7. Assume that a town purchases $11,000 of supplies on account toward the end of the year. A year-end audit reveals that $3,000 of the inventories remain unused.
Required: Prepare the journal entry for the purchase of the inventories and the year-end adjusting entry, assuming that the purchases method is used.
Under Purchase method, the supplies purchased is debited to Supplies account. | ||||||
And at the year end, supplies consumed shall be reconized as expense | ||||||
Journal entry and adjusting entry at year-end is as under: | ||||||
S.no. | Accounts title and explanations | Debit $ | Credit $ | |||
a. | Supplies account | 11,000 | ||||
Cash account | 11,000 | |||||
(for purchase of supplies) | ||||||
b. | Supplies expense account | 8,000 | ||||
Supplies account | (11,000-3,000) | 8,000 | ||||
(for supplies consumed recognized) | ||||||
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