Adjusting Entries - Examples

From the website, access file 3b, which has the unadjusted trial balance with the accounts in proper order. This file also contains an accounting “system” comprised of a series of linked spreadsheets. The linkages enable the effects of all accounting entries (journal, adjusting, and closing) to flow through to spreadsheets for the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. You notice that for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, someone has made all the journal entries but none of the adjusting or closing entries.

$8 mill needed to be deducted from net income on the income statement. They should have followed (Following) with disclosure notes to describe why this error occurred and how it impacted the statement and accounts that it touched. For instance, the notes would describe the presence of the correction on the current period of beginning inventory, and retainED earnings.

Recognizing revenue on October 2, on the day of the event, is reasonable because now, performance has occurred and all of the risk and rewards have been transferred to the corporation holding the event. Revenue is measurable because the price was already set ($60,000) at the time when the contract was signed. Cost is measurable because the event has already occurred and the case states that DCL has incurred cost of $44,000 on the day of the event. Assuming that collectability is reasonably assured due to the size of the event, this method will cause revenue to be recognized in the fiscal period ended on September 30, 2016.

| (TCO 2) Transaction analysis results in the development of a journal entry. In the start-up of a business, the owner contributes $750,000 of cash. (1) Name the accounts impacted and how to use the format account name/debit or credit/dollar amount (10 points), and (2) explain how the Accounting Equation is impacted. (10 points)

Review of ABC Company and the directions it is targeting. The strategy of the company is to lift the expected sales in an aggressive fashion, with the expected end target being to triple the current levels. The plan is to push sales into the targeted range of $3 million within 3 years versus the current amount which sits at $1.2 million. We will identify the perceived risk factors that may impact this aggressive strategy and its successful execution. The following will be those risk factors:

The process requires Peyton Approved to discover how much inventory is sold and what the cost of goods will result in. The process requires the business to review three forms of merchandise inventory to determine which summary benefits the business’s operational behavior. One will discover when assuming that first inventory purchased by the store is the first to be sold, it is determined that the FIFO method displays the best financial outcome for the business. During the process of updating journal entries, one must enter the information proved appropriately into the T-accounts to add the balance under each record. Once the T-accounts for transactions and adjusted transactions are balanced, the next step is to enter the information provided on the balance sheet. The balance sheet will list Peyton Approved assets, liabilities and stockholders equity after added during the T-account process (Nobles, 2014). Once the balance sheet is completed the income statement, statement of retained earnings, and closing entries can be filled with the information proved. This will give the business a full review from journal entry to closing entries of the business for the six month accounting

* On Income Statement for December 31, 2011, the number of Revenues, Cost of Goods Sold, Expenses and Net Income will go

1. For the year-end December 31, 2007, financial statements, what amount should M record as a liability?

In response to you requested investigation regarding the property, equipment and intangible asset accounts, we have completed adjustments to the necessary accounts. During the year new office equipment was purchased at a cost of $2,697.50. We will calculate the difference between the accumulated Depreciation of office equipment balance and the office equipment account. We will then include the new office equipment to the balance, and then multiply the new balance by 20 percent using the declining-balance basis:

b. The amount of compensation earned and costs incurred under such contracts for each period for which an income statement is presented.”

Adjusting entries have four types in which provide a method of breaking down transactions. When a business purchases supplies in order to stock, this would be considered a prepaid expense. After an adjusting entry is made for a prepaid expense, the ledger would reflect the correct portion of that expense, in this case supplies, in which was incurred during a specific time. (Editorial Board, 2012, p. 42) A depreciation expense is a sub category of a prepaid expense. This occurs when an asset is allocated over a certain amount of time. An

Step 2: Post from General Journal to General Ledger for all affected accounts on pages 7 to 13.

If, at year end, 2 months have elapsed, what adjusting entry do you record? 2,000 A. Prepaid Legal Expense Legal Expense 2,000 2,000 B. Legal Expense Prepaid Legal Expense 2,000 Legal Expense 3,000 C. Prepaid Legal Expense 3,000 12,000 D. Prepaid Legal Expense Cash 12,000 [10]BASIC BANK10 - COAE 010 On September 1, your firm incurs a routine $82 expense, mistakenly recording it as follows: Office Expense Accounts Payable 28 28

Unearned revenue is a liability for the recipient of the payment, so the initial entry is a debit to the cash account and a credit to the unearned revenue account. Judging from this statement I have to agree that an unearned revenue can be thought of as a pre-payment for goods which a person or company is expected to produce to the purchaser. As a result of this prepayment, the seller now has a liability equal to the revenue earned until deliver of the good or service.

14. Aimes opened a new business by investing the following assets: cash, $4,000; land, $20,000; building, $80,000. Also, the business will assume responsibility for a note payable of $32,000. Aimes signed the note as part of his payment for the land and building. Which journal entry should be used on the books of the new business to record the investment by Aimes?