Exam 4: Completing the Accounting Cycle

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Closing revenue and expense accounts at the end of the accounting period serves to make the revenue and expense accounts ready for use in the next period.

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Temporary accounts include all of the following except:

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What is the purpose of a post-closing trial balance?

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Based on the following information from Schrute Company's balance sheet, calculate the current ratio. Current assets \ 87,000 Investments 50,000 Plant assets 220,000 Current liabilities 39,000 Long-term liabilities 90,000 A. Schrute, Capital 228,000

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Match the appropriate definition with correct term
Statements that show the effects of proposed transactions as if the transactions had already occurred.
Closing entries
The time span from when cash is used to acquire goods and services until cash is received from the sale of those goods and services.
Operating cycle of a business
Entries used to transfer end-of-period balances in revenue, expense, and withdrawals accounts to the permanent owner's capital account.
Permanent accounts
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Statements that show the effects of proposed transactions as if the transactions had already occurred.
Closing entries
The time span from when cash is used to acquire goods and services until cash is received from the sale of those goods and services.
Operating cycle of a business
Entries used to transfer end-of-period balances in revenue, expense, and withdrawals accounts to the permanent owner's capital account.
Permanent accounts
Accounts that accumulate data related to one accounting period only; they include income statement accounts, withdrawals, and the Income Summary account.
Work sheet
Recurring steps in preparing financial statement performed each accounting period, beginning with analyzing transactions and ending with a post-closing trial balance or reversing entries.
Temporary accounts
Accounts that report on activities related to one or more future accounting periods; they carry their ending balances into the next period.
Pro forma statements
A widely used working paper that is a useful tool for preparers in working with accounting information, usually not available to external decision makers.
Working papers
A list of permanent accounts and their balances from the ledger after all closing entries are journalized and posted.
Accounting cycle
Various analyses and internal documents prepared by accountants when organizing information for internal and external decision makers.
Income summary
A temporary account only used for the closing process that contains a credit for the sum of all revenues and a debit for the sum of all expenses.
Post-closing trial balance
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The balances in the unadjusted columns of a work sheet will agree with:

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For the year ended December 31, a company had revenues of $187,000 and expenses of $109,000. The owner withdrew $37,000 during the year. Which of the following entries could not be a closing entry?

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Assets, liabilities, and equity accounts are not closed; these accounts are called:

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An optional columnar working paper used to prepare a company's unadjusted trial balance, adjusting entries, adjusted trial balance, and financial statements is a(n):

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Income Summary is a temporary account only used for the closing process.

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Jen Rogers withdrew a total of $35,000 from her business during the current year. The entry needed to close the withdrawals account is:

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During the closing process, Owner's Capital is closed to the Owner's Withdrawals account.

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Which of the following accounts could not be classified as a current liability?

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Use the information in the adjusted trial balance presented below to calculate the current ratio for Taron Company: Account Title Dr. Cr. Cash \ 23,000 Accounts receivable 16,000 Prepaid insurance 6,600 Equipment 100,000 Accumulated Depreciation-Equipment \ 50,000 Land 95,000 Accounts payable 17,000 Interest payable 2,400 Unearned revenue 5,000 Long-term notes payable 30,000 Z. Taron, Capital 136,200 Totals \ 240,600 \ 240,600

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The Unadjusted Trial Balance columns of a company's work sheet shows the Store Supplies account with a balance of $750. The Adjustments columns shows a credit of $425 for supplies used during the period. The amount shown as Store Supplies in the Balance Sheet columns of the work sheet is:

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It is obvious that an error occurred in the preparation and/or posting of closing entries if:

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A work sheet contains all of the balances for each account and therefore may be used as a substitute for the set of financial statements.

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A company's post-closing trial balance has total debits of $40,560 and total credits of $40,650. Accordingly, the company should review for errors in the closing process.

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Which of the following accounts is a permanent (real)account?

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The special account used only in the closing process to temporarily hold the amounts of revenues and expenses before the net difference is added to (or subtracted from)the owner's capital account is the:

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