Department of English & Foreign Languages. The Department of English shares a broad objective with other departments in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences: to teach the skills which will enable you to interpret, evaluate, and, in your own way, change your world.
In short, GAAP requires accrual accounting rather than cash accounting, because the accrual basis better fits the defined objectives of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Accrual accounting requires companies to record transactions in the time period in which financial events occur.
2. Understand why you need to accrue expenses. The accrual basis of accounting states that you must record revenues and expenses in the period in which they are incurred, not when cash is received or paid.The principle relating to expenses is called the matching principle.ake the appropriate adjusting entry. You accrue expenses by recording an adjusting entry to the general ledger. Adjusting entries occur at the end of the accounting period and affect one balance sheet account (an accrued liability) and one income statement account (an expense).