3.2Identify the financial statement on which each of the following accounts would appear: the income statement (IS), the retained earnings statement (RE), or the Balance Sheet (BS). Journaling the entry is the second step in the accounting cycle. During the installation, the equipment was damaged and the cost of repair was $1,860.What is the total recorded cost of the scorekeeping equipment? Repair costs - Excluded Transaction 1: On January 3, 2019, issues $20,000 shares of common stock for cash. To provide a bit more information for this illustration, the reporting company will be a small farm supply store known as the Lawndale Company that is located in a rural area. The equipment is received along with the invoice. In the journal entry, Dividends has a debit balance of $100. Payment is made here for past work so this cost represents an expense rather than an asset. Debits and credits are used for this purpose. Common Stock has a credit balance of $20,000. Nov. 5 Purchased 600 units of product at a cost of $10 per unit. The following discussion about gift cards is taken from Starbuckss 2016 annual report: When an amount is loaded onto a stored value card we recognize a corresponding liability for the full amount loaded onto the card, which is recorded within stored value card liability on our consolidated balance sheets. are licensed under a, Explain the Importance of Accounting and Distinguish between Financial and Managerial Accounting, Identify Users of Accounting Information and How They Apply Information, Describe Typical Accounting Activities and the Role Accountants Play in Identifying, Recording, and Reporting Financial Activities, Explain Why Accounting Is Important to Business Stakeholders, Describe the Varied Career Paths Open to Individuals with an Accounting Education, Describe the Income Statement, Statement of Owners Equity, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows, and How They Interrelate, Define, Explain, and Provide Examples of Current and Noncurrent Assets, Current and Noncurrent Liabilities, Equity, Revenues, and Expenses, Prepare an Income Statement, Statement of Owners Equity, and Balance Sheet, Describe Principles, Assumptions, and Concepts of Accounting and Their Relationship to Financial Statements, Define and Describe the Expanded Accounting Equation and Its Relationship to Analyzing Transactions, Define and Describe the Initial Steps in the Accounting Cycle, Analyze Business Transactions Using the Accounting Equation and Show the Impact of Business Transactions on Financial Statements, Use Journal Entries to Record Transactions and Post to T-Accounts, Explain the Concepts and Guidelines Affecting Adjusting Entries, Discuss the Adjustment Process and Illustrate Common Types of Adjusting Entries, Record and Post the Common Types of Adjusting Entries, Use the Ledger Balances to Prepare an Adjusted Trial Balance, Prepare Financial Statements Using the Adjusted Trial Balance, Describe and Prepare Closing Entries for a Business, Apply the Results from the Adjusted Trial Balance to Compute Current Ratio and Working Capital Balance, and Explain How These Measures Represent Liquidity, Appendix: Complete a Comprehensive Accounting Cycle for a Business, Compare and Contrast Merchandising versus Service Activities and Transactions, Compare and Contrast Perpetual versus Periodic Inventory Systems, Analyze and Record Transactions for Merchandise Purchases Using the Perpetual Inventory System, Analyze and Record Transactions for the Sale of Merchandise Using the Perpetual Inventory System, Discuss and Record Transactions Applying the Two Commonly Used Freight-In Methods, Describe and Prepare Multi-Step and Simple Income Statements for Merchandising Companies, Appendix: Analyze and Record Transactions for Merchandise Purchases and Sales Using the Periodic Inventory System, Define and Describe the Components of an Accounting Information System, Describe and Explain the Purpose of Special Journals and Their Importance to Stakeholders, Analyze and Journalize Transactions Using Special Journals, Describe Career Paths Open to Individuals with a Joint Education in Accounting and Information Systems, Analyze Fraud in the Accounting Workplace, Define and Explain Internal Controls and Their Purpose within an Organization, Describe Internal Controls within an Organization, Define the Purpose and Use of a Petty Cash Fund, and Prepare Petty Cash Journal Entries, Discuss Management Responsibilities for Maintaining Internal Controls within an Organization, Define the Purpose of a Bank Reconciliation, and Prepare a Bank Reconciliation and Its Associated Journal Entries, Describe Fraud in Financial Statements and Sarbanes-Oxley Act Requirements, Explain the Revenue Recognition Principle and How It Relates to Current and Future Sales and Purchase Transactions, Account for Uncollectible Accounts Using the Balance Sheet and Income Statement Approaches, Determine the Efficiency of Receivables Management Using Financial Ratios, Discuss the Role of Accounting for Receivables in Earnings Management, Apply Revenue Recognition Principles to Long-Term Projects, Explain How Notes Receivable and Accounts Receivable Differ, Appendix: Comprehensive Example of Bad Debt Estimation, Describe and Demonstrate the Basic Inventory Valuation Methods and Their Cost Flow Assumptions, Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold and Ending Inventory Using the Periodic Method, Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold and Ending Inventory Using the Perpetual Method, Explain and Demonstrate the Impact of Inventory Valuation Errors on the Income Statement and Balance Sheet, Examine the Efficiency of Inventory Management Using Financial Ratios, Distinguish between Tangible and Intangible Assets, Analyze and Classify Capitalized Costs versus Expenses, Explain and Apply Depreciation Methods to Allocate Capitalized Costs, Describe Accounting for Intangible Assets and Record Related Transactions, Describe Some Special Issues in Accounting for Long-Term Assets, Identify and Describe Current Liabilities, Analyze, Journalize, and Report Current Liabilities, Define and Apply Accounting Treatment for Contingent Liabilities, Prepare Journal Entries to Record Short-Term Notes Payable, Record Transactions Incurred in Preparing Payroll, Explain the Pricing of Long-Term Liabilities, Compute Amortization of Long-Term Liabilities Using the Effective-Interest Method, Prepare Journal Entries to Reflect the Life Cycle of Bonds, Appendix: Special Topics Related to Long-Term Liabilities, Explain the Process of Securing Equity Financing through the Issuance of Stock, Analyze and Record Transactions for the Issuance and Repurchase of Stock, Record Transactions and the Effects on Financial Statements for Cash Dividends, Property Dividends, Stock Dividends, and Stock Splits, Compare and Contrast Owners Equity versus Retained Earnings, Discuss the Applicability of Earnings per Share as a Method to Measure Performance, Describe the Advantages and Disadvantages of Organizing as 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International License, i. if uncertainty in a potential financial estimate, a company should err on the side of caution and report the most conservative amount, ii. On this transaction, Cash has a credit of $3,500. In the initial part of the transaction, the accounts receivable balance goes up $5,000 because the money from the customer will not be collected until a later date. Sales tax - Included Chapter 14: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Noncurrent Liabilities Such as Bonds? Assume a perpetual inventory system. 1.1 Making Good Financial Decisions about an Organization, 1.2 Incorporation and the Trading of Capital Shares, 1.3 Using Financial Accounting for Wise Decision Making, 2.1 Creating a Portrait of an Organization That Can Be Used by Decision Makers, 2.3 The Need for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, 2.4 Four Basic Terms Found in Financial Accounting, 3.1 The Construction of an Income Statement, 3.2 Reported Profitability and the Principle of Conservatism, 3.3 Increasing the Net Assets of a Company, 3.4 Reporting a Balance Sheet and a Statement of Cash Flows, 4.5 The Connection of the Journal and the Ledger, 4.1 The Essential Role of Transaction Analysis, 4.2 The Effects Caused by Common Transactions, 4.3 An Introduction to Double-Entry Bookkeeping, 5.3 Preparing Financial Statements Based on Adjusted Balances, 6.1 The Need for the Securities and Exchange Commission, 6.2 The Role of the Independent Auditor in Financial Reporting, 6.5 The Purpose and Content of an Independent Auditors Report, 7.1 Accounts Receivable and Net Realizable Value, 7.2 Accounting for Uncollectible Accounts, 7.4 Estimating the Amount of Uncollectible Accounts, 7.5 Remeasuring Foreign Currency Balances, 7.6 A Companys Vital SignsAccounts Receivable, 8.1 Determining and Reporting the Cost of Inventory, 8.2 Perpetual and Periodic Inventory Systems, 8.3 The Calculation of Cost of Goods Sold, 8.4 Reporting Inventory at the Lower-of-Cost-or-Market, 9.1 The Necessity of Adopting a Cost Flow Assumption, 9.2 The Selection of a Cost Flow Assumption for Reporting Purposes, 9.4 Merging Periodic and Perpetual Inventory Systems with a Cost Flow Assumption, 9.5 Applying LIFO and Averaging to Determine Reported Inventory Balances, 10.1 The Reporting of Property and Equipment, 10.2 Determining Historical Cost and Depreciation Expense, 10.3 Recording Depreciation Expense for a Partial Year, 10.4 Alternative Depreciation Patterns and the Recording of a Wasting Asset, 10.5 Recording Asset Exchanges and Expenditures That Affect Older Assets, 10.6 Reporting Land Improvements and Impairments in the Value of Property and Equipment, 11.1 Identifying and Accounting for Intangible Assets, 11.2 The Balance Sheet Reporting of Intangible Assets, 11.3 Recognizing Intangible Assets Owned by a Subsidiary, 11.4 Accounting for Research and Development, 11.5 Acquiring an Asset with Future Cash Payments, 12.1 Accounting for Investments in Trading Securities, 12.2 Accounting for Investments in Securities That Are Available for Sale, 12.3 Accounting for Investments by Means of the Equity Method, 12.4 The Reporting of Consolidated Financial Statements, 13.2 Reporting Current Liabilities Such as Gift Cards, 14.5 Issuing and Accounting for Serial Bonds, 14.6 Bonds with Other Than Annual Interest Payments, 15.2 Operating Leases versus Capital Leases, 15.3 Recognition of Deferred Income Taxes, 16.1 Selecting a Legal Form for a Business, 16.3 Issuing and Accounting for Preferred Stock and Treasury Stock, 16.4 The Issuance of Cash and Stock Dividends, 16.5 The Computation of Earnings per Share, 17.1 The Structure of a Statement of Cash Flows, 17.2 Cash Flows from Operating Activities: The Direct Method, 17.3 Cash Flows from Operating Activities: The Indirect Method, 17.4 Cash Flows from Investing and Financing Activities. DR Machinery: Everything except Repair Cost: $227,700 Therefore, you will debit gas expense. OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License . Figure 4.6 Journal Entry 3: Money Borrowed from Bank, Link to multiple-choice question for practice purposes: http://www.quia.com/quiz/2092610.html. The next transaction figure of $4,000 is added directly below the $20,000 on the debit side. However, when a cost cannot be tied directly to identifiable revenue, matching is not possible. Answer: Because no entry has yet been made, neither the $300 salary expense nor the related salary payable already exists in the accounting records. The company provided service to the client; therefore, the company may recognize the revenue as earned (revenue recognition principle), which increases revenue. The sum on the assets side of the accounting equation equals $30,000, found by adding together the final balances in each asset account (24,800 + 1,200 + 500 + 3,500). The customer owes the money, which increases Accounts Receivable. Because the revenue is recognized at that moment, the related expense (cost of goods sold) should also be recorded as can be seen in Journal Entry 4B. In 2014 one in seven adults received a Starbucks gift card. Prepare journal entries to record each of the following sales transactions of a merchandising company. One of the most important elements comprising the structure of U.S. GAAP is accrual accounting, which serves as the basis for timing the reporting of revenues and expenses. Kegler Bowling buys scorekeeping equipment with an invoice cost of $190,000. Expenses increase on the debit side; thus, Salaries Expense will increase on the debit side. Identify Transactions There are generally three steps to making a journal entry. When doing journal entries, we must always consider four factors: Which accounts are affected by the transaction. This positioning clearly shows which account is debited and which is credited. Journal entries: January 4: Cash is an asset, and assets increase with debit entries, so debit cash. This is posted to the Accounts Receivable T-account on the debit side. The company uses a perpetual inventory system and the gross method. Transaction General Journal Debit Credit (1) Inventory 165,000 Accounts payable 165,000 (2) Salaries expense 40,000 Cash 40,000 (3a) Accounts receivable 200,000 Sales revenue 200,000 (3b) Cost of goods sold 120,000 Inventory 120,000 (4) Cash 180,000 Accounts receivable 180,000 You will notice that the transaction from January 3 is listed already in this T-account. Trumpet and Trombone Manufacturing, Inc. began the year with a retained earnings balance of $545,000. are not subject to the Creative Commons license and may not be reproduced without the prior and express written Compute the first-year depreciation using the units-of-production method. How does the actual recording of a transaction take place? The credit column totals $7,500 (300 + 100 + 3,500 + 3,600). Why is revenue reported at the time of sale rather than when the cash is eventually collected? The date of each transaction related to this account is included, a possible description of the transaction, and a reference number if available. On January 9, a debit of $4,000 was included. If not, which one? It is a good idea to familiarize yourself with the type of information companies report each year. LO Cash was received, thus increasing the Cash account. Peruse Best Buys 2017 annual report to learn more about Best Buy. On January 20, 2019, paid $3,600 cash in salaries expense to employees. Cash has a credit of $100. As a smaller grocery store, Colfax does not offer the variety of products found in a larger supermarket or chain. A list of all recorded journal entries is maintained in a journal (also referred to as a general journal), which is one of the most important components within any accounting system. Account titles and You paid on account. Remember that on account means a service was performed or an item was received without being paid for. Debit LO You purchased the gas on account. You pay your local newspaper $35 to run an advertisement in this weeks paper. That is normal and to be expected. Their importance within financial accounting can hardly be overstated. Figure 4.5 Journal Entry 2: Salary Paid to Employees. You are now paying down some of the money you owe on that account. Explain the purpose of the matching principle. You have mowed lawns and earned more revenue. In practice, the date of each transaction could also be included here. An accounting journal entry is the method used to enter an accounting transaction into the accounting records of a business. Because of the direct impact on net income, such recognition issues are among the most complicated and controversial in accounting. Assume further that this company already has the account balances presented in Figure 4.3 Balances Taken From T-accounts in Ledger in its T-accounts before making this last group of journal entries. LO Impact on the financial statements: There is an increase to a liability and an increase to assets. Financial Accounting by University of Minnesota is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Expenses are reported on the income statement. You have incurred more expenses, so you want to increase an expense account. Accounts Receivable was originally used to recognize the future customer payment; now that the customer has paid in full, Accounts Receivable will decrease. How are all of these gift card sales affecting one of Americas favorite specialty coffee companies, Starbucks? This is posted to the Cash T-account on the debit side. $ 1,000 February 10, paid creditor for part of January 22 purchase, $1,600, July 1, issued common stock for cash, $15,000, July 15, purchased supplies, on account, $1,800, July 25, billed customer for accounting services provided, $950, March 1, purchased land for cash, $20,000, March 11, purchased merchandise inventory, on account, $18,500, March 15, Sold merchandise to customer for cash, $555, provided legal services to customers for cash, $5,600, provided legal services to customers on account, $4,700, collected cash from customer accounts, $3,500, purchased merchandise inventory on account, $22,000, paid vendors for part of inventory purchased earlier in month, $14,000, purchased merchandise inventory for cash, $6,500. Therefore, it might only have a few accounts payable and inventory journal entries each month. The next transaction figure of $2,800 is added directly below the January 9 record on the debit side. The new entry is recorded under the Jan 10 record, posted to the Service Revenue T-account on the credit side. Dividends is a part of stockholders equity and is recorded on the debit side. Figure 4.3 Balances Taken From T-accounts in Ledger. 2a. The process to prepare a journal entry or in other words make a journal entry from scratch is divided into 4 different steps. Services are performed for customers for a total of $4,500. To make a complete journal entry you need the following elements: A reference number or also known as the journal entry number, which is unique for every transaction. Here are the steps to making an accounting journal entry. OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. 3.1Identify the normal balance for each of the following accounts. Swift estimates that $2,000 of its accounts receivable is uncollectible and records the year-end adjusting entry. For the revenue reported in Journal Entry 4A, assuming that the Lawndale Company has substantially completed the work required of this sale and $5,000 is a reasonable estimate of the amount that will be collected, recognition at the time of sale is appropriate. and you must attribute OpenStax. 3.5 Use Journal Entries to Record Transactions and Post to T-Accounts; 3.6 Prepare a Trial Balance; Key Terms; Summary; . Accrual accounting provides standard guidance (in the United States and throughout much of the world). Expense accounts increase with debit entries. 2. The company uses the gross method and a perpetual inventory system. Prepare journal entries to record each of the following transactions of a merchandising company. As the study of financial accounting progresses into more complex situations, both of these criteria will require careful analysis and understanding. First, Divide "100%" by the number of years in the asset's useful life, this is your straight-line depreciation rate. are licensed under a, Use Journal Entries to Record Transactions and Post to T-Accounts, Explain the Importance of Accounting and Distinguish between Financial and Managerial Accounting, Identify Users of Accounting Information and How They Apply Information, Describe Typical Accounting Activities and the Role Accountants Play in Identifying, Recording, and Reporting Financial Activities, Explain Why Accounting Is Important to Business Stakeholders, Describe the Varied Career Paths Open to Individuals with an Accounting Education, Describe the Income Statement, Statement of Owners Equity, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows, and How They Interrelate, Define, Explain, and Provide Examples of Current and Noncurrent Assets, Current and Noncurrent Liabilities, Equity, Revenues, and Expenses, Prepare an Income Statement, Statement of Owners Equity, and Balance Sheet, Describe Principles, Assumptions, and Concepts of Accounting and Their Relationship to Financial Statements, Define and Describe the Expanded Accounting Equation and Its Relationship to Analyzing Transactions, Define and Describe the Initial Steps in the Accounting Cycle, Analyze Business Transactions Using the Accounting Equation and Show the Impact of Business Transactions on Financial Statements, Explain the Concepts and Guidelines Affecting Adjusting Entries, Discuss the Adjustment Process and Illustrate Common Types of Adjusting Entries, Record and Post the Common Types of Adjusting Entries, Use the Ledger Balances to Prepare an Adjusted Trial Balance, Prepare Financial Statements Using the Adjusted Trial Balance, Describe and Prepare Closing Entries for a Business, Apply the Results from the Adjusted Trial Balance to Compute Current Ratio and Working Capital Balance, and Explain How These Measures Represent Liquidity, Appendix: Complete a Comprehensive Accounting Cycle for a Business, Compare and Contrast Merchandising versus Service Activities and Transactions, Compare and Contrast Perpetual versus Periodic Inventory Systems, Analyze and Record Transactions for Merchandise Purchases Using the Perpetual Inventory System, Analyze and Record Transactions for the Sale of Merchandise Using the Perpetual Inventory System, Discuss and Record Transactions Applying the Two Commonly Used Freight-In Methods, Describe and Prepare Multi-Step and Simple Income Statements for Merchandising Companies, Appendix: Analyze and Record Transactions for Merchandise Purchases and Sales Using the Periodic Inventory System, Define and Describe the Components of an Accounting Information System, Describe and Explain the Purpose of Special Journals and Their Importance to Stakeholders, Analyze and Journalize Transactions Using Special Journals, Describe Career Paths Open to Individuals with a Joint Education in Accounting and Information Systems, Analyze Fraud in the Accounting Workplace, Define and Explain Internal Controls and Their Purpose within an Organization, Describe Internal Controls within an Organization, Define the Purpose and Use of a Petty Cash Fund, and Prepare Petty Cash Journal Entries, Discuss Management Responsibilities for Maintaining Internal Controls within an Organization, Define the Purpose of a Bank Reconciliation, and Prepare a Bank Reconciliation and Its Associated Journal Entries, Describe Fraud in Financial Statements and Sarbanes-Oxley Act Requirements, Explain the Revenue Recognition Principle and How It Relates to Current and Future Sales and Purchase Transactions, Account for Uncollectible Accounts Using the Balance Sheet and Income Statement Approaches, Determine the Efficiency of Receivables Management Using Financial Ratios, Discuss the Role of Accounting for Receivables in Earnings Management, Apply Revenue Recognition Principles to Long-Term Projects, Explain How Notes Receivable and Accounts Receivable Differ, Appendix: Comprehensive Example of Bad Debt Estimation, Describe and Demonstrate the Basic Inventory Valuation Methods and Their Cost Flow Assumptions, Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold and Ending Inventory Using the Periodic Method, Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold and Ending Inventory Using the Perpetual Method, Explain and Demonstrate the Impact of Inventory Valuation Errors on the Income Statement and Balance Sheet, Examine the Efficiency of Inventory Management Using Financial Ratios, Distinguish between Tangible and Intangible Assets, Analyze and Classify Capitalized Costs versus Expenses, Explain and Apply Depreciation Methods to Allocate Capitalized Costs, Describe Accounting for Intangible Assets and Record Related Transactions, Describe Some Special Issues in Accounting for Long-Term Assets, Identify and Describe Current Liabilities, Analyze, Journalize, and Report Current Liabilities, Define and Apply Accounting Treatment for Contingent Liabilities, Prepare Journal Entries to Record Short-Term Notes Payable, Record Transactions Incurred in Preparing Payroll, Explain the Pricing of Long-Term Liabilities, Compute Amortization of Long-Term Liabilities Using the Effective-Interest Method, Prepare Journal Entries to Reflect the Life Cycle of Bonds, Appendix: Special Topics Related to Long-Term Liabilities, Explain the Process of Securing Equity Financing through the Issuance of Stock, Analyze and Record Transactions for the Issuance and Repurchase of Stock, Record Transactions and the Effects on Financial Statements for Cash Dividends, Property Dividends, Stock Dividends, and Stock Splits, Compare and Contrast Owners Equity versus Retained Earnings, Discuss the Applicability of Earnings per Share as a Method to Measure Performance, Describe the Advantages and Disadvantages of Organizing as a Partnership, Describe How a Partnership Is Created, Including the Associated Journal Entries, Compute and Allocate Partners Share of Income and Loss, Prepare Journal Entries to Record the Admission and Withdrawal of a Partner, Discuss and Record Entries for the Dissolution of a Partnership, Explain the Purpose of the Statement of Cash Flows, Differentiate between Operating, Investing, and Financing Activities, Prepare the Statement of Cash Flows Using the Indirect Method, Prepare the Completed Statement of Cash Flows Using the Indirect Method, Use Information from the Statement of Cash Flows to Prepare Ratios to Assess Liquidity and Solvency, Appendix: Prepare a Completed Statement of Cash Flows Using the Direct Method, Summary of T-Accounts for Printing Plus. $ 2,800 is added directly below the $ 20,000 on the debit side a 501 ( ). 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