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If a prepaid expense account were not adjusted for the amount used, on the balance sheet assets would be ___________________ and equity would be __________________.

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Earned but uncollected revenues are recorded during the adjusting process with a credit to a revenue and a debit to an expense.

A) True
B) False

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Pfister Co. leases an office to a tenant at the rate of $5,000 per month. The tenant contacted Pfister and arranged to pay the rent for December on January 8 of the following year. Pfister agrees to this arrangement. a.) Prepare the journal entry that Pfister must make at year ended December 31 to record the accrued rent revenue. b.) Prepare the journal entry to record the receipt of the rent on January 8 of the following year.

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__________________ expenses are those costs that are incurred in a period but are both unpaid and unrecorded.

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Net income for a period will be overstated if accrued salaries are not recorded at the end of the accounting period.

A) True
B) False

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An annual reporting period consisting of any twelve consecutive months is known as:


A) Fiscal year.
B) Calendar year.
C) Interim financial period.
D) Natural business year.
E) Seasonal year.

F) All of the above
G) B) and D)

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Using the information presented below, prepare an income statement from the adjusted trial balance of Hanson Storage. Using the information presented below, prepare an income statement from the adjusted trial balance of Hanson Storage.

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Profit margin can also be called return on sales.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following statements related to U.S. GAAP and IFRS is incorrect?


A) Both U.S. GAAP and IFRS include guidance for adjusting entries.
B) Both U.S. GAAP and IFRS prepare the same four financial statements.
C) U.S. GAAP does not require items to be separated by current and noncurrent classifications on the balance sheet.
D) U.S. GAAP balance sheets report current items first.
E) IFRS balance sheets normally present noncurrent items first.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Accrual accounting and the adjusting process rely on two principles: the ___________________ principle and the ________________________ principle.

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Prepare adjusting entries for the year ended December 31, for each of these separate situations. Assume that prepaid expenses are initially recorded in asset accounts and that fees collected in advance are initially recorded as liabilities. a. The Prepaid Rent account has a debit balance of $12,000 before adjustment, representing a prepayment for four months rent made on December 1 of the current year. b. One-third of the work related to $18,000 of cash received in advance was performed during this period. c. Unpaid accrued salaries at December 31 amounts to $15,000 d. Work was completed for a client on December 31 in the amount of $21,000, but was not previously billed or recorded. e. Estimated depreciation on office equipment is $27,000.

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Interim statements report a company's business activities for a one-year period.

A) True
B) False

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A company owes its employees $5,000 for the year ended December 31. It will pay employees on January 6 for the previous two weeks' salaries. The year-end adjusting on entry on December 31 will include a debit to Salaries Expense and a credit to Cash.

A) True
B) False

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A company made no adjusting entry for accrued and unpaid employee salaries of $9,000 on December 31. The entry to record the adjusting entry should have been:


A) debit Salary Expense, $9,000; credit Cash, $9,000
B) debit Salary Expense, $9,000; credit Fees Earned, $9,000
C) debit Salary Expense, $9,000; credit Prepaid Salary, $9,000
D) debit Salary Expense, $9,000; credit Salaries Payable, $9,000
E) debit Salaries Payable, $9,000; credit Salary Expense

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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A company purchased new computers at a cost of $14,000 on September 30. The computers are estimated to have a useful life of 4 years and a salvage value of $2,000. The company uses the straight-line method of depreciation. How much depreciation expense will be recorded for the computers for the first year ended December 31?


A) $250
B) $750
C) $875
D) $1,000
E) $3,000

F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

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__________________________ refer to costs incurred in a period that are both unpaid and unrecorded. ______________________ refer to revenues earned in a period that are both unrecorded and not yet received in cash (or other assets).

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If a company failed to make the end-of-period adjustment to remove from the Unearned Management Fees account the amount of management fees that were earned, this omission would cause:


A) An overstatement of net income.
B) An overstatement of assets.
C) An overstatement of liabilities.
D) An overstatement of equity.
E) An understatement of liabilities.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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A company's fiscal year must correspond with the calendar year.

A) True
B) False

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The adjusting entry to record the earned but unpaid salaries of employees at the end of an accounting period is:


A) Debit Unpaid Salaries and credit Salaries Payable.
B) Debit Salaries Payable and credit Salaries Expense.
C) Debit Salaries Expense and credit Cash.
D) Debit Salaries Expense and credit Salaries Payable.
E) Debit Cash and credit Salaries Expense.

F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

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Recording expenses early overstates current-period income; recording expenses late understates current period income.

A) True
B) False

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