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An insurance company hired an FP&A consultant to analyse it's Income Statement. The consultant was notified that company generally have higher amount of Legal fees

An insurance company hired an FP&A consultant to analyse it's Income Statement. The consultant was notified that company generally have higher amount of "Legal fees- eviction" in expense as course of their business they have to evict the insurers who do not pay the premium after taking a loan facility on their policies. On an average in one year company receives premium of $1.5M. In 2022, the "Legal fees-eviction" had $2.5M in expense.
Parallelly, GL "Legal Fees- General" had an expense of $500K. In 2022, the property owner of company's office space got angry for not receiving the insurance claim and evicted the company for illegal and not running a fair business in his property. The FP&A consultant decides to reclass expenses of $1.8M related to case filed by owner from "Legal fees-eviction" to "Legal fees-general". Assuming all these expenses were accrued until the Dec'22.
What would be the adjusting entry you'd recommend to be posted?
A) Legal fees-eviction Dr. $1.8M To Legal fees-general Cr. $1.8M
B) Legal fees-general Dr. $1.8M To Legal fees-eviction Cr. $1.8M
C)1) Legal fees-general Dr. S1.8M To Accrued expenses Cr. $1.8M and
2) Accrued expenses Dr. $1.8M To Legal fees-eviction Cr. $1.8M
D)1) Accrued expenses Dr. $1.8M To Legal fees-general Cr. $1.8M and
2) Legal fees-eviction Dr. $1.8M To Accrued expenses Cr. $1.8M
E) Accrued expenses Dr. $1.8M To Legal fees-eviction Cr. $1.8M
F) No entry shall be posted since the expenses were still accrued

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