Current Attempt in Progress Swifty Wholesalers Ltd. has a December 31 year end. The company incurred the following transactions related to current liabilities: 1. 2 3. 5. 6. Swifty's cash register showed the following totals at the end of the day on March 17: pre-tax sales $55,000, GST $2,750, and PST $3,850. Swifty remitted $49,000 of sales taxes owing from March to the government on April 30. Swifty paid its employees for the week of August 15 on August 20. The gross pay was $80,000. The company deducted $4,240 for CPP. $1,264 for El, $6,400 for pension, and $16,020 for income tax from the employees' pay. Swifty recorded the employer portions of CPP and El for the week of August 15 on August 20 for $4,240 and $1,770, respectively. On September 15, all amounts owing for employee income taxes, CPP, and El pertaining to the payroll transactions above were paid. On December 31, Swifty's legal counsel believes that the company will have to pay damages of $62,000 next year to a local utility company. (Hint: This will affect the Utility Expense account.) Record journal entries for the transactions above. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter O for the amounts. Record journal entries in the order presented in the problem. List all debit entries before credit entries.)
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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