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ACC201 Week 2: Assignment

Decent Essays

Accounting I (ACCT201 -1503B -08)
Instructor: Wendy Aoki
Phase 2- Discussion Board
Amanda Kranning
August 26, 2015

An adjusting journal entry or an adjusting entry, involves an income statement account (revenue or expense) along with a balance sheet account (asset or liability) and typically relates to the accounts for accrued expenses, accrued revenue, prepaid expenses and unearned revenue. (Investopedia.com, n.d.) When accounts are not updated to show the correct transactions or a mistake has been made, adjusting entry will provide insight in order to ensure all entries are appropriately recorded. This action will then reflect the accurate amounts of expenses and revenues. Once this is done, a business may close accounts for the ending period.
Adjusting entries have four types in which provide a method of breaking down transactions. When a business purchases supplies in order to stock, this would be considered a prepaid expense. After an adjusting entry is made for a prepaid expense, the ledger would reflect the correct portion of that expense, in this case supplies, in which was incurred during a specific time. (Editorial Board, 2012, p. 42) A depreciation expense is a sub category of a prepaid expense. This occurs when an asset is allocated over a certain amount of time. An …show more content…

With this, a payment is received before a product or service is rendered. An example is when a lawyer is put on retainer for future correspondence. A third type of an adjusting entry is an accrued expense. These incur during one monthly, quarterly, or annually accounting period but paid for in the next. (Editorial Board, 2012, p. 45) This occurs when a loan is made or services are established and yet no invoice has been received. Accrued revenue, the last type of adjusting entries can happen when several milestones are made with one company although the purchaser may not be billed but once for all milestones

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