Creating journal entry to establish the petty cash fund


Question: Hukes Gallery had the following petty cash operations in February of the current year:

Feb. 2 Wrote a $300 check, cashed it, & gave the proceeds and the petty cashbox 10 Bo Brown, Establish, reimburse, & rise petty cashier, petty cash five Purchased bond paper for the copier for $10.13 that is immediately used.

9

Paid $22.50 COD shipping charges on merchandise purchased for resale, terms FOB shipping point. Metro uses the perpetual system to account for merchandise inventory. 

12

Paid $9.95 postage to express mail a contract 10 a client. 

14

Reimbursed Alli Buck, the manager, $58 for business mileage on her car. 

20

Purchased stationery for $77.76 that is immediately used. 

23

Paid a courier $18 to deliver merchandise sold to a customer, terms FOB destination. 

25

Paid $15.10 COD shipping charges on merchandise purchased for resale, terms FOB shipping point. 

27

Paid $64 for postage expenses. 

28

The fund had $21.23 remaining in the petty cash box, sorted the petty cash receipts by accounts affected and exchanged them for a check to reimburse the fund for expenditures.

The fund amount is also increased to $400.

Required

[A] Create journal entry to establish the petty cash fund.

[B] Create a petty cash payments report for February with these categories: postage expense, merchandise inventory, delivery expense, mileage expense (for transportation-in), & office supplies expense.
Sort the payments into the appropriate categories and total the expenditures in every category.

[C] Create journal entries for part 2 to both (1) reimburse & (2) increase the fund amount.

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