A Company Records Its Transactions and Events in Four Special

Essay

A company records its transactions and events in four special journals and a general journal.The amount columns of these journals are numbered as follows:

Show how each of the following transactions would be recorded in the above set of accounting journals by inserting the number(s)of the columns in which the debit(s)would appear in the column labeled "Debits" below and by inserting the number(s)of the columns in which the credits would appear in the column labeled "Credits" below.
$$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | } \hline \text { a. } & \begin{array} { l } \text { Sold merchandise on acount, } \\\$ 750 .\end{array} & \text { Debits}& \text { Credits } \\\hline \text { b. } & \text { Collected a customer's account, \$800 cash, less a 2\% discount. } & & \\\hline \text { c. } & \text { Received and paid the monthly electric bill, } \$ 250 \text { cash. } & \\\hline \text { d. } & \text { Purchased office supplies on credit, \$100. } & & \\\hline \text { e. } & \text { Sold merchandise for cash, } \$ 500 . & & \\\hline \text { f. } & \begin{array} { l } \text { Paid a creditor for merchandise within the Discount period, } \$ 1,000 \\\text { cash, credit terms of } 2 / 10 , \text { n/30. }\end{array} & & \\\hline \text { g. } & \begin{array} { l } \text { Customer returned merchandise, } \$ 150 ; \text { the cost of the goxds } \\\text { returned is } \$ 95 .\end{array} & & \\\hline \text { h. } & \text { Purchased merchandise on acount, \$2,000 } & & \\\hline\end{array}$$