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cicihuss
Mar 5, 2014, 10:16 AM
Our Health insurance company in this current year, refunded an employees prior year premium. Would this get booked to other income or credit the current year expense?
I elect other income, to eliminate understated expense in current year.

Fidget1
Mar 7, 2014, 11:42 AM
To book it as income would be misleading because it suggests that it is money that the company has made by carrying out its activities when in fact it's a refund of an expense that has already been paid. I would therefore credit it to the current year expense.