Post-Closing Trial Balance An accountant prepared the following post-closing trial balance: Security Services Co. Post-Closing Trial Balance July 31, 2018 Debit Balances Credit Balances Cash 12,600 Accounts Receivable 27,970 Supplies 1,760 Equipment 124,610 Accumulated Depreciation - Equipment 41,580 Accounts Payable 15,120 Salaries Payable 1,390 Unearned Rent 5,670 Common Stock 13,500 Retained Earnings 89,680 206,120 127,760 Prepare a corrected post-closing trial balance. Assume that all accounts have normal balances and that the amounts shown are correct.
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.
Post-Closing
An accountant prepared the following post-closing trial balance:
| Security Services Co. Post-Closing Trial Balance July 31, 2018 |
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| Debit Balances | Credit Balances | |||
| Cash | 12,600 | |||
| 27,970 | ||||
| Supplies | 1,760 | |||
| Equipment | 124,610 | |||
| 41,580 | ||||
| Accounts Payable | 15,120 | |||
| Salaries Payable | 1,390 | |||
| Unearned Rent | 5,670 | |||
| Common Stock | 13,500 | |||
| 89,680 | ||||
| 206,120 | 127,760 |
Prepare a corrected post-closing trial balance. Assume that all accounts have normal balances and that the amounts shown are correct. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.
| Security Services Co. |
| Post-Closing Trial Balance |
| July 31, 2018 |
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