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The Effect Of Prepaid Taxes On Assets And Liabilities
Many businesses estimate tax liability and make payments throughout the year (often quarterly). When a company overestimates its tax liability, this results in the business paying a prepaid tax. Prepaid taxes will be reversed within one year but can result in prepaid assets and liabilities.
Final Accounts
Financial accounting is one of the branches of accounting in which the transactions arising in the business over a particular period are recorded.
Ledger Posting
A ledger is an account that provides information on all the transactions that have taken place during a particular period. It is also known as General Ledger. For example, your bank account statement is a general ledger that gives information about the amount paid/debited or received/ credited from your bank account over some time.
Trial Balance and Final Accounts
In accounting we start with recording transaction with journal entries then we make separate ledger account for each type of transaction. It is very necessary to check and verify that the transaction transferred to ledgers from the journal are accurately recorded or not. Trial balance helps in this. Trial balance helps to check the accuracy of posting the ledger accounts. It helps the accountant to assist in preparing final accounts. It also helps the accountant to check whether all the debits and credits of items are recorded and posted accurately. Like in a balance sheet debit and credit side should be equal, similarly in trial balance debit balance and credit balance should tally.
Adjustment Entries
At the end of every accounting period Adjustment Entries are made in order to adjust the accounts precisely replicate the expenses and revenue of the current period. It is also known as end of period adjustment. It can also be referred as financial reporting that corrects the errors made previously in the accounting period. The basic characteristics of every adjustment entry is that it affects at least one real account and one nominal account.
Second Best Buy is a retailer of electronics. Record these transactions which occurred during the month of June on the chart attached in the picture or a similar one.
June 2 Purchased merchandise inventory from a vendor for cash, $10,000
June 3 Received cash refund from vendor for merchandise returned from purchase of June 2, $800
June 5 Sold merchandise on account to customer for $3,000, terms 2/10, n/20. The cost of the merchandise to Second Best Buy was $1200.
June 8 Paid cost of shipping merchandise inventory to customer, $400
June 25 Received full payment from customer for sale on June 5
June 30 Merchandise inventory on hand amounts to $8,500. Make the shrinkage adjustment. Don’t forget that there were balances on June 1.
The accounting equation is the fundamental equation of the double-entry bookkeeping system.
Mathematically, it is denoted as
Assets = Liabilities + Stockholder's Equity
All transactions of the accounting system can be encompassed in this equation
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