Your examination of Sullivan Company’s records provides the following information for the December 31, year－end adjustments: 1. Bad debts are to be recorded at 2% of sales. Sales made on credit totaled $25,000 for the year. 2. Salaries at year-end that have accumulated but have not been paid total $1,400. 3. Annual straight-line depreciation for the company’s equipment is based on a cost of $30,000, an estimated life of 8 years, and an estimated residual value of $2,000. 4. Prepaid insurance in the amount of $800 has expired. 5. Interest that has been earned but not collected totals $500. 6. The company has satisfied performance obligations entitling it to rent in the amount of $1,000. 7. interest on a note payable that has accumulated but has not been paid totals $600. 8. The income tax rate is 30% on current income and is payable in the first quarter of the next year. The pretax income before the preceding adjusting entries is $6,800. Prepare the adjusting entries to record the preceding information.
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.
Your examination of Sullivan Company’s records provides the following information for the December 31, year－end adjustments: 1.
Prepare the adjusting entries to record the preceding information.
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