Sweetwater Water Testing Service was established on June 16. Sweetwater uses field equipment and field supplies (chemicals and other supplies) to analyze water for unsafe contaminants in streams, lakes, and ponds. Transactions related to purchases and cash payments during the remainder of June are as follows:

June 16.		Issued Check No. 1 in payment of rent for the remainder of June, $2,900.
16.		Purchased field supplies on account from Hydro Supply Co., $4,920.
16.		Purchased field equipment on account from Pure Aqua Equipment Co., $19,500.
17.		Purchased office supplies on account from Best Office Supply Co., $465.
19.		Issued Check No. 2 in payment of field supplies, $3,080, and office supplies, $350.
		Post the journals to the accounts payable subsidiary ledger.
June 23.		Purchased office supplies on account from Best Office Supply Co., $620.
23.		Issued Check No. 3 to purchase land, $120,000.
24.		Issued Check No. 4 to Hydro Supply Co. in payment of June 16 invoice, $4,920.
26.		Issued Check No. 5 to Pure Aqua Equipment Co. in payment of June 16 invoice, $19,500.
		Post the journals to the accounts payable subsidiary ledger.
June. 30.		Acquired land in exchange for field equipment having a cost of $10,000.
30.		Purchased field supplies on account from Hydro Supply Co., $7,300.
30.		Issued Check No. 6 to Best Office Supply Co. in payment of June 17 invoice, $465.
30.		Purchased the following from Pure Aqua Equipment Co. on account: field supplies, $1,200, and field equipment, $4,400.
30.		Issued Check No. 7 in payment of salaries, $26,800.
		Post the journals to the accounts payable subsidiary ledger.

Instructions

• Journalize the transactions for June. Use a purchases journal and a cash payments journal, similar to those illustrated in this chapter, and a two-column general journal. Use debit columns for Field Supplies, Office Supplies, and Other Accounts in the purchases journal. Refer to the following partial chart of accounts:

  11	Cash	19	Land
  14	Field Supplies	21	Accounts Payable
  15	Office Supplies	61	Salary Expense
  17	Field Equipment	71	Rent Expense

  At the points indicated in the narrative of transactions, post to the following accounts in the accounts payable subsidiary ledger:

  Best Office Supply Co

  Hydro Supply Co

  Pure Aqua Equipment Co

  Total cash payments, $178,015

• Post the individual entries (Other Accounts columns of the purchases journal and the cash payments journal and both columns of the general journal) to the appropriate general ledger accounts.

• Total each of the columns of the purchases journal and the cash payments journal, and post the appropriate totals to the general ledger. (Because the problem does not include transactions related to cash receipts, the cash account in the ledger will have a credit balance.)