Record the events under an accounting equation after all

Question

Part 1:

1. Missing information in the accounting equation

 

Required

 

Calculate the missing amounts in the following table.

 

					Stockholders' Equity
					Company		Retained
Company	Assets	=	Liabilities	+	Stock	+	Earnings
A	$  ?		$25,000		48,000		$50,000
B	40,000		?		7,000		30,000
C	75,000		15,000		?		42,000
D	125,000		45,000		60,000		?

2. Effect of transactions on general ledger accounts

 

At the beginning of 2016, Better Corp.'s accounting records had the following general ledger ac­counts and balances.

 

Better Crp. Accounting Equation
Event	Assets      =		Liabilities   +	Stockholders' Equity		Acct. Titles for RE
	Cash	Land	Notes Payable	Common Stock	Retained Earnings
Balance 1/1/2016	10,000	20,000	12,000	7,000	11,000

 

Better Corp. completed the following transactions during 2016:

 

1. Purchased land for 55.000 cash.

 

2. Acquired $25,000 cash from the issue of common stock.

 

3. Received $75,000 cash for providing services to customers.

 

4. Paid cash operating expenses of 542.000.

 

5. Borrowed $10,000 cash from the bank.

 

6. Paid a $5,000 cash dividend to the stockholders.

 

7. Determined that the market value of the land purchased in event 1 is 535.000. Required

 

a. Record the transactions in the appropriate general ledger accounts. Record the amounts of revenue, expense, and dividends in the Retained Earnings column. Provide the appropriate titles for these accounts in the last column of the table.

 

b. As of December 31. 2016. Determine the total amount of assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity and present this information in the form of an accounting equation.

 

c. What is the amount of total assets, liabilities and stockholders' equity as of January 1.2017? Exercise 1-7A Missing information and recording events

 

2.Missing information and recording events

As of December 31, 2016, Moss Company had total cash of S195.000. Notes payable of 590.500, and common stock of $84.500. During 2017. Moss earned 542.000 of cash revenue paid S24.000 for cash expenses. and paid a $3,000 cash dividend to the stockholders.

 

Required

 

a. Determine the amount of retained earnings as of December 31. 2016.

 

b. Create an accounting equation and record the beginning account balances under the appro­priate elements.

 

c. Record the revenue, expense. and dividend events under the appropriate elements of the ac­counting equation created in Requirement b.

 

d. Prove the equality of the accounting equation as of December 31. 2017.

 

e. Identify the beginning and ending balances in the Cash and Common Stock accounts. Ex­plain why the beginning and ending balances in the Cash account are different but the begin­ning and ending balances in the Common Stock account remain the same.

4. Account titles and the accounting equation

 

The following account titles were drawn from the general ledger of Holt Food Supplies. Incorpo­rated (HFSI): Computers. Operating Expenses. Rent Revenue. Building. Cash. Notes Payable. Land, Utilities Payable, Utilities Expense. Trucks. Gasoline Expense. Retained Earnings. Sup­plies, Accounts Payable. Office Furniture. Salaries Expense. Common Stock. Service Revenue. Interest Expense, Dividends, Supplies Expense.

 

Required

 

a. Create an accounting equation using the elements assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity. List each account title under the element of the accounting equation to which it belongs.

 

b. Will all businesses have the same number of accounts? Explain your answer. Exercise 1--9A Components of the accounting equation

 

5. Components of the accounting equation

Jones Enterprises was started when it acquired $6,000 cash from creditors and $10,000 from owners. The company immediately purchased land that cost $12,000.

 

Required

 

a. Record the events under an accounting equation.

 

b. After all events have been recorded, Jones's obligations to creditors represent what percent of total assets?

 

c. After all events have been recorded, Jones's stockholders' equity represents what percent of total assets?

 

d. Assume the debt is due. Given that Jones has $10,000 in stockholders' equity, can the com­pany repay the creditors at this point? Why or why not?

 

6. Components of the accounting equation

 

	Assets	=	Liabilities	+	Common Stock	+	Retained Earnings
Allen	$10,000	=	$7,500		$2,000	+	$ 500
White	$12,000	=	S3.000		$7,200	+	$1,800

 

 

Required

 

a. Based on this information alone, can you determine whether White can pay a $2,000 cash dividend? Why or why not?

 

b. Reconstruct the accounting equation for each company using percentages on the right side of the equation instead of dollar values. Which company is more financially stable? Why?

 

c. Assume Allen incurs a $3,500 operating loss. The remaining assets are sold for the value shown on the books, and the cash proceeds are distributed to the creditors and investors. How much money will be paid to creditors and how much will be paid to investors?

 

d. Assume White incurs a $3,500 operating loss. The remaining assets are sold for the value shown on the books, and the cash proceeds are distributed to the creditors and investors. How much money will be paid to creditors and how much will be paid to investors?

 

Part 2

Question 1: What is the accounting equation? Why is this important to the practice of accounting? Please provide an example of how the accounting equation works with recording transactions within a business.

Question 2: Is there a difference between bookkeeping and accounting? Discuss.

Question 3: Accounting reports past performance. How can this be useful when planning future operations?