Corporate Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781305653535
Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.2BPR
Financial statements and closing entries
The Gorman Group is a financial planning services firm owned and operated by Nicole Gorman. As of October 31, 2018, the end of the fiscal year, the accountant for The Gorman Group prepared an end-of-period spreadsheet, part of which follows:
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1. Prepare an income statement, a
2.
3. If the balance of Retained Earnings had instead increased $115,000 after the closing entries were posted, and the dividends remained the same, what would have been the amount of net income or net loss?
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