debit rent expensecredit rent payable
When renting a property, the first month's rent is paid upfront before moving in. The security deposit is also paid upfront and is held by the landlord to cover any damages or unpaid rent. The last month's rent is paid at the beginning of the lease and is used as the final month's rent when moving out.
No entry for giving car on rent rather entry is recorded when rent is received from customer.
Prepaid Rent ( debit ) Cash ( credit )
I will give two examples but first I will give the original transaction then the "adjusting entry" that would be used.Prepaid Rent, many businesses that "rent" their buildings prepay for months at a time. Say you pay $5,000 a month for rent and you pay Six Months in Advance. It first goes on the books as follows.Prepaid Rent (Debit) $30,000Cash (credit) $30,000After the first month when the company reconciles their books, they need to show that one month of this rent has been "used up", this is an adjusting entry and is as followsRent Expense (debit) $5,000 (we only used one month)Prepaid Rent (credit) $5,000This "adjustment" is made monthly.The second one I will use isYour company purchased a computer on account. When you purchased the computer on account it became an account payable. You decide to make a payment toward the balance you owe, this will go in as an adjusting entry. The accounts would beAccount Payable (debit)Cash (credit)An adjusting entry is just what it's called, an entry to "adjust" an previous entry to it's current or new state. If you never adjusted entries, such as accounts payable, prepaid expense, etc, then your books would be inaccurate.
Rent expense is considered an overhead cost, not a cost of sales since it does not directly relate to the merchandise you are selling. Any prepaid rent (such as at the beginning of the month) should receive a journal entry debit to an account called prepaid rent, and at the end of the month should be credited to rent expense. Hope this helps.
Yes.
When you are doing an adjusting entry, you are just doing no more than that, Adjusting an entry. For example. If you have rent paid for a year each month you want to "adjust" the entries to show that the months rent was used up or is no longer available. Cash is not involved in the Adjusting entry because the cash was already paid out at the beginning of the year, so if you used the cash account you would be paying out cash for a payment that has already been made. Say you paid $120,000 on January 1st for the entire years rent. Your first entry would be recorded as such Jan. 1 Prepaid Rent (DB) $120,000 Cash (CR) $120,000 On Feb 1st you want to adjust the entry to show that one month's rent has expired (or been used up) the entry would be as follows. Feb. 1 Rent Expense (DB) $10,000 Prepaid Rent (CR) $10,000 No cash is involved in the entry because cash was paid out at the beginning of January.
Rent Dr Rent Accrued Cr (for the Dec month)
There is no journal entry when equipment rented out to somebody as there will be entry when actual rent received.
6875 paid for five months so one month rent = 6875/5 = 1375 General entry is as follows November 1, 2008 [Debit] Prepaid Rent 6875 [Credit] Cash 6875 December 31, 2008 [Debit] Rent Expense 1375 [Credit]Prepaid Rent 1375
The cost of month-to-month rent for this property is 1500.