Chapter 3: 19DQ (page 139)
Why are the debit and credit entries in the Adjustments columns of the work sheet identified with letters?
Answer:
Letters are used for debit and credit entries to check that entry is complete.
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Question: Choose from the following list of terms/phrases to best complete the statements below.
a. Fiscal year d. Accounting period g. Natural business year
b. Timeliness e. Annual financial statements h. Time period assumption
c. Calendar year f. Interim financial statements i. Quarterly statements
1. presumes that an organization’s activities can be divided into specific time periods.
2. Financial reports covering a one-year period are known as .
3. A(n)consists of any 12 consecutive months.
4. A(n)consists of 12 consecutive months ending on December 31.
5. The value of information is often linked to its .
Question: What is a prepaid expense, and where is it reported in the financial statements?
Question:Prepare year-end adjusting journal entries for M&R Company as of December 31, 2017, for each of the
following separate cases. (Entries can draw from the following partial chart of accounts: Cash; Accounts
Receivable; Interest Receivable; Equipment; Wages Payable; Salary Payable; Interest Payable; Lawn
Services Payable; Unearned Revenue; Revenue; Interest Revenue; Wages Expense; Salary Expense;
Supplies Expense; Lawn Services Expense; Interest Expense.)
a. M&R Company provided \(2,000 in services to customers that are expected to pay the company sometime
in January following the company’s year-end.
b. Wage expenses of \)1,000 have been incurred but are not paid as of December 31.
c. M&R Company has a \(5,000 bank loan and has incurred (but not recorded) 8% interest expense of
\)400 for the year ended December 31. The company will pay the \(400 interest in cash on January 2
following the company’s year-end.
d. M&R Company hired a firm to provide lawn services at a monthly fee of \)500 with payment occurring
on the 15th of the following month. Payment for December services will occur on January 15
following the company’s year-end.
e. M&R Company has earned \(200 in interest revenue from investments for the year ended December
31. The interest revenue will be received on January 15 following the company’s year-end.
f. Salary expenses of \)900 have been earned by supervisors but not paid as of December 31.
Question: For each case below, follow the three-step process for adjusting the unearned revenue liability
account on December 31. Step 1: Determine what the current account balance equals. Step 2: Determine
what the current account balance should equal. Step 3: Record the December 31 adjusting entry to get
from step 1 to step 2. Assume no other adjusting entries are made during the year.
a. Unearned Rent Revenue. The Krug Company collected \(6,000 rent in advance on November 1, debiting
Cash and crediting Unearned Rent Revenue. The tenant was paying 12 months’ rent in advance
and occupancy began November 1.
b. Unearned Services Revenue. The company charges \)75 per month to spray a house for insects. A
customer paid \(300 on October 1 in advance for four treatments, which was recorded with a debit to
Cash and a credit to Unearned Services Revenue. At year-end, the company has applied three treatments
for the customer.
c. Unearned Rent Revenue. On September 1, a client paid the company \)24,000 cash for six months of
rent in advance (the client leased a building and took occupancy immediately). The company recorded
the cash as Unearned Rent Revenue.
Adjusting entries affect at least one balance sheet account and at least one income statement account.
For the entries below, identify the account to be debited and the account to be credited from the following
accounts: Cash; Accounts Receivable; Prepaid Insurance; Equipment; Accumulated
Depreciation; Wages Payable; Unearned Revenue; Revenue; Wages Expense; Insurance Expense;
Depreciation Expense. Indicate which of the accounts is the income statement account and which is
the balance sheet account.
a. Entry to record revenue earned that was previously received as cash in advance.
b. Entry to record wage expenses incurred but not yet paid (nor recorded).
c. Entry to record revenue earned but not yet billed (nor recorded).
d. Entry to record expiration of prepaid insurance.
e. Entry to record annual depreciation expense.
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