MASTER BUDGETS AND PLANNING参考.ppt

In this transaction, FastForward purchases $7,100 of office supplies on account. The supplies account, an asset, will increase and the liability account, accounts payable will increase. Let’s make the general journal entry to record this transaction. We increase the supplies account with a debit and increase the liability account, accounts payable, with a credit. It is time to post the transaction. The general ledger account for supplies increased by $7,100 so the amount is placed on the debit side of the account. The accounts payable account, a liability, increased by the same amount, so we place it on the credit side of the general ledger account. Let’s analyze another transaction. FastForward provided consulting services and collected $4,200 cash. The asset account, cash, increased by $4,200 and the equity account, consulting revenue, increased by the same amount. See if you can make the general journal entry to record this transaction before moving to the next slide. We increase the cash account with a debit and increase the revenue account, consulting revenue, with a credit. Let’s post the amounts. The general ledger account for cash increased by $4,200 so the amount is placed on the debit side of the account. The consulting revenue account increased by the same amount, so it is placed on the credit side of the general ledger account. We could continue on with more transactions, but your homework will help reinforce what we have done here. Let’s take a look at the trial balance of FastForward at the end of December. On the trial balance, we list all the accounts in our general ledger and their related balances. The total of all our debit account balances must equal all our credit account balances. If this is not the case, we may have made an error posting the journal entry into the ledger. We cannot prepare the financial statement until the books are in balance as determined by the trial balance. Preparing a trail balance involves three steps: List each acc