
Concept explainers
It means recording of financial data related to business transactions in a journal in a manner so that debit equals credit. They provide an audit trail to the auditor and a means to analyze the effects of transactions to an organization’s financial health.
Rules of Journal Entry:
► To increase the balance of account one needs to debit assets, expenses and losses and credit all the liabilities, revenues and gains including capital.
► To decrease the balance of account credit all assets, expenses and losses and debit all liabilities, revenues and gains including capital.
Perpetual Inventory System:
The inventory system in which the inventory accounts are updated on each purchase or sale in inventory. Quantities of inventory are updated on continuous basis. This can be done by integrating the inventory system to order entry and to the retail sale point of system
To prepare: Journal entries in the books of Company B.

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Financial and Managerial Accounting: Information for Decisions
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