Identifying accounting adjustments


Question 1: Identifying accounting adjustments

Question 2: Classify the following adjusting entries as involving prepaid expenses (PE), unearned revenues (UR), accrued expenses (AE), or accrued revenues (AR).

a. To record revenue earned that was previously received as cash in advance.

b. To record annual depreciation expense.

c. To record wages expense incurred but not yet paid (nor recorded).

d. To record revenue earned but not yet billed (nor recorded).

e. To record expiration of prepaid insurance.

Question 3: Computing accrual and cash income

In its first year of operations, Harden Co. earned $39,000 in revenues and received $33,000 cash from

these customers. The company incurred expenses of $22,500 but had not paid $2,250 of them at year-end.

Harden also prepaid $3,750 cash for expenses that would be incurred the next year. Calculate the first year's net income under both the cash basis and the accrual basis of accounting.

In the blank space beside each adjusting entry, enter the letter of the explanation A through F that most closely describes the entry:

A. To record this period's depreciation expense.

B. To record accrued salaries expense.

C. To record this period's use of a prepaid expense.

Question 4: Classifying adjusting entries

D. To record accrued interest revenue.

E. To record accrued interest expense.

F. To record the earning of previously un-earned income.

1. Salaries Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,280

Salaries Payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,280

2. Interest Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,208

Interest Payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,208

3. Insurance Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,180

Prepaid Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,180

4. Unearned Professional Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,250

Professional Fees Earned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,250

5. Interest Receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,300

Interest Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,300

6. Depreciation Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,217

Accumulated Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,217

Determining assets and expenses

for accrual and cash accounting

Question 5: On March 1, 2003, a company paid a $16,200 premium on a 36-month insurance policy for cover-age beginning on that date. Refer to that policy and fill in the blanks in the following table:

Check 2005 insurance expense: Accrual, $5,400; Cash, $0. Dec. 31, 2005, asset: Accrual, $900; Cash, $0.

Balance sheet Insurance asset using                                                   Insurance Expense using

  Acccural Basis                            Cash Basis                   Accrulal Basis                Cash Basis

Dec.31, 2003 $__________                $_______                 2003$_______                   $________

Dec. 31,2004$__________                 $_______                 2004$_______                   $________

Dec 31, 2005 $__________                $_______                 2005$_______                   $________

Dec 31,2006 $__________                 $_______                 2006$_______                   $________

                                                                                      Total $__________  $_________

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