Closing Entries - Branchbooks: (Branch Books) Home Office
Closing Entries - Branchbooks: (Branch Books) Home Office
Closing Entries - Branchbooks: (Branch Books) Home Office
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Exercise No. 6
At the end of 20XX, the following records were taken form the books of the home office and the branch.
(Branch Books)
Home Office
12/01 Cash remitted to home office 80,000 01/01 Balance 60,000
12/28 Cash remitted to home office 30,000 12/05 Shipments from Home Office 120,000
12/28 Merchandise returned to home
office 12,000 12/28 Expenses from Home Office 45,200
Balance 103,200
Balance 166,400
Except for the error by the branch in recording its share of allocated expenses, all difference are timing differences.
Required:
1. Compute the correct balance of reciprocal accounts.
2. Prepare the necessary entries to bring the reciprocal accounts into balance for a working paper used to p repare the home
office’s combined financialstatements.