Due to the terms of its lease, Hawke Services, Inc., pays the rent for its new office

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Due to the terms of its lease, Hawke Services, Inc., pays the rent for its new office space in one annual payment of $26,800 on August 1, 2018. The lease covers the period of August 1, 2018, through July 31, 2019. Hawke Services has a year-end of December 31. Assume that Hawke Services had no other prepaid rent transactions, nor did it have a Prepaid Rent beginning balance in 2018. Give the journal entries that Hawke Services would make for

(a) The annual rent payment of $26,800 on August 1 and

(b) The adjusting entry for rent expense on December 31, 2018. What is the balance of Prepaid Rent at December 31, 2018?

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Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0134725987

12th edition

Authors: C. William Thomas, Wendy M. Tietz, Walter T. Harrison Jr.

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