Prepare the entry to decrease the fund


Response to the following problem:

Hawk Company establishes a $400 petty cash fund on September 9. On September 30, the fund shows $166 in cash along with receipts for the following expenditures: transportation-in, $32; postage expenses, $113; and miscellaneous expenses, $87. The petty cashier could not account for a $2 shortage in the fund.

Hawk uses the perpetual system in accounting for merchandise inventory.

Prepare:

(1) the September 9 entry to establish the fund,

(2) the September 30 entry to reimburse the fund, and

(3) an October 1 entry to decrease the fund to $300.

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