ACE Corporation prepares monthly financial statements. Below are listed some selected accounts and their balances on the September 30 unadjusted trial balance before any adjustments have been made for the month of September. ACE CORPORATION Trial Balance September 30, 2022 Credit Debit $10,200 Cash... Supplies 3,000 Prepaid insurance. 5,775 Equipment.... 16,000 Accumulated depreciation-Equipment.. Accounts payable... $0 1,940 1,200 7,700 Deferred revenue. Common shares... Retained earnings.. Service revenue. 18,925 6,360 Salaries expense 1.150 Total.. $36,125 $36.125 An analysis of the account balances provided the following additional information: 1. A physical count of supplies revealed $1,700 on hand on September 30 (part of the supplies were used) 2. The equipment was purchased on July 1st 2022 for $16,000 and has an estimated useful life of four years. 3. The $1,200 deferred revenue in the trial balance was due to customer paying for service that has not been performed yet. As of end of September 30, 2022, $700 worth of service have been performed. 4. Income tax of $1000 is owed. Instructions (a) Using the above additional information, prepare the adjusting entries that should be made by ACE on September 30 (adjusting entries are made on a monthly basis). (8) Prepare an adjusted trial balance at September 30. (12) (b)
The Effect Of Prepaid Taxes On Assets And Liabilities
Many businesses estimate tax liability and make payments throughout the year (often quarterly). When a company overestimates its tax liability, this results in the business paying a prepaid tax. Prepaid taxes will be reversed within one year but can result in prepaid assets and liabilities.
Final Accounts
Financial accounting is one of the branches of accounting in which the transactions arising in the business over a particular period are recorded.
Ledger Posting
A ledger is an account that provides information on all the transactions that have taken place during a particular period. It is also known as General Ledger. For example, your bank account statement is a general ledger that gives information about the amount paid/debited or received/ credited from your bank account over some time.
Trial Balance and Final Accounts
In accounting we start with recording transaction with journal entries then we make separate ledger account for each type of transaction. It is very necessary to check and verify that the transaction transferred to ledgers from the journal are accurately recorded or not. Trial balance helps in this. Trial balance helps to check the accuracy of posting the ledger accounts. It helps the accountant to assist in preparing final accounts. It also helps the accountant to check whether all the debits and credits of items are recorded and posted accurately. Like in a balance sheet debit and credit side should be equal, similarly in trial balance debit balance and credit balance should tally.
Adjustment Entries
At the end of every accounting period Adjustment Entries are made in order to adjust the accounts precisely replicate the expenses and revenue of the current period. It is also known as end of period adjustment. It can also be referred as financial reporting that corrects the errors made previously in the accounting period. The basic characteristics of every adjustment entry is that it affects at least one real account and one nominal account.
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