Ken Young and Kim Sherwood organized Reader Direct as a corporation; each contributed $55,000 cash to start the business and received 4,000 shares of stock. The store completed its first year of operations on December 31, 2017. On that date, the following financial items for the year were determined: cash on hand and in the bank, $50,500; amounts due from customers from sales of books, $28,500; equipment, $54,000; amounts owed to publishers for books purchased, $9,000; one-year notes payable to a local bank for $5,250. No dividends were declared or paid to the stockholders during the year.Assuming that Reader Direct generates net income of $6,000 and pays dividends of $3,600 in 2018, what would be the ending Retained Earnings balance at December 31, 2018?This is the problem I have been given, and I've gotten to this point. I am just very confused on the Ending RE and Beginning RE.So far I haveENDING RE = BEG RE + Net Income- Dividends________ = _______ + 6,000 - 3,600

Listed below are selected transactions of Schultz Department Store for the current year ending December 31. 1. On December 5, the store received $500 from the Selig Players as a deposit to be returned after certain furniture to be used in stage production was returned on January 15. 2. During December, cash sales totaled $798,000, which includes the 5% sales tax that must be remitted to the state by the fifteenth day of the following month. 3. 4. On December 10, the store purchased for cash three delivery trucks for $120,000. The trucks were purchased in a state that applies a 5% sales tax. The store sold 25 gift cards for $100 per card. At year-end, 20 of the gift cards are redeemed. Schultz expects three of the cards to expire unused. Prepare all the journal entries necessary to record the transactions noted above as they occurred and any adjusting journal entries relative to the transactions that would be required to present fair financial statements at December 31. Date each entry.…

In providing accounting services to small businesses, you encounter the following situations. Sunland Corporation rings up cash sales and sales taxes separately on its cash register. On April 10, the register totals are pre-tax sales of sales $6,100 plus GST of $305 and PST of $488. 2. Jennifer Corporation receives its annual property tax bill in the amount of $8,400 on May 31. (i) During the month of March, Ayayai Corporation's employees earned gross salaries of $60,000. Withholdings deducted from employee earnings related to these salaries were $3,254 for CPP, $948 for El, $7,820 for income taxes. (ii) Ayayai's employer portions were $3,254 for CPP and $1,327 for El for the month. 1. 3. Prepare the journal entries to record the above transactions. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. List all debit entries before credit…