Intermediate Accounting, 10 Ed
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781260310177
Author: Mark W. Nelson, Wayne B. Thomas J. David Spiceland
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.24E
To determine
General journal (GJ):
The journal where the debit and credit entries of the accounting transactions are recorded in a chronological order are referred to as general journal.
Special journals:
Special journals are the journals where the particular types of transactions which occur frequently in a month are recorded.
The special journals that are generally used by the businesses are as follows:
- Sales journal (SJ)
- Cash receipts journal (CR)
- Purchases journal (PJ)
- Cash payments or disbursements journal (CD)
To Indicate: The journal which should be used to record each of the following transactions.
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Business incurred travelling cost of OMR 50. Which of the following specialized journals will record this transaction?
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Purchase journal
b.
Cash receipt journal
c.
Sales journal
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The entries in a purchases journal are posted to which of the following subsidiary ledger?
A. Accounts Receivable
B. Sales
C. Purchases
D. Accounts payable
2. The accounts payable ledger has posting from which of the following sets of journal?
A. Purchases, cash payments and general
B. Purchases, cash receipts and general
C. Purchases and sales
D. Cash payments and sales
Identifying special journals
Use the following abbreviations to indicate the journal in which you would record transactions a through n.
J = General journal
S = Sales journal
CR = Cash receipts journal
P = Purchases journal
CP = Cash payments journal
Transactions:
_____ a. Cash purchase of merchandise inventory
_____ b. Collection of dividend revenue earned on an investment
_____ c. Prepayment of insurance
_____ d. Borrowing money on a long-term note payable
_____ e. Purchase of equipment on account
_____ f. Cost of goods sold along with a credit sale
_____ g. Cash sale of merchandise inventory
_____ h. Payment of rent
_____ i. Depreciation of computer equipment
_____ j. Purchase of merchandise inventory on account
_____ k. Collection of accounts receivable
_____ l. Expiration of prepaid insurance
_____ m. Sale on account
_____ n. Payment on account
Chapter 2 Solutions
Intermediate Accounting, 10 Ed
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