E 23-8 Prepare journal entries for a trust You serve as the trustee for the Lisa Wyatt
Question:
E 23-8 Prepare journal entries for a trust You serve as the trustee for the Lisa Wyatt Trust. The following transactions occur during June and July 2015:
June 1 Open the trust account, depositing the $1,000,000 transferred from the estate of Cheri James into a non-interest-bearing checking account to be used for trust investment and administration and for accumulation of interest and dividends received from trust investments.
June 2 Deposit $500,000 into a two-year certificate of deposit earning 6 percent annually, with interest paid monthly.
June 3 Invest the remaining $500,000 in a stock mutual fund.
July 2 Record deposit of one month’s interest from the certificate of deposit to the trustchecking account.
July 3 Pay bank’s trust administration monthly fee of $41.
REQuIRED: Prepare journal entries for the listed transactions. You may ignore taxes.
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Advanced Accounting
ISBN: 9781292214597
13th Global Edition
Authors: Joseph H. Anthony, Bruce Bettinghaus, Floyd A. Beams, Kenneth Smith