Use book: Financial+&+Managerial+Accounting+13th+Ed
- What distinguishes a merchandising business from a service business?
- Can a business earn a gross profit but incur a net loss? Explain.
- The credit period during which the buyer of mer-chandise is allowed to pay usually begins with what date?
- What is the meaning of (a) 1/15, n/60; (b) n/30; (c) n/eom?
- How are sales to customers using MasterCard and VISA recorded?
- What is the nature of (a) a credit memo issued by the seller of merchandise, (b) a debit memo issued by the buyer of merchandise?
- Who bears the freight when the terms of sale are (a) FOB shipping point, (b) FOB destination?
- Name three accounts that would normally appear in the chart of accounts of a merchandising business but would not appear in the chart of accounts of a service business.
- Audio Outfitter Inc., which uses a perpetual in-ventory system, experienced a normal inventory shrinkage of $13,675. What accounts would be deb-ited and credited to record the adjustment for the inventory shrinkage at the end of the accounting period?
- Assume that Audio Outfitter Inc. in Discussion Question 9 experienced an abnormal inventory shrinkage of $98,600. Audio Outfitter Inc. has decided to record the abnormal inventory shrink-age so that it would be separately disclosed on the income statement. What account would be debited for the abnormal inventory shrinkage?