Accounting Practice Case
Accounting Practice Case
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© 2006 Perdisco. Coffee and Café Supplier Accounting Practice Set US GAAP Edition 1 published in 2006.
© 2008 Perdisco. Coffee and Café Supplier Accounting Practice Set US GAAP Edition 2 published in 2008.
© 2010 Perdisco. Coffee and Café Supplier Accounting Practice Set US GAAP Edition 3 published in 2010.
Julyana Cahyadi (B.Com., M.Bus.) teaches financial accounting and financial statement analysis to
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Contents
Study time guidelines ................................................................................................................................ 2
Overview .................................................................................................................................................... 3
Background information .......................................................................................................................................... 3
Accounting policies................................................................................................................................................... 3
Accounting procedures ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Instructions................................................................................................................................................ 6
Transactions ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
End of month posting.............................................................................................................................................. 6
Bank reconciliation ................................................................................................................................................... 6
Unadjusted trial balance ........................................................................................................................................... 6
Worksheet................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Adjusting entries........................................................................................................................................................ 7
Schedules of accounts............................................................................................................................................... 7
Financial statements.................................................................................................................................................. 7
Closing entries ........................................................................................................................................................... 7
Post-closing trial balance.......................................................................................................................................... 7
Reversing entries ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Further information ................................................................................................................................... 8
Chart of accounts ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
Schedule of accounts receivable ~ May................................................................................................................. 9
Schedule of accounts payable ~ May..................................................................................................................... 9
Post-closing trial balance ~ May........................................................................................................................... 10
Bank reconciliation statement ~ May .................................................................................................................. 11
Bank statement ~ June........................................................................................................................................... 12
Transactions ............................................................................................................................................ 13
General journal ........................................................................................................................................ 16
Special Journals ....................................................................................................................................... 21
Sales journal.............................................................................................................................................................. 21
Purchases journal..................................................................................................................................................... 21
Cash receipts journal............................................................................................................................................... 22
Cash payments journal ........................................................................................................................................... 23
Ledgers .................................................................................................................................................... 25
Accounts receivable subsidiary ledger.................................................................................................................. 26
Accounts payable subsidiary ledger ...................................................................................................................... 28
General ledger.......................................................................................................................................................... 30
Final statements ...................................................................................................................................... 45
Bank reconciliation statement ............................................................................................................................... 46
Worksheet................................................................................................................................................................. 48
Schedule of accounts receivable............................................................................................................................ 50
Schedule of accounts payable................................................................................................................................ 50
Income statement.................................................................................................................................................... 51
Statement of stockholders' equity......................................................................................................................... 52
Balance sheet............................................................................................................................................................ 53
Post-closing trial balance........................................................................................................................................ 54
Study time guidelines
Your accounting practice set is a large activity that will take approximately 18 hours or more of study. As such, you
will not complete the whole practice set in one sitting. The timeframes that we are suggesting on this page measure
study time spent directly working with this practice set.
Depending on the submission guidelines set by your instructor, your study time may be spread over many days or
weeks. The study times below are provided only to give you a general guide as to how to allocate your time when
completing the sections in your practice set. Breaking your study time into blocks will help maintain your
concentration while performing the tasks required.
Some students will take less time to complete their accounting practice set, other students will take longer. That is OK.
Subject to the deadlines set by your instructor, please take as much or as little time as you need.
Accounting Approximate
cycle step study time
Reading time Up to 0.5 hour
Transactions - week 1 Up to 2 hours
Transactions - week 2 Up to 1 hour
Transactions - week 3 Up to 1 hour
Transactions - week 4 Up to 1 hour
Transactions - week 5 Up to 1 hour
End of month posting Up to 1.5 hours
Bank reconciliation Up to 1.5 hours
Unadjusted trial balance Up to 1 hour
Worksheet Up to 2 hours
Adjusting entries Up to 1 hour
Schedules of accounts Up to 0.25 hour
Financial statements Up to 1.5 hours
Closing entries Up to 1.5 hours
Post-closing trial balance Up to 0.25 hour
Reversing entries Up to 1 hour
TOTAL all steps (approximate) Up to 18 hours
You are working for the temporary accounting employment agency known as Tempters.
Today you have been asked to work at Moondollars, a small coffee supplies store that
operates in the city and is owned by Adrian Bartos. Your task here is to complete the
accounting cycle for Moondollars for the month of June 20XX. To assist you in this task,
Adrian tells you to read the company's accounting policies and procedures. Note that you
will be required to follow these policies and procedures when completing the accounts
for Moondollars.
Accounting policies
a. Business operations: Moondollars is set up as a private non-listed corporation based in the city with
Adrian Bartos as the sole stockholder. The business derives its main source of revenue from retail sales of coffee
supplies.
To assist in managing the business, Moondollars rents a small office space. Note that the business is required to
pay for the rent for this premises in advance.
The electricity and water expenses incurred during the month relate to the running of the office. Additional
expenses include an insurance policy to protect the equipment in the office in the event of theft or fire.
All costs associated with the office are classified as general and administrative expenses.
Adrian is the only full-time employee and his role is to handle all administrative tasks. Adrian's salary is paid once
at the end of each month. All other employees are sales staff who are employed on a part-time basis. The sales
staff receive their wages every two weeks.
c. Purchases: Purchases are recorded when the business receives the goods. All items purchased are received on the
same day as recorded in the transaction list, except for purchase orders which are received at a later date. Note that
the business uses the gross method of recording purchases and receives trade discounts and early payment
discounts from some suppliers.
d. Purchase returns: To allow Adrian to separately track and analyze the value of goods returned to suppliers, all
purchase returns are recorded in the Purchase Returns and Allowances account rather than directly in the
Purchases account.
e. Revenue recognition: The business recognizes revenues when goods sold are delivered to customers. All items
sold are delivered on the same day as recorded in the transaction list except for sales orders, which are delivered at
a later date as agreed with the customer. Note that the business uses the gross method of recording sales and
sometimes grants trade discounts to customers. Past experience has shown that offering early payment discounts
did not increase the likelihood of accounts receivable being paid promptly. Therefore, discounts for early payment
of accounts are not normally offered to credit customers except in exceptional circumstances.
f. Sales returns: So that the business can easily track the level of sales returns in relation to overall sales, all sales
returns are recorded using a contra revenue account (Sales Returns and Allowances) rather than being recorded
directly in the Sales Revenue account.
h. Cash: The business accepts cash and checks and uses checks to pay for the majority of its expenses. On the day
checks are received, Adrian deposits them at the bank. It may take a number of days for the checks to be cleared
by the bank. The business holds its checking account with BitiBank.
i. Short-term investments: The business holds a six-month term deposit account with BitiBank. Interest is
calculated on a monthly basis and received at the end of the deposit term. Note that when the deposit matures,
Adrian usually rolls over the principal and interest received at the end of the term. The term deposit account was
rolled over on June 1, 20XX.
j. Inventories: The business uses the periodic inventory system and and records all purchases of inventory in the
Purchases account, rather than recording them directly in the Merchandise Inventory account. At the end of the
reporting period, the Purchases account and the opening balance of the Merchandise Inventory account are closed
to the Income Summary account and Merchandise Inventory is restated to its ending balance. Note that the
company does not use a Cost of Goods Sold account.
k. Prepayments: The business has a policy of recording prepayments, including office supplies, as assets. At the end
of the month, adjustments are made to the relevant accounts to recognize the expense incurred during the
accounting period.
l. Property, plant and equipment: Property, plant and equipment items are depreciated over their estimated useful
life using the straight line method to calculate the depreciation charge.
m. Long-term liabilities: The business obtained an interest only loan from MRMC Bank on June 1, 20XX. The first
interest payment is due at the end of August 20XX and the principal on the loan is due at the beginning of June
four years later.
Accounting procedures
Moondollars adopts a manual accounting system and uses the general journal and special journals for the recording of
individual transactions. Adrian Bartos has tailored the design of those journals to meet the specific needs of the
business so the format of those journals may be slightly different to those you have seen before. However, he advises
you that the general principles of how to use special journals are followed in his business.
The table below shows the journals used by the business and the types of transactions that can be recorded in each of
these journals:
General journal GJ All transactions that are not able to be recorded in the
special journals below.
To summarize the effects of transactions recorded in those journals, Adrian maintains the general ledger and the
following subsidiary ledgers:
The information below explains when transactions are required to be posted from the journals to the appropriate
ledger accounts:
All transactions that are entered in the general journal are posted on a daily basis. Note that if a transaction recorded in
the general journal involves both a control account and a subsidiary ledger account, that journal entry will need to be
posted to both ledgers.
When a transaction is recorded in a special journal, part of the journal entry may need to be posted daily and part of
that entry is to be posted monthly.
a. Daily:
▪ If a transaction affects a subsidiary ledger account, then the entry that involves a subsidiary ledger account
is to be posted to that subsidiary ledger on a daily basis. However, the same amount posted to the
subsidiary ledger account is not posted to the related control ledger account immediately. This procedure
allows the business to keep track of supplier and customer balances on a daily basis.
▪ In the cash receipts journal or the cash payments journal, if a transaction is recorded in the Other Accounts
column, then the amount recorded in the Other Accounts column is to be posted to the appropriate
general ledger account daily.
b. Monthly:
▪ At the end of the month, the totals of each column in the special journals are manually calculated. Those
totals, with the exception of the totals of the Other Accounts columns in the cash journals, are posted to
the appropriate general ledger accounts at the end of the month.
1. Transactions
a. Record all transactions in the relevant journals. Note that special journals must be used where applicable. Any
transaction that cannot be recorded in a special journal should be recorded in the general journal.
b. Post entries recorded in the journals to the appropriate ledger accounts according to the company's accounting
policies and procedures.
Remember to enter all answers to the nearest whole dollar. When calculating a discount, if a discount is not a whole
number, round the discount to the nearest whole dollar. Then, to calculate the Cash amount, subtract the discount
from the original amount.
3. Bank reconciliation
a. Prepare the bank reconciliation statement as at June 30.
b. Identify and record the relevant reconciling items in the general journal, and post them to the relevant accounts.
5. Worksheet
a. Use the following information to record adjustments in the Adjustments column of the worksheet:
▪ furniture: Depreciation on the furniture owned by the business for the month of June is $156.
▪ equipment: Depreciation on the equipment owned by the business for the month of June is $366.
▪ Electricity expense for the month of June is estimated to be $874.
▪ The water usage for the month of June is estimated to be $235.
▪ The amount of wages incurred during the month of June but not yet paid to sales staff is $1,320.
▪ Interest expense incurred during the month of June but not yet paid to MRMC Bank for the bank loan is
$275.
▪ Interest earned from short-term investments in BitiBank for the month of June is $100.
▪ The value of office supplies used during the month of June is $4,037.
▪ $3,000 worth of prepaid rent expired during the month of June.
▪ $3,000 worth of prepaid advertising was used up in June.
▪ $590 worth of prepaid insurance expired during the month of June.
b. Complete the remaining columns of the worksheet. After taking a physical count of inventory, the balance of
inventory on hand as at June 30 is $60,857. You will need to use this information to complete both the Income
Statement and the Balance Sheet columns of the worksheet. Note that Merchandise Inventory is recorded in the
Income Statement columns. Hint: This information will assist you in calculating cost of goods sold under the
periodic inventory system.
7. Schedules of accounts
a. Create a schedule of accounts receivable balances as at the end of June.
b. Create a schedule of accounts payable balances as at the end of June.
8. Financial statements
a. Prepare an income statement for the month of June.
b. Prepare a statement of stockholders' equity for the month of June.
c. Prepare a balance sheet as at the end of June.
9. Closing entries
a. Journalise closing entries in the general journal.
b. Post the closing entries from the general journal to the relevant ledger accounts.
After completing the tasks for Moondollars, you should double check your work and ensure that you have completed
all of the accounting records before submitting them for review.
Debit Credit
Account No. Name
($) ($)
Total 12,570
Please note: Moondollars does not generally give a discount for early payment except in exceptional circumstances.
All debtors are on net 30 credit terms.
Debit Credit
Account No. Name Terms
($) ($)
Total 16,438
Debit Credit
Account No. Name
($) ($)
100 Cash 29,477
102 Short-term Investments 20,000
110 ARC - Accounts Receivable Control 12,570
112 Interest Receivable
120 Merchandise Inventory 73,322
130 Office Supplies 7,083
140 Prepaid Rent 6,000
141 Prepaid Advertising 9,000
142 Prepaid Insurance 2,950
150 Office Furniture 9,000
151 Accum Depn: Office Furniture 2,031
160 Office Equipment 43,000
161 Accum Depn: Office Equipment 13,532
210 APC - Accounts Payable Control 16,438
220 Wages Payable
221 Electricity Payable
222 Water Payable
225 Interest Payable
250 Bank Loan Payable
300 Common Stock 80,000
301 Retained Earnings 100,401
Total 212,402 212,402
Moondollars
Bank Reconciliation Statement
As at May 31, 20XX
Balance per bank: $32,182
Add:
deposit in transit from Quick Bolt Coffee $3,685
deposit in transit from Central Coffee 1,210 4,895
37,077
Deduct:
outstanding check No. 901 $6,900
outstanding check No. 902 700 7,600
Adjusted balance per bank $29,477
Seattle branch
Account No.
Adrian Bartos
69932616
102 Martin Road
Page No.
Seattle, WA 98101
1
Moondollars
Week 1
Date Transaction description
1 Purchased Coffee Cup Lids from Abejundio Coffee for $160, terms net 30.
1 Purchased Gourmet Cubed Sugar from Brazil Imports Group for $200, terms 2/10, n/30.
1 Obtained a loan of $55,000 from MRMC Bank at a simple interest rate of 6% per year. The first interest
payment is due at the end of August 20XX and the principal of the loan is to be repaid at the beginning
of June four years later.
2 Paid the full amount owing to East Tangiers Co-op., Check No. 903. Payment fell within discount period.
2 Paid the full amount owing to Buena Vista Coffee, Check No. 904. Payment fell within discount period.
3 Purchased Gourmet Cream with cash for $220, Check No. 905.
4 Made cash sales of $5,961 during the first 4 days of the month.
7 Sold 5 bags of Medium Roast Arabica Coffee Beans to SloZone for $287 each, Invoice No. 201.
Week 2
Date Transaction description
9 Central Coffee paid the full amount owing on their account. Since Central Coffee has been a loyal
customer from the day the business commenced, a 10% discount was given for this early repayment.
11 Made cash sales of $10,081 during the week.
11 SloZone returned $1,198 worth of product. Issued a Credit Memorandum for $1,198.
12 Sold Chocolate Sprinkles to Jandesh's Hot Spot for $484, Invoice No. 202.
13 Paid the full amount owing to Klam Wholesalers, Check No. 906.
Week 3
Date Transaction description
15 Paid sales staff wages of $5,103 for the two weeks up to and including yesterday, Check No. 907.
17 Sold 10 boxes of Plastic Condiment Containers to Revamp Coffee Carts for $206 each, Invoice No. 203.
18 Made cash sales of $9,658 during the week.
18 Returned $1,403 worth of faulty product to Abejundio Coffee. Received a Credit Memorandum for
$1,403.
19 Jandesh's Hot Spot paid $300 in partial payment of their account.
21 SloZone paid the full amount owing on their account.
21 Received a purchase order from Jandesh's Hot Spot. Created a corresponding sales order to deliver
Gourmet Cream to this customer for $470, Invoice No. 204.
Week 5
Date Transaction description
29 Paid sales staff wages of $5,582 for the two weeks up to and including yesterday, Check No. 910.
30 Received Organic Chocolate Cream Liqueur for $155, which was ordered on the 28th, agreed terms with
Buena Vista Coffee are 2/10, n/30.
30 Quick Bolt Coffee paid the full amount owing on their account.
30 Made cash sales of $6,629 during the last 5 days of the month.
30 Paid monthly salary of $5,200 to Adrian Bartos, Check No. 911.
Total
Post Reference
Purchases journal
Post
Date Account Terms Amount
Ref.
Total
Post Reference
Total
Account: Purchases
Account No. 500
Total
Total
Other expenses
NET INCOME/(LOSS)
COMMON STOCK
Opening balance May 31, 20XX
Issue of common stock
Closing balance June 30, 20XX
RETAINED EARNINGS
Opening balance May 31, 20XX
Net income/(loss)
Dividend paid
Closing balance June 30, 20XX
TOTAL LIABILITIES
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
TOTAL EQUITY
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Debit Credit
Account No. Name
($) ($)
Total