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Night Flyer Pack'n Mail completed the following transactions during 2016:
Nov. 1. Paid $2,000 store rent covering the four-month period ending February 28, 2017. Nov. 1. Paid$12,500 insurance covering the five-month period ending March 31, 2017. Dec. 1. Collected $4,500 cash in advance from customers. The service revenue will be earned$1,500 monthly over the three-month period ending February 28, 2017. Dec. 1. Collected $9,000 cash in advance from customers. The service revenue will be earned$1,800 monthly over the five-month period ending April 30, 2017.
Requirements
- Journalize the transactions assuming that N ight Flyer debits an asset account for prepaid expenses and credits a liability account for unearned revenues.
- Journalize the related adjusting entries at December 31, 2016.
- Post the journal and adjusting entries to the T-accounts, and show their balances at December 31, 2016. (Ignore the Cash account.)
- Repeat Requirements 1-3. This time, debit an expense account for prepaid expenses and credit a revenue account for unearned revenues.
- Compare the account balances in Requirements 3 and 4. They should be equal.
Solution
VerifiedFor this exercise, we are required to prepare the journal entries and the subsequent adjusting entries, assuming prepaid expenses are initially recorded as an asset and deferred revenues are initially recorded as liabilities.
The same entries are required through the alternative treatment of prepaid expenses and deferred income.
The journal entries and adjusting entries to be posted to the T-accounts and we are to compare the balances of the accounts based on the two methods used.
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