Record the transactions in the sales journal, cash receipts journal, and general journal. Total the columns at the end of the month.
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.
Sales Journal, Cash Receipts Journal, and General Journal
Owens Distributors is a retail business. The following sales, returns, and cash receipts occurred during March 20--. There is an 8% sales tax. Beginning general ledger account balances were Cash, $9,741; and Accounts Receivable, $1,058.25. Beginning customer account balances were Thompson Group, $1,058.25.
| Mar. 1 | Sold merchandise to Able & Co., $1,800, plus sales tax. Sale No. 33C. | |
| 3 | Sold merchandise to R. J. Kalas, Inc., $2,240, plus sales tax. Sale No. 33D. | |
| 5 | Able & Co. returned merchandise from Sale No. 33C for a credit (Credit Memo No. 66), $30, plus sales tax. | |
| 7 | Made cash sales for the week, $3,160, plus sales tax. | |
| 10 | Received payment from Able & Co. for Sale No. 33C less Credit Memo No. 66. | |
| 11 | Sold merchandise to Blevins Bakery, $1,210, plus sales tax. Sale No. 33E. | |
| 13 | Received payment from R. J. Kalas, Inc. for Sale No. 33D. | |
| 14 | Made cash sales for the week, $4,200, plus sales tax. | |
| 16 | Blevins Bakery returned merchandise from Sale No. 33E for a credit (Credit Memo No. 67), $44, plus sales tax. | |
| 18 | Sold merchandise to R. J. Kalas, Inc., $2,620, plus sales tax. Sale No. 33F. | |
| 20 | Received payment from Blevins Bakery for Sale No. 33E less Credit Memo No. 67. | |
| 21 | Made cash sales for the week, $2,400, plus sales tax. | |
| 25 | Sold merchandise to Blevins Bakery, $1,915, plus sales tax. Sale No. 33G. | |
| 27 | Sold merchandise to Thompson Group, $2,016, plus sales tax. Sale No. 33H. | |
| 28 | Made cash sales for the week, $3,500, plus sales tax. |
Required:
1. Record the transactions in the sales journal, cash receipts journal, and general journal. Total the columns at the end of the month.
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