[The following information applies to the questions displayed below.) On January 1, Mitzu Company pays a lump-sum amount of $2,750,000 for land, Building 1, Building 2, and Land Improvements 1. Building 1 has no value and will be demolished. Building 2 will be an office and is appraised at $796,500, with a useful life of 20 years and a $90,000 salvage value. Land Improvements 1 is valued at $324,500 and is expected to last another 11 years with no salvage value. The land is valued at $1,829,000. The company also incurs the following additional costs. Cost to demolish Building 1 Cost of additional land grading Cost to construct Building 3, having a useful life of 25 years and a $402,000 salvage value Cost of new Land Improvements 2, having a 20-year useful iife and no salvage value $ 339,400 187,400 2,282,000 168,000 . Using the straight-line method, prepare the December 31 adjusting entries to record depreciation for the first year these assets n use. View transaction list Journal entry worksheet Record the year-end adjusting entry for the depreciation expense of Building 3. Note: Enter debits before credits. Date General Journal Debit Credit December 31 < Prev of 7 Next 2.
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.
Depreciation is an accounting technique for distributing a tangible or fixed asset's cost over its usable life or expected life.
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