Problem

Journalizing credit purchases and purchases returns and allowances, computing the net deli...

Journalizing credit purchases and purchases returns and allowances, computing the net delivered cost of goods, posting to the general ledger, posting to the accounts payable ledger, and preparing a schedule of accounts payable.

The Landscape Supply Center is a retail store that sells garden equipment, furniture, and supplies. Its credit purchases and purchases returns and allowances for December are shown below. The general ledger accounts used to record these transactions are also provided. The balance shown is for the beginning of December 2016.

INSTRUCTIONS

PART I

1. Open the general ledger accounts and enter the balance of Accounts Payable for December 1.
2. Record the transactions in a three-column purchases journal and in a general journal. Use 8 as the page number for the purchases journal and 20 as the page number for the general journal.
3. Post the entries from the general journal to the proper general ledger accounts.
4. Total, prove, and rule the purchases journal as of December 31.
5. Post the column totals from the purchases journal to the proper general ledger accounts.
6. Compute the net delivered cost of the firm’s purchases for the month of December.

GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTS

205 Accounts Payable, $13,490 Cr.
501 Purchases
502 Freight In
503 Purchases Returns and Allowances

INSTRUCTIONS

PART II

1. Set up an accounts payable subsidiary ledger for The Landscape Supply Center. Open an account for each of the following creditors and enter the balances as of December 1.
2. Post the individual entries from the purchases journal and the general journal prepared in Part I.
3. Prepare a schedule of accounts payable for December 31.
4. Check the total of the schedule of accounts payable against the balance of the Accounts Payable account in the general ledger. The two amounts should be equal.