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Do the following events represent business transactions?

Explain your answer in each case

  1. A computer is purchased on account.
  2. A customer returns merchandise and is given credit on account.
  3. A prospective employee is interviewed
  4. The owner of the business withdraws cash from the business for personal use.
  5. Merchandise is ordered for delivery next month.

Short Answer

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Option (a), (b), (d), and (e) are business transactions involving monetary value and double-entry effect on accounting.

Option (c) is not a business transaction.

Step by step solution

01

Meaning of Business Transaction

Business Transactions are transactions that involve a certain sum of money or monetary terms of financial value supported by a financial instrument or document with the effect of double entry in books of accounts.

02

(a) A Computer is purchased on account.

It is a business transaction since a fixed asset computer is purchased on account, creating a credit purchase.

Purchase A/C Dr

To Creditors A/C

(Being computer purchased on account)

03

(b) A customer returns merchandise and is given credit on account.

Merchandise refers to goods returned, which is 鈥淧urchase returns鈥 on goods purchased on credit earlier. So, it is a business transaction since it involves double-entry of accounting and a certain sum of monetary terms.

Creditors A/C Dr

To Purchase Returns A/C

(Being customer returns goods and is given credit)

04

(c) A prospective employee is interviewed.

This is not a business transaction because

  • It does not contain monetary value to the transaction
  • It is an agreement between employee and employer & not a transaction
  • It is just an interview process involving oral or written communication.
05

(d) The owner of the business withdraws cash from the business for personal use.

The cash used is for personal purposes only, but that cash is withdrawn from business for personal use, which means its 鈥淒rawings.鈥 So, it鈥檚 a business transaction, and it must be accounted for in books as,

Drawings A/C Dr

To Cash A/C

(Being cash withdrawn from business for personal use)

06

(e) Merchandise is ordered for delivery next month.

Merchandise refers to any products for sale or buy. Any business would order goods for resale or utilize raw material to produce the final product for sale. In any of the case, the goods ordered are considered as 鈥淚nventory鈥 and is debited. Cash or Creditors account is credited depending on purchase terms.

It is a business transaction since it involves the monetary value of goods purchased.

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Most popular questions from this chapter

Selected accounts of Urdu Company are shown below.

Supplies

Beg. Bal

800

10 鈦 31

470

Salaries and Wages Expense

10 鈦 15

800

10 鈦 31

600

Unearned Service Revenue

10 鈦 31

400

10 鈦 20

650

Service Revenue

10 鈦 17

2,400

10 鈦 31

1,650

10 鈦 31

400

Accounts Receivable

10 鈦 17

2,400

10 鈦 31

1,650

Salaries and Wages Payable

10 鈦 31

600

Supplies Expense

10 鈦 31

470

Instructions

From an analysis of the T-accounts, reconstruct

(a) the October transaction entries, and

(b) the adjusting journal entries that were made on October 31, 2017. Prepare explanations for each journal entry

Listed below are the transactions of Yasunari Kawabata, D.D.S., for the month of September.

Sep. 1

Kawabata begins practice as a dentist and invests \(20,000 cash

2

Purchases dental equipment on account from Green Jacket Co. for \)17,280

4

Pays rent for office space, \(680 for the month.

4

Employs a receptionist, Michael Bradley

5

Purchases dental supplies for cash, \)942

8

Receives cash of \(1,690 from patients for services performed

10

Pays miscellaneous office expenses, \)430.

14

Bills patients \(5,820 for services performed.

18

Pays Green Jacket Co. on account, \)3,600.

19

Withdraws \(3,000 cash from the business for personal use.

20

Receives \)980 from patients on account

25

Bills patients \(2,110 for services performed

30

Pays the following expenses in cash: salaries and wages \)1,800; miscellaneous office expenses \(85.

30

Dental supplies used during September, \)330.

Instructions

  1. Enter the transactions shown above in appropriate general ledger accounts (use T-accounts). Use the following ledger accounts: Cash, Accounts Receivable, Supplies, Equipment, Accumulated Depreciation鈥擡quipment, Accounts Payable, Owner鈥檚 Capital, Service Revenue, Rent Expense, Office Expense, Salaries and Wages Expense, Supplies Expense, Depreciation Expense, and Income Summary. Allow 10 lines for the Cash and Income Summary accounts, and 5 lines for each of the other accounts needed. Record depreciation using a 5-year life on the equipment, the straight-line method, and no salvage value. Do not use a drawing account.
  2. Prepare a trial balance
  3. Prepare an income statement, a statement of owner鈥檚 equity, and an unclassified balance sheet.
  4. Close the ledger
  5. Prepare a post-closing trial balance.

(L07) (Cash and Accrual Basis) Wayne Rogers Corp. maintains its financial records on the cash basis of accounting. Interested in securing a long-term loan from its regular bank, Wayne Rogers Corp. requests you as its independent to convert its cash-basis income statement data to the accrual basis. You are provided with the following summarized data covering 2016, 2017, and 2018

2016

2017

2018

Cash receipts from sale

On 2016 sales

\(295,000

\)160,000

\(30,000

On 2017 sales

0

\)355,000

\(90,000

On 2018 sales

0

0

\)408,000

Cash payments for expenses:

On 2016 expenses

\(185,000

\)67,000

\(25,000

On 2017 expenses

\)40,000a

\(160,000

\)55,000

On 2018 expenses

0

\(45,000b

\)218,000

a Prepayments of 2017 expenses.

b Prepayments of 2018 expenses.

Instructions

(a) Using the data above, prepare abbreviated income statements for the years 2016 and 2017 on the cash basis.

(b) Using the data above, prepare abbreviated income statements for the years 2016 and 2017 on the accrual basis.

E3-15 (L06) (Missing Amounts) Presented below is financial information for two different companies.

Alatorre Company Eduardo Company
Sales revenue \(90,000 (d)
Sales returns and allowances (a) \)5,000
Net sales 81,000 95,000
Cost of goods sold 56,000 (e)
Gross profit (b) 38,000
Operating expenses 15,000 23,000
Net income (c) 15,000

Instructions

Compute the missing amounts.

The following are the trial balance and the other information related to Yorkis Perez, a consulting engineer.

YORKIS PEREZ, CONSULTING ENGINEER .
TRIAL BALANCE
DECEMBER 31, 2017

Debit

Credit

Cash

\( 29,500

Accounts Receivable

49,600

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

\) 750

Supplies

1,960

Prepaid Insurance

1,100

Equipment

25,000

Accumulated Depreciation鈥擡quipment

6,250

Notes Payable

7,200

Owner鈥檚 Capital

35,010

Service Revenue

100,000

Rent Expense

9,750

Salaries and Wages Expense

30,500

Utilities Expenses

1,080

Office Expense

720

\(149,210

\)149,210

  1. Fees received in advance from clients \(6,000, which were recorded as revenue.
  2. Services performed for clients that were not recorded by December 31, \)4,900.
  3. Bad debt expense for the year is \(1,430.
  4. Insurance expired during the year \)480.
  5. Equipment is being depreciated at 10% per year.
  6. Yorkis Perez gave the bank a 90-day, 10% note for \(7,200 on December 1, 2017.
  7. Rent of the building is \)750 per month. The rent for 2017 has been paid, as has that for January 2018, and recorded as Rent Expense.
  8. Office salaries and wages earned but unpaid December 31, 2017, \(2,510.

Instructions

  1. From the trial balance and other information given, prepare annual adjusting entries as of December 31, 2017. (Omit explanations.)
  2. Prepare an income statement for 2017, a statement of owner鈥檚 equity, and a classified balance sheet. Yorkis Perez withdrew \)17,000 cash for personal use during the year.
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