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A compound entry in a general journal is any entry that has more than one debit or credit value. A compound entry is used to close the expense accounts because you will need to credit all of the expense accounts, then debit either the Income Summary, or the Capital itself.
debit expense accountcredit accounts payabledebit accounts receivablecredit income
debit cash / bank / accounts payablecredit expense account
wages expense and wages payable
Dr. Various expense accounts Cr. Cash (in bank)
A compound entry in a general journal is any entry that has more than one debit or credit value. A compound entry is used to close the expense accounts because you will need to credit all of the expense accounts, then debit either the Income Summary, or the Capital itself.
debit expense accountcredit accounts payabledebit accounts receivablecredit income
debit cash / bank / accounts payablecredit expense account
Debit expense or accounts payableCredit cash / bank
wages expense and wages payable
Dr. Various expense accounts Cr. Cash (in bank)
Debit to bad debt expense, credit to allowance for doubtful accounts. The figure would be your yearly estimate.
If you've made a payment on the vendor account which was previously incurred the entry would be: Debit: Accounts Payable; Credit: Cash If you're trying to write-off an unpaid accounts payable the entry would be: Debit: Accounts Payable; Credit: Expense Settlement Account (Contra-Expense account on the P&L that will flow through to Retained Earnings.
If you can't collect a receivable, you have to write it off. Doing so means you credit the receivable on the balance sheet and debit the income statement with bad debt expense. This entry essentially reverses the initial entry which recognized the revenue and put the receivable on the balance sheet in the first place.
The purpose of the closing entry is to bring the temporary journal account balances to zero for the next accounting period, which aids in keeping the accounts reconciled.
The entry closing the Expense and Revenue Summary is a?
I think in this question something is missing : The Expense A/c or Service A/c Dr from which regards we have liability to payand Cr. the Account payable A/c.For example : We purchased goods from BM...Accounts Payable Cash/Bank/Goods etc