about a
bonus that a sales person might earn through out the
year like they get two grand in bonus money payable
next year for each month that they sell over four
pounds of yellowcake uranium powder Bob here did it in
january messed around in february and march and was a
good boy in april may and june and then on
lee hit one more sales goal ahead of christmas doing
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hitting his sales bonus target and we'll have owed to
him ten grand in bonus money e compensation that was
deferred and noting that all bonuses are paid in january
of the following year like it's deferred to the following
year So from the company's perspective they show deferred compensation
as a line item or a thing on their balance
Sheet is a liability And then they converted to being
an expense when they pay everything out the first month
of the next year so come january Bob will be
very happy with his healthy bonus That is you know 00:01:29.357 --> [endTime] assuming he's still around to enjoy it there No
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