Exercise 5: Prepare journal entries to record the following merchandising transactions of Dean Company, which applies the perpetual inventory system. Dean Company offers all of its credit customers credit terms of 2/10, n/30. May 1 Purchased merchandise from Swift Company for $7,800 under credit terms of 1/10, n/30, FOB shipping point, invoice dated May 1. 2 Purchased merchandise from Arrow Company for S10,600 under eredit terms 2/5, n/20, FOB destination. 3 Sold merchandise to Bee Company for $5,600, FOB shipping point, invoice dated May 4. The merchandise had cost $3,000. 4 Paid $300 cash for the freight charges on the May 1 purchase of merchandise. 5 Received an $800 credit memorandum from Swift Company for the return of part of the merchandise purchased on May 1. 6 Paid Arrow Company the balance due within the discount period. 8 Sold merchandise to Nat Company for $3,300, FOB shipping point, invoice dated May 8. The merchandise had a cost of S1,500. 11 Paid Swift Company the balance due within the discount period. 13 Received the balance due from Bee Company within the discount period. 14 Issued a credit $300 credit memorandum to Nat Company for an allowance on defective merchandise. 17 Received the balance due from Nat Company within the discount period.
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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