Corporate Financial Accounting
Corporate Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781337398169
Author: Carl Warren, Jeff Jones
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 7, Problem 7.24EX

(a)

To determine

Petty cash fund: Petty cash fund is a fund established to pay insignificant amounts like postage, office supplies, and lunches. In day-to-day life, it becomes difficult to use checks for daily expenses.

Journal entry: Journal entry is a set of economic events which can be measured in monetary terms. These are recorded chronologically and systematically.

Debit and credit rules:

  • Debit an increase in asset account, increase in expense account, decrease in liability account, and decrease in stockholders’ equity accounts.
  • Credit decrease in asset account, increase in revenue account, increase in liability account, and increase in stockholders’ equity accounts.

To journalize: The issue of check for petty cash fund establishment

(b)

To determine

To journalize: The replenishment of petty cash fund

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Petty Cash Fund Entries Journalize the entries to record the following: a. Check No. 12-375 is issued to establish a petty cash fund of $800. b. The amount of cash in the petty cash fund is now $288. Check No. 12-476 is issued to replenish the fund, based on the following summary of petty cash receipts: office supplies, $4297; miscellaneous selling expense, $123; miscellaneous administrative expense, $77. (Because the amount of the check to replenish the fund plus the balance in the fund do not equal $500, record the discrepancy in the cash short and over account.) a. Journalize the entry to establish the petty cash fund. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank. 88 b. Journalize the entry to replenish the petty cash fund. For a compound transaction, if an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.
Petty Cash Fund Entries Journalize the entries to record the following: Check No. 12-375 is issued to establish a petty cash fund of $1,000. The amount of cash in the petty cash fund is now $370. Check No. 12-476 is issued to replenish the fund, based on the following summary of petty cash receipts: office supplies, $365; miscellaneous selling expense, $151; miscellaneous administrative expense, $95. (Because the amount of the check to replenish the fund plus the balance in the fund do not equal $500, record the discrepancy in the cash short and over account.) a.  Journalize the entry to establish the petty cash fund. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank. b.  Journalize the entry to replenish the petty cash fund. For a compound transaction, if an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.
Petty Cash Fund Entries Journalize the entries to record the following: a. Check is issued to establish a petty cash fund of $800. b. The amount of cash in the petty cash fund is now $272. Check is issued to replenish the fund, based on the following summary of petty cash receipts: office supplies, $306; miscellaneous selling expense, $127; miscellaneous administrative expense, $79. If the amount of the check to replenish the fund plus the balance in the fund do not equal $800, record the discrepancy in the cash short and over account. a. Journalize the entry to establish the petty cash fund. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank. Petty Cash v Cash v Feedback V Check My Work a. Recall that the only time Petty Cash is used is when the fund is initially established or increased. b. Journalize the entry to replenish the petty cash fund. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank. Office Supplies Miscellaneous Selling Expense Miscellaneous…

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