Accounting on the delivery of merchandise
Exercise 8-6 Petty cash fund accounting L.O. P2
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NetPerks Co. establishes a $200 petty cash fund on January 1. On January 8, the fund shows $28 in cash along with receipts for the following expenditures: postage, $64; transportation-in, $19; delivery expenses, $36; and miscellaneous expenses, $53. NetPerks uses the perpetual system in accounting for merchandise inventory. |
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Exercise 8-6 Part 1
(1) | Prepare journal entry to establish the fund on January 1. (Omit the “$” sign in your response.) |
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Exercise 8-6 Part 2
(2) | Prepare journal entry to reimburse it on January 8. (Omit the “$” sign in your response.) |
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Exercise 8-6 Part 3
(3) | Prepare journal entries to both reimburse the fund and increase it to $500 on January 8, assuming no entry in part 2. (Omit the “$” sign in your response.) |
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Exercise 8-7 Bank reconciliation and adjusting entries L.O. P3
A table for a monthly bank reconciliation dated September 30 is given below. For each item 1 through 12, indicate whether the item should be added to or deducted from the book or bank balance, or whether it should not appear on the reconciliation. (Select the answers in the appropriate cells and Leave no cells blank be certain to select “NA” in fields which are not applicable.) |
Bank Balance | Book Balance | Shown/Not Shown | ||
1. | Bank service charge for September. | |||
2. | Checks written and mailed to payees on October 2. | |||
3. | Checks written by another depositor but charged against this company’s account. | |||
4. | Principal and interest on a note receivable to this company is collected by the bank but not yet recorded by the company. | |||
5. | Special bank charge for collection of note in part 4 on this company’s behalf. | |||
6. | Check written against the company’s account and cleared by the bank; erroneously not recorded by the company’s recordkeeper. | |||
7. | Interest earned on the September cash balance in the bank. | |||
8. | Night deposit made on September 30 after the bank closed. | |||
9. | Checks outstanding on August 31 that cleared the bank in September. | |||
10. | NSF check from customer is returned on September 25 but not yet recorded by this company. | |||
11. | Checks written by the company and mailed to payees on September 30. | |||
12. | Deposit made on September 5 and processed by the bank on September 6. |
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Problem 8-2A Establish, reimburse, and adjust petty cash L.O. P2
Shawnee Co. set up a petty cash fund for payments of small amounts. The following transactions involving the petty cash fund occurred in May (the last month of the company’s fiscal year). |
May | 1 | Prepared a company check for $250 to establish the petty cash fund. | |
15 | Prepared a company check to replenish the fund for the following expenditures made since May1. | ||
a. Paid $78 for janitorial services. | |||
b. Paid $63.68 for miscellaneous expenses. | |||
c. Paid postage expenses of $43.50. | |||
d. Paid $57.15 to The County Gazette (the local newspaper) for an advertisement. | |||
e. Counted $11.15 remaining in the petty cash box. | |||
16 | Prepared a company check for $200 to increase the fund to $450. | ||
31 | The petty cashier reports that $293.39 cash remains in the fund. A company check is drawn to replenish the fund for the following expenditures made since May 15. | ||
f. Paid postage expenses of $48.36. | |||
g. Reimbursed the office manager for business mileage, $38.50. | |||
h. Paid $39.75 to deliver merchandise to a customer, terms FOB destination. | |||
31 | The company decides that the May 16 increase in the fund was too large. It reduces the fund by $50, leaving a total of $400. |