The trial balance of Leeway Investors as at 31 December 20x6 (financial year end), is given below

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The trial balance of Leeway Investors as at 31 December 20x6 (financial year end), is given below together with additional information:

Additional information:

1. Wages earned by employees in December 20x6 but only paid in 20x7 are R400.

2. Unused office supplies on hand at 31 December 20x6 total R250.

3. Interest owing on mortgage bond for 20x6 but not yet paid is R225.

4. Equipment, purchased 1 January 20x6, must be depreciated at the rate of 10% on cost.

5. Rent income in advance and not earned, R300.

6. Interest earned on government bonds but not yet received, R200.

7. Advertising costs paid that relate to the 20x7 financial year are R150.


You are required to:

1. Record adjustments 1 to 7 on a worksheet (add new accounts where necessary) and complete the worksheet.

2. Use the completed worksheet to prepare the annual financial statements.

3. Use the information from the worksheet to open all the ledger accounts you have listed.

Then enter the trial balance figures and record adjustments 1 to 7.

4. Compare your adjusted account balances with those on the worksheet and pass the closing entries to the profit and loss account. Then balance the ledger accounts.

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Fundamental Accounting

ISBN: 9781485112112

7th Edition

Authors: David Flynn, Carolina Koornhof, Ronald Arendse, Anna C. E. Coetzee, Edwardo Muriro, Louise Christel Posthumus, Louise Mancy Smit

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