E 23-8 Prepare journal entries for a trust You serve as the trustee for the Lisa Wyatt

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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

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