Prepaid expenses 指“预付费用”:企业已经提前支付现金,但相关的费用尚未发生或尚未被消耗,因此在发生前通常先作为资产(常见为“预付账款/预付费用”)在资产负债表中确认,之后随着时间推移或服务被使用再逐步转为费用(如预付房租、预付保险费)。
/ˌpriːˈpeɪd ɪkˈspɛnsɪz/
We recorded the insurance payment as prepaid expenses.
我们把这笔保险费记作预付费用。
Under accrual accounting, prepaid expenses are initially recognized as current assets and then expensed over the periods that benefit from the payment, often through adjusting journal entries at month-end.
在权责发生制下,预付费用通常先确认为流动资产,然后在受益期间内逐期转为费用,往往通过月末调整分录来完成。
该短语由 prepaid(pre- “预先” + paid “已支付”)和 expenses(“费用/支出”)组成,字面意思是“预先支付的费用”。在会计语境中强调的是:虽然钱已付出,但经济利益尚未完全消耗,所以先不计入当期损益。