Journal Entries and Preparation of Financial Statements
This motive of the following report is to make a vivid analysis and evaluation of the financial performance of the company 18840507 for the month of May. It has been found that the company had various transactions for the month of May and journal entries have been passed along with the preparation of the income statements and the balance sheet. The company of 18840507 has been engaged in the operation of selling and buying of inventories. There has been preparation of the profit and loss account and a balance sheet for the month of May in the organization (Levinson 2014). There is Trial Balance has also been also prepared in the organization which are shown in the Appendix which is given below.
Financial analysis
During the year the record of the transactions that are made by necessary journal entries passing in the month of May. After the journal entries the transactions are then transferred to the various ledger accounts (Grant 2016). For confirming the mathematical accuracy and balance of the debit and the credit side of the transactions of the organization the trial balance has been prepared.
The trial balance which is the statement where the debit and the credit balances are matched in order to find out the mathematical accuracy of the bookkeeping process. The trial balance also helps in pointing out the errors of commission and omission that have been occurred in the book keeping process (Rothaermel 2015). While analyzing the trial balance it can be found out that amount of sales in the credit side is $9829. Following the sales there are direct expenses that includes the cost of goods sold and the expensed related to the Motor Vehicles that has taken place in the month of May. The amount of cost of goods sold is $ 5,932 and the motor vehicle expense is $ 531.The owners capital equity amounts to $ 200000.The trial balance total is $566660 in both the debit and the credit side representing a general accuracy.
Then comes the statement of profit and loss of the corporate entity that represents the amount of profit generated for the month of May by the business activities and operations. All the transactions have been considered while preparing the profit and loss account for the month of May in the business. The primary motive of the statement of profit and loss as prepared by the accountants of the entity to represent and identify the entities’ profitability the primary income source of the business is the revenue earned from the sale of goods(Titman, Keown and Martin 2017). That have been produced by the company in the chosen month. There has been another major sources of income that has been identified in the business for the month of May that is the interest that is earned from the investments (Vogel 2014). Thus can be categorized as the organization’s secondary income. From the report for the month of May the sales of the company 18840507 amounts to $ 9829 along with the interest of $706 that has been generated. In the following pie chart is proper representation of all the various expenses incurred for the month of May in the year.In the above chart represents the various operating expenses of the business that has taken place in the month of May. It can clearly be observed that the operating expenses major part as been amounted to $ 4545. In the organization the amount of rent which is considered as a fixed expenses part that the organization has to incur on a regular or a fixed basis irrespective rate of the production of the commodities by the company (DeFusco et al. 2015). There has been an amount of $ 2042 which is another major expenses that is the interest amount of the loan. As shown in the balance sheet the interest amount is related to the loan that the business has taken. Depreciation and the motor vehicle expenses has also been found out in profit and loss statement that amounts to $ 306 and $ 531 respectively. The depreciation is the expenses due to the regular wear and tear of the assets for the various activities of the business during the month (Dale and Fortin 2014). There is also loss of $ 2,822 due to the more amount of expenses in the company’s financial statements. This has taken due to increased operating expenses.
The Balance sheet of the company represents the financial position of the company for the month of May. The balance sheet consists of the all the assets and the liabilities recorded for the month of May.in the graph represented below the there is a description of the current assets:The above chart that consist if the elaboration of the current asset items of the balance sheet that consists of the items like the prepaid rent, office supplies, advertisement prepaid, interest and amounts receivables and inventories (Bardach and Patashnik, 2015). The current assets covers the major parts that amounts to $22727.27 consists of the prepaid advertisement and rent of the business fot the month of May. In addition to this in the balance sheet there exists the inventory as represented in the graph amounts tp 12468.10. The inventory refers to the closing stock for the month of May. Moreover there is the fixed assets that comprises of the office furniture and the motor vehicles which makes the total side of the asset amounting to $ 546,344.85. Also there is an amount of $200000 of the firm’s equity. The total equity the amount of capital excluding the loss.
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