Title: Completing the Accounting Cycle
1Completing the Accounting Cycle
Chapter
4
2Benefits of a Work Sheet
Aids the preparation of financial statements.
Assists in planning and organizing an audit.
Not a required report.
Reduces possibility of errors.
Helps in preparing interim financial statements.
Shows the effects of proposed transactions.
Links accounts and their adjustments.
3FastForwardWork Sheet For Month Ended December
31, 2004
First, enter the unadjusted amounts to the
worksheet.
4FastForwardWork Sheet For Month Ended December
31, 2004
Next, enter the adjustments.
5FastForwardWork Sheet For Month Ended December
31, 2004
Prepare adjusted trial balance.
6Sort adjusted trial balance amounts to financial
statements.
FastForwardWork Sheet For Month Ended December
31, 2004
7Total statement columns, compute income or loss,
and balance columns.
FastForwardWork Sheet For Month Ended December
31, 2004
8Prepare the Financial Statements
?Prepare the Income Statement.
A work sheet does not substitute for financial
statements.
9?Prepare the Statement of Changes in Owners
Equity.
10?Prepare the Balance Sheet.
11Closing Process
- Resets revenue, expense and withdrawal account
balances to zero at the end of the period. - Helps summarize a periods revenues and expenses
in the Income Summary account.
12Temporary and Permanent Accounts
The closing process applies only to temporary
accounts.
13Recording Closing Entries
- Close Revenue accounts to Income Summary.
- Close Expense accounts to Income Summary.
- Close Income Summary account to Owners Capital.
- Close Withdrawals to Owners Capital.
14Closing Process
Balances before closing.
15Closing Process
- Close Revenue accounts to Income Summary.
16Closing Process
- Close Expense accounts to Income Summary.
The balance in Income Summary equals net income.
17Closing Process
- Close Income Summary to Owners Capital.
18Closing Process
- Close Withdrawals account to Owners Capital.
19Using the adjusted trial balance, lets prepare
the closing entries for FastForward.
20- Close Revenue accounts to Income Summary.
21 Close Revenue Accounts to Income Summary
Now, lets look at the ledger accounts after
posting this closing entry.
22 Close Revenue Accounts to Income Summary
23- Close Expense accounts to Income Summary.
24 Close Expense Accounts to Income Summary
Now, lets look at the ledger accounts after
posting this closing entry.
25 Close Expense Accounts to Income Summary
- Close Expense Accounts to Income Summary
Net Income
26- Close Income Summary to Owners Capital.
27 Close Income Summary to Owners Capital
Now, lets look at the ledger accounts after
posting this closing entry.
28 Close Income Summary to Owners Capital
- Close Income Summary to Owners Capital
29- Close Withdrawals to Owners Capital.
30 Close Withdrawals to Owners Capital
Now, lets look at the ledger accounts after
posting this closing entry.
31 Close Withdrawals to Owners Capital
32Post-Closing Trial Balance
Lets look at FastForwards post-closing trial
balance.
- List of permanent accounts and their balances
after posting closing entries. - Total debits and credits must be equal.
33Post-Closing Trial Balance
34Lets discuss the components of a classified
balance sheet.
35Classified Balance Sheet
Current items are those expected to come due
(both collected and owed) within the longer of
one year or the companys normal operating cycle.
36Current assets are expected to be sold,
collected, or used within one year or the
companys operating cycle.
37Long-term investments are expected to be held
for the longer of one year or the operating cycle.
38Plant assets are tangible long-lived assets used
to produce or sell products and services.
39Intangible assets are long-term resources used to
produce or sell products and services and that
lack physical form.
40Current liabilities are obligations due within
the longer of one year or the companys operating
cycle.
41Long-term liabilities are obligations not due
within the longer of one year or the companys
operating cycle.
42Equity is the owners claim on the assets.
43Current Ratio
Helps assess the companys ability to pay its
debts in the near future
44End of Chapter 4