The ledger of Glow Royal Agency on March 31, 2024, includes the following selected accounts before preparing quarterly adjusting entries: Supplies $14,400 Prepaid insurance 3,600 Equipment 37,800 Accumulated depreciation—equipment $ 9,450 Unearned revenue 9,300 Notes payable 30,000 Rent revenue 30,000 Salaries expense 14,000 An analysis of the accounts shows the following: The equipment has a four-year useful life. One-quarter of the unearned rent is still unearned on March 31, 2024. The note payable has an interest rate of 6%. Interest is paid every June 30 and December 31. Supplies on hand at March 31 total $850. The one-year insurance policy was purchased on January 1, 2024. As at March 31, a tenant owed Bourque $700 for the month of March. Prepare the quarterly adjusting entries required at March 31, 2024.
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
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.
The ledger of Glow Royal Agency on March 31, 2024, includes the following selected accounts before preparing quarterly
| Supplies | $14,400 | ||
| Prepaid insurance | 3,600 | ||
| Equipment | 37,800 | ||
| $ 9,450 | |||
| Unearned revenue | 9,300 | ||
| Notes payable | 30,000 | ||
| Rent revenue | 30,000 | ||
| Salaries expense | 14,000 |
An analysis of the accounts shows the following:
- The equipment has a four-year useful life.
- One-quarter of the unearned rent is still unearned on March 31, 2024.
- The note payable has an interest rate of 6%. Interest is paid every June 30 and December 31.
- Supplies on hand at March 31 total $850.
- The one-year insurance policy was purchased on January 1, 2024.
- As at March 31, a tenant owed Bourque $700 for the month of March.
Prepare the quarterly adjusting entries required at March 31, 2024.
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