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On December 31,2014, Surreal Painters Inc. had a cash balance per its books of $ 9,204. It received its December monthly bank statement which showed a balance of $ 10,655. After comparing its bank statement to its Cash account in its accounting records, Surreal Painters noticed the following:
1. The December 31 deposit of $3,506 was not included on the December bank statement.
2. There was one cheque outstanding on November 30, cheque #645 for $1,785. It did clear the bank account in December. Surreal Painters wrote cheques #646 for $255, #647 for $943, and #648 for $1,387 during December. From these cheques, only cheque #646 has been cleared.
3. A review of the bank statement revealed that Surreal Painters received electronic payments from customers on account of $3,581 in December.
4. The statement included a debit memo of $47 for bank service charges.
5. The company deposited cash sales of $649 on December 20. The cash receipts journal entry and deposit slip were prepared and recorded as $694. The bank detected the error on the deposit slip and credited Surreal Painters for the correct amount.
6. The bank statement showed that on December 17 an NSF charge of $847 for a cheque issued by P. Cezanne, a customer in payment of their account. The account was also debited for a $15 bank service charge.
Instructions:
a) Prepare the necessary adjusting entries at December 31.

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