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Cash Method
- Used if income is recorded only when
cash is received and expense is
considered incurred only when paid in
cash.
Accrual Method
- Used if income is recorded when goods
are delivered or services are rendered
What is Adjusting Entries? whether paid in cash or not; and
Adjusting Entries are journal entries usually expenses are recorded at the time they
prepared at the end of the accounting are incurred even if not yet paid for.
period to update the records in order to - Accrual Method is used by most
present fair and more accurate financial businesses because it gives an accurate
record. result of most of its operations.
This is done for the trial balance that you
made is no longer updated.
In Adjusting Entries, a General Journal is The accounts that need Adjustments
prepared which is now entitled “Adjusting 1. Adjustment for the provision for bad debts
Entries.” 2. Adjustment for the expiration for prepaid
Accounting Period expenses
3. Adjustment for unrecorded expense or
Any period in the life of the business where accrued expense
financial reports are prepared. 4. Adjustment for unrecorded expense or
accrued income
Reasons of the Need for Adjusting Entries: 5. Adjustment for the depreciation of the fixed
assets
Adjustment of books must be undertaken because 6. Adjustment for precollected income
there are “Hidden Transactions.” 7. Setting up the ending inventory (for
Hidden Transaction are transactions which are not supplies, materials, merchandise)
yet recorded during the accounting period. The
following items need to be adjusted at the end of
the accounting period:
a. Asset accounts might include expired cost;
Example of Unadjusted Trial Balance to be used as Journalizing- Adjusting Entries:
an example for the whole lesson:
Journalizing
Note: Write the heading at the center of the
topmost of the worksheet: business name, the title
“WORKSHEET” and the date of the worksheet
(Accounting Period).
The Worksheet
The worksheet or work paper is a device used as
convenient and orderly way of organizing the
accounting data to facilitate the preparation of
adjusting entries, financial statements, and closing
entries.
It is called as the accountant’s scratch paper. It is
not part of formal accounting records, but it is an
aid used to accumulate and organize data, thus
facilitate the checking, handling and keeping of the
accounting records.
2.) Now, put the adjustment from the Adjusting If both amounts on one account title is on the same
Entries (General Journal). Extend the amount if the side (DR, DR or CR, CR), you will add it. If the two
account title is already included, if not, put at the amounts are on different side (DR, CR), you will
bottom. subtract.
Note: The sequence of the account titles in this Example: Both of the amount in the Salary Expense
worksheet isn’t base on the chart of accounts. (Ang from the Unadjusted Trial Balance and the
pagkakasunod-sunod ay base na sa items). Adjustment is on the DR side, you will add them.
Balance Sheet
- Also called as the Statement of Financial
Condition, is a formal statement that
presents the assets, liabilities and equity of
an enterprises as of a particular date.
- Balance Sheet Presentation: A balance
sheet may be prepared in any two forms:
(1) Account Form (2) Report Form.
The Net Income in the Worksheet and in To get the Net Income in the Income
the Income statement should be the same. Statement in the Worksheet, you need to
The total in the Balance Sheet in the subtract the total of the Debit to the total
Worksheet and on the Balance Sheet Credit.
Statement is not necessarily the same.
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