With bank reconciliation, you and your stakeholders can make decisions based on your bank records and financial statements, understanding both are accurate. Once you’re done comparing the accounts, reconciling any problems, and adjusting your bank and cash balances, there should be an unreconciled difference of $0 between your general ledger and bank statement. Ideally, you […]

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F. Giant must pay the entire principal and, in the first case, the accrued interest. In both cases, the final month’s interest expense, $50, is recognized. As these partial balance sheets show, the total liability related to notes and interest is $5,150 in both cases. The entry is for $150 because the amortization entry is […]

The accounting equation is the fundamental formula in accounting—it shows that assets are equal to liabilities plus owner’s equity. It’s the reason why modern-day accounting uses double-entry bookkeeping as transactions usually affect both sides of the equation. The accounting equation is an accounting fundamental that bookkeepers need to master to be proficient. As you can […]

The physical transactions for petty cash, cash short and over need recording with the appropriate journal entries. Here, you create a new journal entry in your accounting journal and debit, or increase, each expense account by the amount of cash used by your vouchers. In the example, debit the office supplies expense account for $300, […]

Visit the unclaimed property website and click on the “Holders” tab to report the property for further instruction. There are forms that need to be completed and you will need to remit the funds to the state. The state will then hold those funds while they attempt to find the payee. If the company does […]