ACCT 201 Principles of Financial Accounting - Spring 2003
Sections 001 and 002 - Dr. Fred Barbee - Homework Assignment #3 - Chapter 3
Interpreting Trial Balances and Preparing Financial Statements

NOTE: Although this problem is different from that found in the text, you may use the working papers designed for Problem 3-3B in solving this problem.

A six-column table for Daxu Consulting Company follows. The first two columns contain the unadjusted trial balance for the company as of December 31, 2002, and the last two columns contain the adjusted trial balance as of the same date.

Account
Unadjusted
Trial Balance
Adjustments
Adusted
Trial Balance
Cash
$56,000
 
 
 
$56,000
 
Accounts Receivable
40,000
 
 
 
47,500
 
Office Supplies
35,000
 
 
 
15,000
 
Prepaid Insurance
7,600
 
 
 
5,000
 
Office Equipment
120,000
 
 
 
120,000
 
Accumulated Depr.-Office Equipment
 
$25,000
 
 
 
$35,000
Accounts Payable
 
32,000
 
 
 
40,000
Interest Payable
 
-0-
 
 
 
2,350
Salaries Payable
 
-0-
 
 
 
15,000
Unearned Consulting Fees
 
26,000
 
 
 
20,000
Long-Term Notes Payable
 
60,000
 
 
 
60,000
Common Stock
 
30,000
 
 
 
30,000
Retained Earnings
 
46,000
 
 
 
46,000
Consulting Fees Earned
 
236,200
 
 
 
249,700
Depr. Expense - Office Equip.
-0-
 
 
 
10,000
 
Salaries Expense
112,000
 
 
 
127,000
 
Interest Expense
7,600
 
 
 
9,950
 
Insurance Expense
-0-
 
 
 
2,600
 
Rent Expense
40,000
 
 
 
40,000
 
Office Supplies Expense
-0-
 
 
 
20,000
 
Advertising Expense
37,000
 
 
 
45,000
 
Totals
$455,200
$455,200
 
 
$498,050
$498,050

Required:

Analysis Component

  1. Analyze the differences between the unadjusted and adjusted trial balances to determine the adjustments that must have been made. Show the results of your analysis by inserting these adjustment amounts in the table's two middle columns. Label each adjustment with a letter and provide a short description of it.

Preparation Component

  1. Use the information in the adjusted trial balance to prepare this company's (a) income statement and statement of retained earnings for the year ended December 31, 2002 (Note: retained earnings at December 31, 2001 were $56,000, and the current-year dividends were $10,000), and (b) the balance sheet as of December 31, 2002.

  2. Calculate the company's Profit Margin for the year ended December 31, 2002.