As shown above in Journal Entry 4A, recognition of revenue is not tied directly to the receipt of cash. 1999-2023, Rice University. On January 26, the company sells 350 units. Starbucks Has You Covered., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. period of time in which you performed the service or gave the customer the product is the period in which revenue is recognized, vii. are licensed under a, Use Journal Entries to Record Transactions and Post to T-Accounts, Explain the Importance of Accounting and Distinguish between Financial and Managerial Accounting, Identify Users of Accounting Information and How They Apply Information, Describe Typical Accounting Activities and the Role Accountants Play in Identifying, Recording, and Reporting Financial Activities, Explain Why Accounting Is Important to Business Stakeholders, Describe the Varied Career Paths Open to Individuals with an Accounting Education, Describe the Income Statement, Statement of Owners Equity, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows, and How They Interrelate, Define, Explain, and Provide Examples of Current and Noncurrent Assets, Current and Noncurrent Liabilities, Equity, Revenues, and Expenses, Prepare an Income Statement, Statement of Owners Equity, and Balance Sheet, Describe Principles, Assumptions, and Concepts of Accounting and Their Relationship to Financial Statements, Define and Describe the Expanded Accounting Equation and Its Relationship to Analyzing Transactions, Define and Describe the Initial Steps in the Accounting Cycle, Analyze Business Transactions Using the Accounting Equation and Show the Impact of Business Transactions on Financial Statements, Explain the Concepts and Guidelines Affecting Adjusting Entries, Discuss the Adjustment Process and Illustrate Common Types of Adjusting Entries, Record and Post the Common Types of Adjusting Entries, Use the Ledger Balances to Prepare an Adjusted Trial Balance, Prepare Financial Statements Using the Adjusted Trial Balance, Describe and Prepare Closing Entries for a Business, Apply the Results from the Adjusted Trial Balance to Compute Current Ratio and Working Capital Balance, and Explain How These Measures Represent Liquidity, Appendix: Complete a Comprehensive Accounting Cycle for a Business, Compare and Contrast Merchandising versus Service Activities and Transactions, Compare and Contrast Perpetual versus Periodic Inventory Systems, Analyze and Record Transactions for Merchandise Purchases Using the Perpetual Inventory System, Analyze and Record Transactions for the Sale of Merchandise Using the Perpetual Inventory System, Discuss and Record Transactions Applying the Two Commonly Used Freight-In Methods, Describe and Prepare Multi-Step and Simple Income Statements for Merchandising Companies, Appendix: Analyze and Record Transactions for Merchandise Purchases and Sales Using the Periodic Inventory System, Define and Describe the Components of an Accounting Information System, Describe and Explain the Purpose of Special Journals and Their Importance to Stakeholders, Analyze and Journalize Transactions Using Special Journals, Describe Career Paths Open to Individuals with a Joint Education in Accounting and Information Systems, Analyze Fraud in the Accounting Workplace, Define and Explain Internal Controls and Their Purpose within an Organization, Describe Internal Controls within an Organization, Define the Purpose and Use of a Petty Cash Fund, and Prepare Petty Cash Journal Entries, Discuss Management Responsibilities for Maintaining Internal Controls within an Organization, Define the Purpose of a Bank Reconciliation, and Prepare a Bank Reconciliation and Its Associated Journal Entries, Describe Fraud in Financial Statements and Sarbanes-Oxley Act Requirements, Explain the Revenue Recognition Principle and How It Relates to Current and Future Sales and Purchase Transactions, Account for Uncollectible Accounts Using the Balance Sheet and Income Statement Approaches, Determine the Efficiency of Receivables Management Using Financial Ratios, Discuss the Role of Accounting for Receivables in Earnings Management, Apply Revenue Recognition Principles to Long-Term Projects, Explain How Notes Receivable and Accounts Receivable Differ, Appendix: Comprehensive Example of Bad Debt Estimation, Describe and Demonstrate the Basic Inventory Valuation Methods and Their Cost Flow Assumptions, Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold and Ending Inventory Using the Periodic Method, Calculate the Cost of Goods Sold and Ending Inventory Using the Perpetual Method, Explain and Demonstrate the Impact of Inventory Valuation Errors on the Income Statement and Balance Sheet, Examine the Efficiency of Inventory Management Using Financial Ratios, Distinguish between Tangible and Intangible Assets, Analyze and Classify Capitalized Costs versus Expenses, Explain and Apply Depreciation Methods to Allocate Capitalized Costs, Describe Accounting for Intangible Assets and Record Related Transactions, Describe Some Special Issues in Accounting for Long-Term Assets, Identify and Describe Current Liabilities, Analyze, Journalize, and Report Current Liabilities, Define and Apply Accounting Treatment for Contingent Liabilities, Prepare Journal Entries to Record Short-Term Notes Payable, Record Transactions Incurred in Preparing Payroll, Explain the Pricing of Long-Term Liabilities, Compute Amortization of Long-Term Liabilities Using the Effective-Interest Method, Prepare Journal Entries to Reflect the Life Cycle of Bonds, Appendix: Special Topics Related to Long-Term Liabilities, Explain the Process of Securing Equity Financing through the Issuance of Stock, Analyze and Record Transactions for the Issuance and Repurchase of Stock, Record Transactions and the Effects on Financial Statements for Cash Dividends, Property Dividends, Stock Dividends, and Stock Splits, Compare and Contrast Owners Equity versus Retained Earnings, Discuss the Applicability of Earnings per Share as a Method to Measure Performance, Describe the Advantages and Disadvantages of Organizing as a Partnership, Describe How a Partnership Is Created, Including the Associated Journal Entries, Compute and Allocate Partners Share of Income and Loss, Prepare Journal Entries to Record the Admission and Withdrawal of a Partner, Discuss and Record Entries for the Dissolution of a Partnership, Explain the Purpose of the Statement of Cash Flows, Differentiate between Operating, Investing, and Financing Activities, Prepare the Statement of Cash Flows Using the Indirect Method, Prepare the Completed Statement of Cash Flows Using the Indirect Method, Use Information from the Statement of Cash Flows to Prepare Ratios to Assess Liquidity and Solvency, Appendix: Prepare a Completed Statement of Cash Flows Using the Direct Method, Summary of T-Accounts for Printing Plus. Rotation system that uses the newest products first, Sells 320 of the oldest units, 30 of the middle, 0 of the newest, Sells 100 of the newest units, 50 of the middle, 0 of the last. Want to create or adapt books like this? According to a 2017 holiday shopping report from the National Retail Federation, gift cards are the most-requested presents for the eleventh year in a row, with 61% of people surveyed saying they are at the top of their wish lists.6 CEB TowerGroup projects that total gift card volume will reach $160 billion by 2018.7. Transaction 7: On January 17, 2019, receives $2,800 cash from a customer for services rendered. (a) Issue stock for $1,000 cash (b) Purchase inventory for $500 cash (c) Sell inventory from (b) for $2,000 on credit (d) Record $500 for cost of inventory sold in (c) (e) Receive $2,000 cash on receivable from (c) Common Stock (+SE) Accounts Receivable (+A). 3.3From the following list, identify which items are considered original sources: LO 9/1 Bob Baker invested $50,000 cash to start the business, Baker Co. 9/3 Paid $1,500 for September rent. That is normal and to be expected. An electric bill was received for $35. The company uses the gross method and a perpetual inventory system. After the financial effects are analyzed, the impact of each transaction is recorded within a companys accounting system through a journal entry. Define accrual accounting and list its two components. Expenses are recognized in the same time period as the revenue they help create. Paying a utility bill creates an expense for the company. Figure 4.3 Balances Taken From T-accounts in Ledger. Accounts Receivable is an asset, and assets decrease on the credit side. Expenses increase on the debit side; thus, Salaries Expense will increase on the debit side. Impact on the financial statements: Revenue is reported on the income statement. Notice that for this entry, the rules for recording journal entries have been followed. Chapter 10: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Property and Equipment? also known as the historical cost principle, states that everything the company owns or controls (assets) must be recorded at their value at the date of acquisition, iii. Prepare journal entries to record each of the following sales transactions of a merchandising company. NRF Consumer Survey Points to Busy Holiday Season, Backs Up Economic Forecast and Import Numbers. October 27, 2017. https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/nrf-consumer-survey-points-busy-holiday-season-backs-economic-forecast, CEB Tower Group. LO Assume a perpetual inventory system. A company will take information from its journal and post to this general ledger. Assume further that this company already has the account balances presented in Figure 4.3 Balances Taken From T-accounts in Ledger in its T-accounts before making this last group of journal entries. Lets now look at a few transactions from Printing Plus and record their journal entries. Chapter 16: In a Set of Financial Statements, What Information Is Conveyed about Shareholders Equity? What is the ending retained earnings balance? 1a. Matching principle. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Any time that you perform a service and have not been able to invoice your customer, you will need to record the amount of the revenue earned as accrued revenue . You notice there are already figures in Accounts Payable, and the new record is placed directly underneath the January 5 record. The process to prepare a journal entry or in other words make a journal entry from scratch is divided into 4 different steps. 2a. 3.5Indicate whether each account that follows has a normal debit or credit balance. You have less cash, so credit the cash account. Step 1: Recording accrued revenue. Lets look at how we use a journal. It is not taken from previous examples but is intended to stand alone. The next transaction figure of $4,000 is added directly below the $20,000 on the debit side. Depreciation Expense = Unit Production Rate x Units Produced. Common Stock The difference $34,000 $4,000 = $30,000. Any person familiar with accounting procedures could easily read the above entry: based on the debit and credit, both inventory and accounts payable have gone up so a purchase of merchandise for $2,000 on credit is indicated. This is posted to the Accounts Receivable T-account on the debit side. 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