Prepare the closing journal entry that WestJet would make on December 31, 2008.

(Alternative approach: Set up an accounting equation spreadsheet using WestJet’s financial statements and record the closing entry WestJet would make on December 31, 2008.)

WestJet Airlines Ltd. (WestJet) was founded in 1996 by a team of Calgary entrepreneurs, headed by Clive Beddoe, as a Western Canadian regional carrier with three aircraft flying to five cities. Today, WestJet is Canada’s leading high-value low-fare airline, offering scheduled service to 66 destinations in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, with its fleet of 81 Boeing Next-
Generation 737-series aircraft. WestJet is traded on the TSX under the symbols WJA and WJA.A.
WestJet’s consolidated balance sheets, statements of earnings and comprehensive income, and retained earnings along with some extracts from the notes to the financial statements, are provided in Exhibit 3-1.