Evergreen Company sells lawn and garden products to wholesalers. The company's fiscal year-end is December 31. During 2021, the following transactions related to receivables occurred: Feb. 28 Sold merchandise to Lennox, Inc., for $20,000 and accepted a 12%, 7-month note. 12% is an appropriate rate for this type of note. Mar. 31 Sold merchandise to Maddox Co. that had a fair value of $8,800, and accepted a noninterest-bearing note for which $10,000 payment is due on March 31, 2022. Apr. 3 Sold merchandise to Carr Co. for $8,000 with terms 2/10, n/30. Evergreen uses the gross method to account for cash discounts. 11 Collected the entire amount due from Carr Co. 17 A customer returned merchandise costing $3,900. Evergreen reduced the customer's receivable balance by $5,700, the sales price of the merchandise. Sales returns are recorded by the company as they occur. 30 Transferred receivables of $57,000 to a factor without recourse. The factor charged Evergreen a 1% finance charge on the receivables transferred. The sale criteria are met. June 30 Discounted the Lennox, Inc., note at the bank. The bank's discount rate is 14%. The note was discounted without recourse. Sep. 30 Lennox, Inc., paid the note amount plus interest to the bank. Required: 1. Prepare the necessary journal entries for Evergreen for each of the above dates. For transactions involving the sale of merchandise, ignore the entry for the cost of goods sold. 2. Prepare any necessary adjusting entries at December 31, 2021. Adjusting entries are only recorded at year-end. 3. Prepare a schedule showing the effect of the journal entries on 2021 income before taxes.
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.
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