Beacons Company maintains and repairs warning lights, such as those found on radio towers and lighthouses. Beacons Company prepared the following end-of-period spreadsheet at December 31, 20Y5, the end of the fiscal year: Beacons Company End-of-Period Spreadsheet For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y5 Unadjusted Trial Balance Adjustments
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.
| Beacons Company | ||||||
| End-of-Period Spreadsheet | ||||||
| For the Year Ended December 31, 20Y5 | ||||||
| Unadjusted |
Adjustments | Adjusted Trial Balance | ||||
| Account Title | Dr. | Cr. | Dr. | Cr. | Dr. | Cr. |
| Cash | 10,800.00 | 10,800.00 | ||||
| Accounts Receivable | 38,900.00 | (a) 9,100.00 | 48,000.00 | |||
| Prepaid Insurance | 4,200.00 | (b) 3,150.00 | 1,050.00 | |||
| Supplies | 2,730.00 | (c) 2,180.00 | 550.00 | |||
| Land | 98,000.00 | 98,000.00 | ||||
| Building | 400,000.00 | 400,000.00 | ||||
| 205,300.00 | (d) 12,000.00 | 217,300.00 | ||||
| Equipment | 101,000.00 | 101,000.00 | ||||
| Accumulated Depreciation-Equipment | 85,100.00 | (e) 4,800.00 | 89,900.00 | |||
| Accounts Payable | 15,700.00 | 15,700.00 | ||||
| Salaries and Wages Payable | (f) 5,000.00 | 5,000.00 | ||||
| Unearned Rent | 2,100.00 | (g) 1,100.00 | 1,000.00 | |||
| Common Stock | 75,000.00 | 75,000.00 | ||||
| 128,100.00 | 128,100.00 | |||||
| Dividends | 10,000.00 | 10,000.00 | ||||
| Fees Earned | 363,700.00 | (a) 9,100.00 | 372,800.00 | |||
| Rent Revenue | (g) 1,100.00 | 1,100.00 | ||||
| Salaries and Wages Expense | 158,100.00 | (f) 5,000.00 | 163,100.00 | |||
| Advertising Expense | 21,700.00 | 21,700.00 | ||||
| Utilities Expense | 16,400.00 | 16,400.00 | ||||
| Depreciation Expense-Building | (d) 12,000.00 | 12,000.00 | ||||
| Repairs Expense | 8,850.00 | 8,850.00 | ||||
| Depreciation Expense-Equipment | (e) 4,800.00 | 4,800.00 | ||||
| Insurance Expense | (b) 3,150.00 | 3,150.00 | ||||
| Supplies Expense | (c) 2,180.00 | 2,180.00 | ||||
| Miscellaneous Expense | 4,320.00 | 4,320.00 | ||||
| 875,000.00 | 875,000.00 | 37,330.00 | 37,330.00 | 905,900.00 | 905,900.00 |
| 1. | Prepare an income statement for the year ended December 31, 20Y5. If a net loss has been incurred, enter that amount as a negative number using a minus sign. Be sure to complete the statement heading. Use the list of Labels and Amount Descriptions for the correct wording of text items other than account names. You will not need to enter colons (:) on the income statement. |
| 2. | Prepare a statement of |
| 3. | Prepare a balance sheet as of December 31, 20Y5. Fixed assets must be entered in order according to account number. Be sure to complete the statement heading. Refer to the list of Labels and Amount Descriptions for the exact wording of the answer choices for text entries. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles. For those boxes in which you must enter subtracted or negative numbers use a minus sign. |
| 4. | Based upon the end-of-period spreadsheet, journalize the closing entries. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles. |
| 5. |
Prepare a post-closing trial balance. |
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