Accounting Dictionary

Temporary Accounts

Temporary Accounts are income statement accounts and dividends.

Every month the income statement and dividend accounts are zeroed out and closed. We need them to be empty so they are ready to tally up expenses for the new month. Since they are closed at the end of every month we call them temporary accounts.

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