Northwest Sales had the following transactions in Year 1:

The business was started when it acquired $62,000 cash from the issue of common stock.

Northwest purchased $179,500 of merchandise for cash in Year 1.

During the year, the company sold merchandise for $204,150. The merchandise cost $112,283. Sales were made under the following terms:

a. Cash sales $48,210 b. Credit card sales (The credit card company charges a $1.50 percent service fee.) $143,340 c. Sales on account $12,600

The company collected all the amount receivable from the credit card company.

The company collected $11,592 of accounts receivable.

The company paid $45,848 cash for selling and administrative expenses.

Determined that 3.50 percent of the ending accounts receivable balance would be uncollectible.

Required

Show the effects of each of the transactions on the elements of the financial statements, using a horizontal statements model. Use + for increase, for decrease, and leave blank for not affected. In the Statement of Cash Flows column, indicate whether the item is an operating activity (OA), investing activity (IA), or financing activity (FA). Leave blank to indicate that an element was not affected by the event. The first transaction is entered as an example. (Hint: Closing entries do not affect the statements model.)

Prepare general journal entries for each of the transactions and post them to T-accounts.