FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING:TOOLS FOR BUSINESS
19th Edition
ISBN: 9781119493624
Author: Kimmel
Publisher: WILEY
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You have been engaged to examine the financial statements of Tupac Corporation for the year 2023. The bookkeeper who maintains the financial records has prepared all of the unadjusted financial statements for the Corporation since its organization on January 2, 2021. You discover numerous errors that have been made in these statements. The client has asked you to compute the correct income for the three years 2021 through 2023 and to prepare a corrected balance sheet as of December 31, 2023. In the course of your examination, you discover the following:
The Corporation includes sales taxes collected form customers in the Sales account. When sales tax collections for a month are remitted to the taxing authority on the 15thof the following month, the Sales Tax Expense account is charged. All sales are subjected to a 3% sales tax. Total sales plus sales taxes for 2021 through 2023 were P495,430, P762,200 and P875,500, respectively. The totals of the Sales Tax Expense account for…
Entity A is a listed company in Hong Kong. It did not keep completed accounting records for the period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 because the previous accounting manager suddenly resigned on 1 April 2019 and the position was kept vacant up to 31 March 2020.
However, Entity A needs to prepare the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2020 in order to fulfil the financial reporting requirements. David Chan (David) is the managing director of Entity A. The new accountant, Tammy Li (Tammy) was employed by David on 1 April 2020. She worked very hard to find any useful information to facilitate the preparation for financial statements as at 31 March 2020.
The information which was found by Tammy are listed as below:
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Entity A
Statements of Financial Position
as at 31 March 2019
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$
Assets
Non-current assets
Office equipment
2,625,000
Current assets…
Calculate the shareholder's equity (common stock and retained earnings) for 2021 and 2022. Show and explain how you arrive at the answer.
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