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Tree top Company is a service based company that rents canoes for use on local lakes and rivers. At the beginning of the new year, Tree Top Company decided to carry and sell T-shirts with its logo printed on them. Tree Top Company uses the perpetual inventory system to account for the inventory. During January 2025, Tree Top Company completed these merchandising transactions, and posted the merchandising transactions to the ledger accounts.
Tree Top Company does not typically prepare adjusting and closing entries each month, but the company is surprised at how popular the shirts are and wishes to know the net income for January and would also like to understand how to prepare the closing entries for a merchandising company. During January 2025, Tree Top Company completed the following non-merchandising transactions:
1. Journalize and post the January transactions. Omit explanations. Use the ledger provided for posting.
2. Journalize and post the adjusting entries for the month of January. Omit explanations. Denote each adjustment as Adj. Compute each account balance, and denote the balance as Bal. In addition, Tree Top Company provides this data:
a. A physical count of the inventory at the end of the month revealed the cost was $ 1791.
b.The company estimated sales returns will be $ 96 with a cost of $ 48.
c.Office supplies used, $ 70.
d. The Unearned Revenue has now been earned.
e.Interest expense accrued on the notes payable, $ 20.
f.Rent of one month has been used.(On December 1, the company prepaid $ 2 comma 700 for three months' rent on the warehouse where the company stores the canoes. On December 31, the company recorded one month's worth of rent expense for the month of December in the amount of $ 900.)
g.Monthy depreciation on the building amounts to $ 1300.
h.Monthy depreciation on the canoes amounts to $ 130.
3.Prepare the month ended January 31,2025, single step income statement of Tree Top Company.
4.Journalize and post the closing entries. Omit explanations. Denote each closing amount as Clo. and each balance as Bal. After posting all closing entries, prove the equality of debits and credits in the ledger by preparing a post-closing trial balance.
5. Compute the gross profit percentage for January for Tree Top Company.Non-Merchandising Transactions
Jan. 2 Collected $3,000 on account.
Jan. 15 Paid the utilities and telephone bills from December. (On December
20, the company received bills for the telephone ($270) and utilities
($230). At that time the company recorded a Telephone Payable
liability and a Utilities Payable liability, respectively.)
Jan. 15 Paid the wages accrued in December. (Wages accrued in December
amounted to $1,300 and was recorded as a Wages Payable liability.)
Jan. 18 Rented canoes and received cash, $2,000.
Jan. 20 Received bills for utilities ($370) and telephone ($240) which will be
paid later.
Jan. 23 Paid various accounts payable, $1,500.
Jan. 30 Paid employee, $1,000.
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