AC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Capital Account, Trial Balance, Income Statement

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Inventory Adjustments
On a work sheet, the beginning inventory balance in the trial balance columns combines
with the two inventory adjustments to produce the ending inventory balance in the
adjusted trial balance columns. This balance carries across to the work sheet's balance
sheet columns.
Income summary, which appears on the work sheet whenever adjusting entries are
used to update inventory, is always placed at the bottom of the work sheet's list of
accounts. The two adjustments to income summary receive special treatment on the
work sheet. Instead of combining the adjustments and placing the result in one of the
adjusted trial balance columns, both adjustments are transferred to the adjusted trial
balance columns and then to the income statement columns. Income summary's debit
entry on the work sheet is used to report the beginning inventory balance on the income
statement, and income summary's credit entry is used to report the ending inventory
balance on the income statement. Each of these amounts is needed to calculate cost of
goods sold.
Although merchandising and service companies use the same four closing entries,
merchandising companies usually have more temporary accounts to close. The
additional accounts include sales, sales returns and allowances, sales discounts,
purchases, purchases returns and allowances, purchases discounts, and freightin.
Consider Music World's four closing entries.
1. Close all income statement accounts with credit balances to the income
summary account. The entry shown below assumes the inventory account was
updated with adjusting entries and, therefore, does not include it.
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