Question

Exercise 9-2 Recording known current liabilities LO C2 Listed below are a few transactions and events of Piper Company. Piper Company records a year-end entry for $10,000 of previously unrecorded cash sales (costing $5,000) and its sales taxes at a rate of 4%. The company earned $50,000 of $125,000 previously received in advance and originally recorded as unearned services revenue. Prepare any necessary adjusting entries at December 31, 2017, for Piper Company's year-end financial statements for each of the above separate transactions and events. (Piper has the policy of recording cash received in advance in balance sheet accounts.)

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The Journal entry is shown below:-

1. Cash Dr, $10,400

             To Sales $10,000

              To Sales taxes payable $400

(Being the cash is recorded)

Here we debited the cash as  it increased the assets and we credited the sales and sales tax payable as  it increased the sales and the liabilities

2. Cost of goods sold Dr, $5,000

                 To Merchandise inventory $5,000

(Being cost of goods sold is recorded)

Here we debited the cost of goods sold as it increased the expenses and we credited the merchandise inventory as  it reduced the assets

3. Unearned services revenue Dr, $50,000

              To Earned services revenue $50,000

(Being unearned service revenue is recorded)

Here we debited the unearned service revenue as it decreased the liabilities  and we credited the earned service revenue as it increased the revenue