A-Farah Youssef operates as a sole trader. Below is a trial balance extracted from her books as
Question:
A-Farah Youssef operates as a sole trader. Below is a trial balance extracted from her books as at 31 December 2020.
Trial balance for Farah Youssef as at 31 December 2020
Debit | Credit | |
£ _ . | £ | |
Sales revenue | 695,000 | |
Inventory (as at 1 January 2020) | 105,800 | |
Purchases | 625,200 | |
Non-current assets at cost: | ||
Equipment | 100,000 | |
Motor vehicle | 80,000 | |
Accumulated depreciation: | ||
Equipment | 10,000 | |
Motor vehicle | 10,000 | |
Insurance | 14,700 | |
Rent | 30,000 | |
Heating and lighting | 10,000 | |
Salaries and wages | 40,000 | |
Motor expenses | 15,300 | |
Miscellaneous expenses | 28,500 | |
Receivables | 110,000 | |
Allowance for receivables | 4,000 | |
Payables | 101,500 | |
Cash | 71,000 | |
Bank loan | 100,000 | |
Capital | 310,000 | |
Total | 1,230,500 | 1,230,500 |
Additional information is provided for use in preparing the company’s adjustments:
- The value of closing inventory is £102,500.
- On December 1, Farah Company borrowed £100,000, at 6% annual interest, from the National Bank. Farah Company has 120 days before the first payment is required.
- Farah has paid her rent until 31 March 2021. Her annual rent is £24,000.
- Office equipment has a useful life of ten years and a residual value of £0. It is to be depreciated on a straight-line basis.
- The motor vehicle with a useful life of ten years and an estimated residual value of £30,000 is to be depreciated on a straight-line basis at a rate of 10%.
- Farah finds that receivables of £10,000 need to be written off as irrecoverable.
- The allowance for receivables is to be set at ten per cent of the remaining outstanding receivables as at 31 December 2020.
- The heating bill will arrive on 5 January and about £1,000 is expected to relate to the period until 31 December.
Required:
- Make the end-of-period adjustments entries.
- Prepare Farah’s income statement for the year ended December 31, 2020.
- Prepare Farah’s balance sheet as at December 31, 2020.
- How do the adjusting entries differ from other journal entries?? Explain why adjusting entries are needed.
Financial Management for Decision Makers
ISBN: 978-0138011604
2nd Canadian edition
Authors: Peter Atrill, Paul Hurley