Question: Comprehensive Problem Bug Off Exterminators Bug-Off Exterminators provides pest control services and sells extermination products manufactured by other companies. Following is the companys unadjusted trial

Comprehensive Problem Bug Off Exterminators

Bug-Off Exterminators provides pest control services and sells extermination products manufactured by other companies. Following is the companys unadjusted trial balance as of December 31, 2013.

Bug Off Exterminators

December 31, 2013

Unadjusted Trial Balance

Cash

$17, 900

Accounts Receivable

4,500

Allowance for doubtful accounts

$813

Merchandise inventory

13,600

Trucks

31, 860

Accum. Depreciation-Equipment

0

Accounts Payable

5400

Estimated warranty liability

1390

Unearned services revenue

0

Interest Payable

0

Long-term notes payable

13, 100

D. Buggs, Capital

68,622

D. Buggs, Withdrawals

11, 700

Extermination services revenue

59, 030

Interest Revenue

853

Sales (Of merchandise)

72, 326

Cost of Goods Sold

47, 100

Depreciation expense-Trucks

0

Depreciation expense-Equipment

0

Wages Expense

35,500

Interest Expense

0

Rent Expense

10, 400

Bad debts expense

0

Misc. Expense

1,244

Repairs expense

8, 400

Utilities Expense

5, 900

Warranty Expense

0

Totals

$234, 9934

$234, 934

The following information in a through h applies to the company at the end of the current year.

A. The bank reconciliation as of December 31, 2013, includes the following facts:

Cash balance per bank

13, 500

Cash balance per books

17, 900

Outstanding checks

1, 820

Deposit in transit

2,420

Interest earned (on bank account)

39

Bank service charges (misc. expense)

24

Reported on the bank statement is a canceled check that the company failed to record.

(Information from the bank reconciliation allows you to determine the amount of this check, which is a payment on an account payable).

B. An examination of customers accounts shows that accounts totaling $672 should be written off as uncollectible. Using an aging of receivables, the company determines that the ending balance of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts should be $715.

C. A truck is purchased and placed in service on January 1, 2013. Its cost is being depreciated with the straight-line method using the following facts and estimates.

Original Cost

$31, 860

Expected Salvage Value

7,300

Useful Life

4

D. Two items of equipment (a sprayer and an injector) were purchased and put into service in early January 2011. They are being depreciated with the straight-line method using these facts and estimates.

Original Cost

$28, 180

$18,650

Expected Salvage Value

3,700

2,700

Useful Life (years)

8

5

e. On August 1, 2013, the company is paid $3,720 cash in advance to provide monthly service for an apartment complex for one year. The company began providing the services in August. When the cash was received, the full amount was credited to the Extermination Services Revenue account.

E. The company offers a warranty for the services it sells. The expected cost of providing warranty service is 1.5% of the extermination services revenue of $56,860 for 2013. No warranty expense has been recorded for 2013. All costs of servicing warranties in 2013 were properly debited to the Estimated Warranty Liability account.

F. The $13,100 long-term note is an 9%, 5-year, interest-bearing note with interest payable annually on December 31. The note was signed with First National Bank on December 31, 2013.

G. The ending inventory of merchandise is counted and determined to have a cost of $13,600. Bug-Off uses a perpetual inventory system.

Required:

1.

Use the preceding information to determine amounts for the following items.

a.

Correct (reconciled) ending balance of Cash, and the amount of the omitted check

Reconciled Balance

Omitted Check

b. Adjustment needed to obtain the correct ending balance of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.

Necessary Adjustment

C. Depreciation expense for the truck used during year 2013.

Depreciation expense

D. Depreciation expense for the two items of equipment used during year 2013.

Sprayer

Injector

Depreciation Expense

E. The adjusted 2013 ending balances for the Extermination Services Revenue and Unearned Services Revenue Accounts (Do not round your intermediate calculations)

Services Revenue

Unearned

Services Revenue

Ending balances after adjustment

F. The adjusted 2013 ending balances of the accounts for Warranty Expense and Estimated Warranty Liability.

Warranty Expense

Estimated

Warranty Liability

Ending Balances after Adjustment

H. The adjusted 2013 ending balances of the accounts for Interest Expense and Interest Payable.

Interest Expense

Interest Payable

Ending balances after adjustment

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