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Accounts Receivable
#1

Which account is NOT considered a cash equivalent:  Money Market Accounts, Accounts Receivable, Supplies

Accounts Receivable

#2

Allowance for doubtful accounts is classified as

a Contra-Asset

#3

What does the Accounts Receivable Turn Over Rate indicate?

How many times the receivable were converted into cash during the year

#4

Your company had net sales of $8.5 million.  Your receivables were 1.2 a the beginning of the fisical period and 1.4 at the end of the fiscal period.  What is the average number of days to collect AR?

56 days

#5

What is the adjusting entry that is needed to bring the allowance for doubtful accounts to the proper amount in the general journal?

Uncollectable Accounts Expense and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Bank Rec
#1

What does the bank reconciliation explain?

The differences between the cash balance on the bank statement and the cash balance of the depositors records

#2

When preparing a bank reconciliation, the outstanding checks should be

deducted fromt he balance of the bank statement

#3

When doing the bank reconciliaiton, you realize a check for $200 was erroneously entered as $500 by the company.  What would you do to correct this on the bank statement?

Increase the cash balance per the books

#4

A company wrote a check for $76 and it cleared the BANK for $76.  However the company recorded the check in the cash account as $67.  How is the difference of $9 handled on the bank reconciliation?

Deduct from the book balance

#5

How is INTEREST credited to the bank account handled on the bank reconciliation?

added to the book balance

Petty Cash
#1

How is a petty cash fund created?

Debit to Petty Cash and Credit to Cash

#2

What account is used to replensih the petty cash fund?

Credit to Cash

#3

Approximately, how many times a month is petty cash replenished?

Every two weeks, or two times a month

#4

Petty cash was established with $125.  Cash in the petty cash fund is $26 at the end of the month.  Receipts for the month  total $95.  Whaat amount will be recorded as over/short?

$4

#5

What accounts are used to increase the balance in the Petty Cash Fund?

Debit to Petty Cash and a Credit to Cash

Marketable Securities
#1

Companies with large amounts of liquid resources often hold most of these resources in what type of investments?

Marketable Securities

#2

Why are Marketable Securites classified as a current asset on the balance sheet?

Because they are liquid

#3

How do you record the adjusting entry for Marketable Securities at the end of the year when the market value is greater than your account balance?

Debit Marketable Securities and Credit Unrealized Gain

#4

When selling shares of a marketable security, how is the brokerage commission factored into the transaction?

subtracted from the cash amount collected from the sale

#5

Nike issued a $.10 dividend per share of stock.  You owned 2,000 shares of Nike stock.  What account would be credited?

Dividend Revenue

Hodge Podge
#1

A line of credit would be classified as an Asset, Liability or as Owners Equity?

Asset

#2

Is Marketable Securites debited or credited if there is a GAIN when preparing the Mark to Market adjusting entry at the end of the year?

Marketable Securities will be DEBITED, Unrealized GAIN would be CREDITED

#3

How is the bank service charge recorded in the bank reconciliaiton process?

Deducted from the Book balance

#4

Define Outstanding Checks

Checks that have not been cleared by the bank.  The checks have been recorded in the cash ledger.

#5

On Feb 14, an accounts receivable for $2,000 is written off.  What is the journal entry?

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts is Debited and AR is Credited

Final Question