Question

Exercise 21-17

Please explain how you come to the answer so I can learn how to do it please.

You have been engaged to review the financial statements of Walsh Corporation. While examining the work of the bookkeeper hired during the year that just ended, you noticed a number of irregularities for the past fiscal year:

1.		Year-end wages payable of $13,600 were not accrued, because the bookkeeper thought that “it was immaterial.”
2.		Accrued vacation pay for the year of $34,600 was not recorded, because the bookkeeper “never heard that you had to do it.”
3.		Insurance that covers a 12-month period and was purchased on November 1 was charged to insurance expense in the amount of $9,240 “because the amount of the cheque is about the same every year.”
4.		Reported sales revenue for the year was $2,320,500 and included all sales taxes charged for the year. The sales tax rate is 5%. Because the sales tax is forwarded to the provincial ministry of revenue, the bookkeeper thought that “sales tax is a selling expense” and therefore debited the Sales Tax Expense account. At the end of the fiscal year, the balance in the Sales Tax Expense account was $99,900.

Prepare the necessary correcting entries, assuming that Walsh Corporation uses a calendar-year basis and that the books for the fiscal year that just ended are not yet closed. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Answer 1

No	Particulars	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
1)	Salaries and wage expense	13,600
	Salaries & wages payable		13,600
2)	Salaries & wage expense	34,600
	Salaries & wages payable		34,600
3)	Prepaid insurance (9240/12*10)	7700
	Insurance expense		7,700
4)	Sales revenue (2320500/105*5)	110500
	Sales tax payable		110500
5)	Sales tax payable	99,900
	Sales tax expense		99,900