indenture (plural indentures) (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice). (law) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract. An indentation. (Can we add an example for this sense?) Translations
What it is: Interest expense is the cost of money. Interest expense is recorded on the income statement. Let's assume you need $500,000 to buy a house. The price of borrowing that money is interest, and it is expressed as a percentage of the amount of money you obtain.
Interest expense is included on the company's income statement, and represents the interest accrued during a certain time period, not necessarily the interest the company actually paid. The simplest way to calculate interest expense is to multiply a company's debt by the average interest rate on its debts. If a company has $100 million in debt at an average interest rate of 5%, its interest expense would be $100 million multiplied by 0.05, or $5 million. Net Income.