Roger and Wiley conflicting info

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    Oneday
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    Hi. I use UWorld Roger CPA Review material as a main source and have supplementary source (flash card note) from Wiley.

    I have found that there is a conflicting info that I want to verify.

    The chart under the page 19-1 in 2016 roger book shows the calculation for “Tax Payable” (at the very end of the chart).

    However, on my supplementary wiley material, it says:

    Current Income Tax EXPENSE = Tax income x Current Tax Rate

    Current tax liability = current income tax expense – Estimated Payments.

    Converting the Roger’s chart to what Wiley has put down:

    Current Tax LIABILITY = Taxable Income x Current Tax Rate

    TAX PAYABLE = Current Tax LIABILITY – Prepayment

    You can see two problems on this:

    1. Wiley use the wording “current income tax EXPENSE” while Roger use “current income tax liability”

    2. And Wiley use the wording “current tax liability” where Roger puts “tax payable”

    I am assuming that “prepayment” and “estimated payments” is same thing (let me know if it is not).

    Which is the correct wording?

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    Missy
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    They are both correct and not conflicting. Expense is an income statement account and liability is a balance sheet account. A payable account is a type of liability, and those terms can be used fairly interchangeably, all payables are liabilities but not all liabilities are payables, in a sense. When you enter the current period taxes you debit tax expense and credit tax liability. When you pay the taxes you debit tax liability and credit cash.

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    #770628
    Oneday
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    Thank you so much. I was totally offguarded on that..

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