You have just landed an accounting position with Freddy's Fresh Food, a company that has several Food
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You have just landed an accounting position with Freddy's Fresh Food, a company that has several Food Trucks that show up around town at events. Because this is your first job you are eager to please your supervisor who works closely with the owner. Your supervisor has just told you that the owner is concerned that profits this year are much less than profits in the preceding five years.
Your supervisor gives you an adjusting journal entry to correct what she calls "expense transfers". The entry transfers costs originally recorded as repairs and maintenance to capital assets.
A discussion posting to address:
- What is the proper accounting treatment for repairs and maintenance and plant assets?
- What information do you need to determine how to properly record the costs for Freddy's Fresh Food truck expenses?
- What is your supervisor trying to accomplish with the suggested "expense transfers" entry on Freddy's Fresh Food books?
- What would be your course of action regarding the suggested entry?
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Foundations of Finance The Logic and Practice of Financial Management
ISBN: 978-0132994873
8th edition
Authors: Arthur J. Keown, John D. Martin, J. William Petty
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