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Exercise 10-3 In performing accounting services to small businesses, you encount

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Question

Exercise 10-3

In performing accounting services to small businesses, you encounter the following situations pertaining to cash sales.

1.

2.


Prepare the entry to record the sales transactions and related taxes for each client. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

No.

Date

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

POOLE COMPANY

WATERMAN COMPANY

1.

Poole Company enters sales and sales taxes separately on its cash register. On April 10, the register totals are sales $38,500 and sales taxes $1,925.

2.

Waterman Company does not segregate sales and sales taxes. Its register total for April 15 is $24,380, which includes a 6% sales tax.

Explanation / Answer

No. Date Account titles and explanation Debit Credit POOLE COMPANY 1. Apr. 10 Cash $40,425 Sales Revenue $38,500 Sales Tax payable $1,925 WATERMAN COMPANY 2. Apr. 15 Cash $24,380 Sales Revenue $23,000 Sales Tax payable($24,380 * 6/106) $1,380