Speedy Packn Mail completed the following transactions during 2016: Nov. 1 Paid $5,200 store rent covering the
Question:
Speedy Pack’n Mail completed the following transactions during 2016:
Nov. 1 Paid $5,200 store rent covering the four-month period ending February 28, 2017.
1 Paid $9,600 insurance covering the six-month period ending April 30, 2017.
Dec. 1 Collected $5,400 cash in advance from customers. The service revenue will be earned $1,800 monthly over the three-month period ending February 28, 2017.
1 Collected $10,000 cash in advance from customers. The service revenue will be earned $2,000 monthly over the five-month period ending April 30, 2017.
Requirements
1. Journalize the transactions assuming that Speedy Pack’n Mail debits an asset account for prepaid expenses and credits a liability account for unearned revenues.
2. Journalize the related adjusting entries at December 31, 2016.
3. Post the journal and adjusting entries to the T-accounts, and show their balances at December 31, 2016. (Ignore the Cash account.)
4. Repeat Requirements 1-3. This time debit an expense account for prepaid expenses and credit a revenue account for unearned revenues.
5. Compare the account balances in Requirements 3 and 4. They should be equal.
Step by Step Answer:
Horngrens Financial and Managerial Accounting
ISBN: 978-0133866292
5th edition
Authors: Tracie L. Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura