Determine amounts for correct reconciled ending balance of


Assignment

Complete a-g using the adjusted trial balance. All info provided in document below.

Bug-Off Exterminators provides pest control services and sells extermination products manufactured by other companies. Following is the company's unadjusted trial balance as of December 31, 2013.

BUG-OFF EXTERMINATORS

December 31, 2013

 

Unadjusted Trial Balance

  Cash

17,500


  Accounts receivable

4,800


  Allowance for doubtful accounts


816

  Merchandise inventory

13,100


  Trucks

31,520


  Accum. depreciation-Trucks


0

  Equipment

47,830


  Accum. depreciation-Equipment


12,700

  Accounts payable


5,800

  Estimated warranty liability


1,230

  Unearned services revenue


0

  Interest payable


0

  Long-term notes payable


13,300

  D. Buggs, Capital


70,329

  D. Buggs, Withdrawals

11,200


  Extermination services revenue


58,230

  Interest revenue


858

  Sales (of merchandise)


71,126

  Cost of goods sold

46,500


  Depreciation expense-Trucks

0


  Depreciation expense-Equipment

0


  Wages expense

36,400


  Interest expense

0


  Rent expense

10,000


  Bad debts expense

0


  Miscellaneous expense

1,239


  Repairs expense

8,100


  Utilities expense

6,200


  Warranty expense

0


  Totals

234,389

234,389

The following information in a through h applies to the company at the end of the current year.

a. The bank reconciliation as of December 31, 2013, includes the following facts.

  Cash balance per bank

13,900

  Cash balance per books

17,500

  Outstanding checks

1,840

  Deposit in transit

2,370

  Interest earned (on bank account)

45

  Bank service charges (miscellaneous expense)

18

Reported on the bank statement is a canceled check that the company failed to record. (Information from the bank reconciliation allows you to determine the amount of this check, which is a payment on an account payable.)

b. An examination of customers' accounts shows that accounts totaling $678 should be written off as uncollectible. Using an aging of receivables, the company determines that the ending balance of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts should be $713.

c. A truck is purchased and placed in service on January 1, 2013. Its cost is being depreciated with the straight-line method using the following facts and estimates.

  Original cost

31,520

  Expected salvage value

6,800

  Useful life (years)

4

d. Two items of equipment (a sprayer and an injector) were purchased and put into service in early January 2011. They are being depreciated with the straight-line method using these facts and estimates.

 

Sprayer

Injector

  Original cost

29,880

17,950

  Expected salvage value

5,000

2,200

  Useful life (years)

8

5

e. On August 1, 2013, the company is paid $3,720 cash in advance to provide monthly service for an apartment complex for one year. The company began providing the services in August. When the cash was received, the full amount was credited to the Extermination Services Revenue account.

f. The company offers a warranty for the services it sells. The expected cost of providing warranty service is 1.5% of the extermination services revenue of $56,060 for 2013. No warranty expense has been recorded for 2013. All costs of servicing warranties in 2013 were properly debited to the Estimated Warranty Liability account.

g. The $13,300 long-term note is an 10%, 5-year, interest-bearing note with interest payable annually on December 31. The note was signed with First National Bank on December 31, 2013.

h. The ending inventory of merchandise is counted and determined to have a cost of $13,100. Bug-Off uses a perpetual inventory system.

Required:

1. Use the preceding information to determine amounts for the following items.

a. Correct (reconciled) ending balance of Cash, and the amount of the omitted check.

a. Correct (reconciled) ending balance of Cash, and the amount of the omitted check.

b. Adjustment needed to obtain the correct ending balance of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.

c. Depreciation expense for the truck used during year 2013.

d. Depreciation expense for the two items of equipment used during year 2013.

e. The adjusted 2013 ending balances of the Extermination Services Revenue and Unearned Services Revenue accounts. (Do not round your intermediate calculations.)

f. The adjusted 2013 ending balances of the accounts for Warranty Expense and Estimated Warranty Liability.

g. The adjusted 2013 ending balances of the accounts for Interest Expense and Interest Payable.

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