The information necessary for preparing the 2021 year-end adjusting entries for Winter Storage appears below. Winter's fiscal year-end is December 31. Depreciation on the equipment for the year is $7,000. Salaries earned by employees (but not paid to them) from December 16 through December 31, 2021, are $3,400. On March 1, 2021, Winter lends an employee $12,000 and a note is signed requiring principal and interest at 6% to be paid on February 28, 2022. On April 1, 2021, Winter pays an insurance company $15,000 for a one-year fire insurance policy. The entire $15,000 is debited to prepaid insurance at the time of the purchase. $1,500 of supplies are used in 2021. A customer pays Winter $4,200 on October 31, 2021, for six months of storage to begin November 1, 2021. Winter credits deferred revenue at the time of cash receipt. On December 1, 2021, $4,000 rent is paid to a local storage facility. The payment represents storage for December 2021 through March 2022, at $1,000 per month. Prepaid rent is debited at the time of the payment. Required: Record the necessary adjusting entries at December 31, 2021. No prior adjustments have been made during 2021. (If no entry is required for a particular transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)
The Effect Of Prepaid Taxes On Assets And Liabilities
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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
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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.
The information necessary for preparing the 2021 year-end
Depreciation on the equipment for the year is $7,000.
Salaries earned by employees (but not paid to them) from December 16 through December 31, 2021, are $3,400.
On March 1, 2021, Winter lends an employee $12,000 and a note is signed requiring principal and interest at 6% to be paid on February 28, 2022.
On April 1, 2021, Winter pays an insurance company $15,000 for a one-year fire insurance policy. The entire $15,000 is debited to prepaid insurance at the time of the purchase.
$1,500 of supplies are used in 2021.
A customer pays Winter $4,200 on October 31, 2021, for six months of storage to begin November 1, 2021. Winter credits deferred revenue at the time of cash receipt.
On December 1, 2021, $4,000 rent is paid to a local storage facility. The payment represents storage for December 2021 through March 2022, at $1,000 per month. Prepaid rent is debited at the time of the payment.
Required:
Record the necessary adjusting entries at December 31, 2021. No prior adjustments have been made during 2021. (If no entry is required for a particular transaction/event, select "No
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