1400 Prepaid Expenses

Payments made in advance for something you will use later: annual insurance, a year of software, prepaid rent. An asset released to expense month by month.

In Solo Superstars

Set up a prepaid schedule and the app moves one month’s share from here to the expense account each month, including at year end.

Example

$1,200 annual insurance paid in January: debit 1400 1,200. Each month: debit 6050 Insurance 100, credit 1400 100.

Codes shown are the defaults a new workspace starts with. Yours may be renamed or renumbered — check Accounting › Chart of accounts. See the full default chart.

Also called

  • prepayments

Related

  • Prepaid expense — Something you paid for ahead of time, like annual insurance. Sits as an asset and is released to expense month by month.
  • Prepaid schedule — The plan that releases a prepaid amount to expense evenly over its months, posting an adjusting entry each period.
  • Chart of accounts — The list of buckets your money can be sorted into: assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, expenses. New workspaces start with a default set you can rename or extend.
  • Default chart — The chart of accounts every new workspace starts with, numbered the way QuickBooks users expect. Yours may have been renamed or extended since.

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