The accounting manager at Antwerps TranquilStay Hotel has prepared the following income statement that pertains to the
Question:
The accounting manager at Antwerp’s TranquilStay Hotel has prepared the following income statement that pertains to the most recent accounting year.
The accounting manager is uncertain how to handle year-end adjusting entries and has sought your advice. Following a review of the business, you determine the following:
1. A €2,500 advance payment received in connection with a conference to be held in late July has been included in the sales revenue figure.
2. Employees have not been paid €4,000 in wages and salaries earned in the last four days of June.
3. Depreciation of €10,000 on a new car purchased this year has not been recorded.
4. The hotel rents a small adjoining property which it uses for patrons’ car parking whenever the hotel’s underground car park is full. The last rental fee paid was €900. is payment was made on 1st May and covered a three-month period. The account manager recorded this as prepaid rent and no entry has been made to adjust this account at the year-end.
5. The hotel holds an investment that earns €1,000 interest per month. June’s interest, which will be received in July, has not been recorded in the accounts.
6. Annual property insurance of €24,000 is paid semi-annually in advance.
The last €12,000 payment, which was made on 1st April 20X1 was debited to prepaid insurance. No adjusting entry to the prepaid insurance account has been made.
Required:
a) Prepare the necessary adjusting entries for the TranquilStay Hotel.
b) Following completion of the adjusting entries, prepare TranquilStay’s revised income statement for the year-ending 30th June 20X1.
Step by Step Answer:
Accounting Essentials For Hospitality Managers
ISBN: 9780415841092
3rd Edition
Authors: Chris Guilding