Salmon Swim Centre uses a sales journal, purchases journal, cash receipts journal, cash payments journal and a

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Salmon Swim Centre uses a sales journal, purchases journal, cash receipts journal, cash payments journal and a general journal. The business also maintains subsidiary ledgers for accounts receivable and accounts payable, in addition to the related control accounts (ignore GST). The relevant account balances as of 31 December 2016 were as follows:





Account balance

Account no.


Account title

Debit


Credit

100

120

140

200

300

330

400

500

510

520

600

610


Cash at Bank

Accounts Receivable

Inventory

Equipment

Accounts Payable

Bank Loan

S. Salmon, Capital

Sales

Sales Returns and Allowances

Discount Received

Purchases

Discount Allowed


$  10800

13200

19000

250000






         —







$  11000

120000

162000







$293000



$293000


The accounts receivable and accounts payable subsidiary ledger balances were as follows:


Accounts receivable


Accounts payable

M. Falzon

S H Guan

R. Jamal

A. Khalil

K. Mezzini


$  2640

1760

4400

3300

1100


Nelligan Ltd

Pellham & Co

Yap United Ltd

Total


$  2200

2200

6600

$11000



$13200






The following transactions occurred during the first quarter of 2017:


Jan.


3

11

15

18

20

25


S H Guan took advantage of the 2% sales discount and paid off her account.

Sold a $2000 item to K. Mezzini on account, invoice 401.

Purchased $6000 of inventory from Pellham & Co on credit. The terms were 2/10, n/30.

Received $1200 from M. Falzon on his account. No discount was allowed.

Paid $2200 to Pellham & Co on its previous account balance. No discount was taken.

Paid $6000 owing to Pellham & Co, taking advantage of the 2% discount.


Feb.




Mar.

10

14

23

28

4

16

22

27


A cash sale of $4000 was made to a new customer, E. Tsiros.

R. Jamal paid $2200 on his account, outside the discount period.

Sold a $1000 item to K. Mezzini on account, invoice 402.

Paid $4400 on the Yap United Ltd account. No discount was received.

Purchased $8000 in inventory from Nelligan Ltd on credit. Terms were n/30.

Sold a $100 item to A. Khalil on account, invoice 403.

Paid $4400 on the Nelligan Ltd account.

A $100 sales allowance was given to A. Khalil, due to a defective product.


Required

A. Enter the first quarter’s transactions in the appropriate journals.

B. Open the necessary general ledger accounts, the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger accounts, and the accounts payable subsidiary ledger accounts.

C. Post the data from the journals to the appropriate general ledger and subsidiary ledger accounts.

D. Prepare a schedule of accounts receivable and accounts payable as at 31 March 2017, to confirm the balances in the control accounts.

E. Prepare a trial balance as at 31 March 2017.

Accounts Payable
Accounts payable (AP) are bills to be paid as part of the normal course of business.This is a standard accounting term, one of the most common liabilities, which normally appears in the balance sheet listing of liabilities. Businesses receive...
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...
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