Outsourcing refers to a business practice where a company gets some of the intermediate goods or services it needs from external suppliers (other companies). Usually outsourcing is carried on by companies in order to reduce costs, e.g. customer service calls handled by Indian companies because Indian workers earn a much lower salary than American workers.
(Being the prepaid insurance is recorded for cash)
For recording the advance purchase of insurance, we debited the prepaid insurance and credited the cash account. Both the accounts are recorded at $36,000 so that the proper posting could be done.
