Explain how accrual accounting differs from cash-basis


Go to Course Home and review the Course Project tab. Continue to use the Course Project template from Doc Sharing. In this graded discussion, we will be examining the operation of the Accounting Information System (AIS) with the use of problems and exercises from your textbook. The goal is to cover all of the requirements to ensure an opportunity for your successful completion of the Course Project.

Let's start with Exercise 3-22A and practice developing journal entries to make adjustments. Select one of the six transactions and develop the adjusting journal entry. If you are using an example found in the textbook do mention the page number.

(Learning Objectives 1, 3: Explain how accrual accounting differs from cash-basis accounting; adjust the accounts) An accountant made the following adjustments at December 31, the end of the accounting period:

a. Prepaid insurance, beginning, $400. Payments for insurance during the period, $1,200. Prepaid insurance, ending, $700.
b. Interest revenue accrued, $1,600.
c. Unearned service revenue, beginning, $1,100. Unearned service revenue, ending, $500.
d. Depreciation, $4,800.
e. Employees' salaries owed for three days of a five-day work week; weekly payroll, $18,000.
f. Income before income tax, $21,000. Income tax rate is 25%.

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