TOPIC – Double Entry, Balancing Off - Trial Balance On January 1, 2018, G. Saunders commenced business operations with $50 000 cash. On that day he paid $5 000 for the rent of his shop and $6 000 cash for furniture. He also deposited $15 000 of the cash into the business bank account. Other transactions for the month were as follows: January 3 Purchased on credit goods from E. John 4 750 January 5 Cash Sales 3 000 January 13 Cash purchases 1 599 January 14 Purchased goods by cheque from E. John 2 500 January 18 Sold goods on credit to A.Peterson 7 420 January 19 Paid E. John cash 3 450 January 22 Paid electricity by cheque 3 000 January 27 Received cash from A. Peterson 5 000 January 30 Received commission by cheque 7 500 January 31 Sold goods for cash 5 200 You are required to: Write up all the relevant accounts on the ledger sheets provided for G. Saunders and balance each account. a. b. Extract a Trial Balance as at January 31, 2018 on the form provided.
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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