October 10. Distribute the merchandise taken from stock through the sales journal, with the necessary correcting entry in the general journal. (See Volume I, pages 423 et seq.) Since but one Furniture and Fixtures account is carried, the detail necessary for analysis must be shown in it just as with Merchandise Inventory.
October 11. The Model Truck Co. transaction must be split, the cash portion being recorded in the voucher register, the rest in the general journal. ([See page 43] for method of handling notes payable under the voucher system.)
October 13. Certificate of stock is issued to Noble.
October 20. These receipts from subscribers are regular items.
October 25. These receipts from subscribers are building fund items.
October 26. The student will perhaps detect at once that the discount of $100.35 on the Brainard bill is incorrect. It is to be entered as given, however; correction will be made later.
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Practice Data
October 30. Sold Jno. Bach & Sons at 2/10, n/30, tables and desks $1,465, bookcases and cabinets $456, office supplies $435. Sold Sundry Customers at n/30, desks and tables $1,800, bookcases and cabinets $620, office supplies $300. Cash sales for the month were desks and tables $3,500, bookcases and cabinets $2,832.60, office supplies $3,167.40. Office supplies drawn from stock for use by the office, $350. Pay-roll check on Building Fund carried $1,950.70 for excavating and foundation labor, Noble $200 salary, Builder $350 commission. Paid Hoboken City Hospital $50 bill for workmen injured during construction. Paid regular pay-roll $5,769 (salesmen’s salaries $2,650; salesmen’s commission $580; salesmen’s traveling expense $1,525.50; delivery men $250; receiving and shipping clerks $163.50; office salaries $600); N. Y. C. Ry., freight-in $631.72; N. Y. Paper Co. for sundry office expense $84.75; Ward & Gow Publicity Co. for advertising $280, and sundry selling expense $50.25; petty cash voucher $144.95, of which $50.75 was for telegraph, telephone, and postage, $5 to Bullinger Publicity Co. for entry in city directory, $62.50 for stationery and printing, $10 for credit information to R. G. Dunn & Co., $16.70 for sundry office expenses. Paid the Builders Testing Laboratories $50 for test of cement and concrete for use in factory construction. Paid J. P. Landown rent, October 15 to November 15, $250. Sundry Customers returned tables $150, bookcases $85, and sundry office supplies of $52.50 of their purchase of October 24 as not being what they had ordered; we returned bookcases $500 to the Brickley Desk Co. of our purchase of October 26, because of failure of patent doors to operate.
Summarize all the books of original entry and post completely. For method of summarizing the voucher register, [see page 36]. Extend into the Unpaid Vouchers column all unpaid vouchers as shown by the Manner of Payment column. Take a trial balance as of October 30, 1915, recording it in the third and fourth columns of pages 58-60 of the journals. Be sure to show the two balances for cash, the regular and the building fund.