Session:3 Analyzing and Recording Transactions
Problem Set A
Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial Accounting | Leadership Development – Micro-Learning Session
Rice University 2020 | Michael Laverty, Colorado State University Global Chris Littel, North Carolina State University| https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-financial-accounting
PA 1.
LO 3.1For each of the following situations write the principle, assumption, or concept that justifies or explains what occurred.
- A landscaper received a customer’s order and cash prepayment to install sod at a house that would not be ready for installation until March of next year. The owner should record the revenue from the customer order in March of next year, not in December of this year.
- A company divides its income statements into four quarters for the year.
- Land is purchased for $205,000 cash; the land is reported on the balance sheet of the purchaser at $205,000.
- Brandy’s Flower Shop is forecasting its balance sheet for the next five years.
- When preparing financials for a company, the owner makes sure that the expense transactions are kept separate from expenses of the other company that he owns.
- A company records the expenses incurred to generate the revenues reported.
PA 2.
LO 3.2Assuming the following account balances, what is the missing value?
PA 5.
LO 3.2LO 3.4Identify the financial statement on which each of the following account categories would appear: the balance sheet (BS), the income statement (IS), or the retained earnings statement (RE). Indicate the normal balance (Dr for debit; Cr for credit) for each account category.
Financial statement | Normal balance | |
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Assets | ||
Common stock | ||
Dividends | ||
Expenses | ||
Liabilities | ||
Revenue |
PA 6.
LO 3.4Indicate what impact (+ for increase; – for decrease) the following transactions would have on the accounting equation, Assets = Liabilities + Equity.
Impact 1 | Impact 2 | |
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Issued stock for cash | ||
Purchased supplies on account | ||
Paid employee salaries | ||
Paid note payment to bank | ||
Collected balance on accounts receivable |