Assume you recently were hired for a job in Evansville, Indiana, at the head office of Escalade,
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Assume you recently were hired for a job in Evansville, Indiana, at the head office of Escalade, Inc.-the company that makes GoalrillaTM and Goaliath® basketball systems, and is the exclu- sive supplier of Ping Pong® and Stiga® equipment for table tennis. Your first assignment is to review the company's lengthy adjusted trial balance to determine the accounts that can be combined ("aggregated") into single line-items that will be reported on the financial state- ments. By querying the accounting system, you were able to obtain the following alphabetical list of accounts and their adjusted balances (in thousands) for the year ended December 31.
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With the above account names and balances, prepare an adjusted trial balance using a spreadsheet. Also prepare an income statement, statement of retained earnings, and bal- ance sheet that import their numbers from the adjusted trial balance or from the other statements where appropriate. If similar accounts can be aggregated into a single line-item for each financial statement, use a formula to compute the aggregated amount. To be sure that you understand how to import numbers from other parts of a spreadsheet, you e-mail your friend Owen for advice. His reply is as follows.
From: Owentheaccountant@yahoo.com
To: Helpme@hotmail.com
Cc:
Subject: Excel-Help
Hey, pal. You're bouncing from job to job like one of those ping-pong balls that your company sells. OK, to import a number from another spreadsheet, you first click on the cell where you want the number to appear. For example, if you want to enter the Cash balance in the balance sheet, click on the cell in the balance sheet where the cash number is supposed to appear. Enter the equals sign (=) and then click on the tab that takes you to the worksheet containing the adjusted trial balance. In that worksheet, click on the cell that contains the amount you want to import into the balance sheet and then press Enter. This will create a link from the adjusted trial balance cell to the balance sheet cell. At the end of this message, I've pasted a screen shot showing the formula I would enter on the balance sheet to import the total of three related inventory accounts from the adjusted trial balance. Don't forget to save the file using a name that indicates who you are.
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Fundamentals Of Financial Accounting
ISBN: 9780073527109
3rd Edition
Authors: Fred Phillips, Robert Libby, Patricia A Libby