Question

MacKenzie Company sold $640 of merchandise to a customer who used a Regional Bank credit card. Regional Bank deducts a 5.5% service charge for sales on its credit cards. MacKenzie electronically remits the credit card sales receipts to the credit card company and receives payment immediately. The journal entry to record this sale transaction would be:________

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The Journal entry is shown below:-

Cash Dr, $604.80 ($640 × 5.5%)

Card Expense $35.20

            To Sales $640

(Being sale is recorded)

Here we debited the cash and expenses as assets are increasing also it increased the expenses On the other hand it also increased the sales. Also assets and expenses contains normal debit balance and the sales revenue contains normal credit balance