OK! here I go again! I am making a general journal, posting to a general ledger, making a trial balance, and an income statement. I got confused as I was putting the info into the general ledger so if you could show me what it is supposed to look like, I would appreciate that. This is what I put in the general ledger: May 1 (311) Mendez invested cash $5000, 2 (521) paid rent $500, 3 (142)purchased office supplies $100, 4 purchased office equip on acct.$2000(does that go under 181-office equip. or 202-accts. payable?), 5(401) received cash for services rendered $280, 8 (525) paid phone bill $38, 9 (533) paid electric bill $42, 10 (401) received cash for services rendered $310, 13 (511) wage expense $500, 14 (526) paid car rental $200, 15 (512) paid for ad $30, 18 (401) received cash for services rendered $620, 19 (526) transportation expense $22, 21 (312) Mendez withdrawal $50, 23 payment on acct. for office equip (again, 181-office equip or 202-accts. payable?) $200, 24(401) earned fee on account, 26 (512) paid for ad $30, 27 (549) miscellaneous expense $15, 28 (511) wages $500, 29(122) received cash on acct. $250, 30 (401) received cash for services rendered $280, 31 (526) transportation expense. Looks like I'm out of space to put the Chart of Accounts. David @ 928-300-4727
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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