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Author: OpenStax

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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 resu…

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 a…

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…

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 repor…

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Chapter 5, Problem 3TP

Assume you are a senior accountant and have been assigned the responsibility for making the entries to close the books for the year. You have prepared the following four entries and presented them to your boss, the chief financial officer of the company, along with the company CEO, in the weekly staff meeting:

Chapter 5, Problem 3TP, Assume you are a senior accountant and have been assigned the responsibility for making the entries

As the CEO was reviewing your work, he asked the question, “What do these entries mean? Can we learn anything about the company from reviewing them?”

Provide an explanation to give to the CEO about what the entries reveal about the company’s operations this year.

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Principles of Accounting Volume 1

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