Utility costs that relate to current year's operations but are not paid until the following year require:
a debit to Utilities Expense
a credit to Utilities Payable
<h3>What happens when expenses are not paid?</h3>
Expenses are meant to be paid within the accounting period that they occur and if this does not happen, then they are to be treated as current liabilities in the Balance sheet.
This means that the Utilities Expense account will be debited as is the norm but the account that will then be credited is the Utilities Payable account which is a current liability.
<h2>Luke cannot sell the product because patent is already been issued to the similar product.</h2>
Explanation:
According to the given scenario, Luke though he is an inventor and he has created a product which is similar to already patented, Luke is not allowed to sale based on the patent rule.
Since there is a patent right obtained by someone for similar product, then what Luke is trying to do is against the Patent law.
Luke cannot prove that he already had an idea. Any law always needs a proof than a statement.
Luke may be punishable under the patent law if he tries to sell his invention.
