Chapter 9 Terms Flashcards
current or short-term liabilities
a form of debt that is expected to be paid within the longer of one year of the balance sheet date or one operating cycle
e.g. accounts payable, wages or salaries payable, unearned revenues, short-term notes payable, current portion of long-term debt
long-term liabilities
forms of debt expected to be paid beyond one year of the balance sheet date or the next operating cycle, whichever is longer
e.g. mortgages, long-term bank loans, bonds payable
known current liabilities
liabilities where the payee, amount, and timing of payment are known
e.g. accounts payable, unearned revenues, payroll liabilities, sales taxes
estimated current liabilities
the liability amount is not known and must be estimated
What are the journal entries to record a business’ payroll liabilities for its two employees?
Remember to also record the employer’s portions of EI and CPP as a second journal entry.
debit sales salaries expense
debit office salaries expense
credit EI payable
Credit employee income taxes payable
credit employee health insurance payable
credit CPP payable
credit salaries payable
to record payroll
ALSO DO THE FOLLOWING:
Debit EI expense
Debit CPP expense
Credit EI payable
Credit CPP payable
to record the employer’s portions of EI and CPP
2023 EI employer contribution amount
1.63 times employee’s portion in 2023
The textbook is using 1.4 because that is what it was at the time
2023 CPP employer contribution amount
Equal to employee contribution amount
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency.html will give more information though since there is more to pay that is listed there
two types of sales tax in Canada
Goods and Services Tax (GST) at 5% the selling price of taxable supplies (so not zero-rated supplies or exempt supplies)
Provincial Sales Tax (PST) at different rates depending on the province paid by final consumers of products as a percentage of the selling price
Quebec Sales Tax (QST) is what is paid in Quebec instead of PST.
Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) is a combination of GST and PST and is used in some provinces instead of using the two types of sales tax
taxable supplies
the goods or services on which GST applies
zero-rated supplies are not taxable
exempt supplies are not taxable
zero-rated supplies
prescription drugs, groceries, medical supplies
exempt supplies
services such as education, health care, financial
registrant
sellers of taxable supplies registered with Canada Revenue Agency that collect GST on behalf of the Receiver General for Canada
The GST is paid on the purchase of taxable supplies recording an input tax credit
Receiver General for Canada
federal government body
all taxes including federal income tax are remitted to the Receiver General for Canada
When is PST paid?
When the FINAL consumer purchases a product, PST is paid as a percentage of the selling price.
However, there is delay from the consumer purchasing the product to the taxes being sent in to the receiver general, so PST received from the consumer will be recorded as PST payable by the merchandizing company and will stay as a payable until PST is remitted.
A merchandizing company will credit PST payable when they sell the product to the customer. PST is frequently 5% of the selling price to the customer, so you will see that it would be exactly 5% of the “sales” portion of the journal entry.
The debit of cash on the entry will be higher than sales since the merchandizer will be collecting PST on behalf of the receiver general.
The entry for GST can also be made within the journal entry.
E.g.:
debit cash (full amount, including PST and GST)
credit sales (the selling price not including tax)
credit PST payable (% of sales listed just above, look up amount the province, 5% in Saskatchewan)
credit GST payable (% of sales, 5% in Saskatchewan)
When is GST paid?
Anytime the product is sold, even if not to the final consumer, GST must be paid. The journal entries for this are therefore more complicated since there is GST being collected by both the supplier and by the merchandizer, but in the end all the GST ends up with the receiver general.
input tax credit
Input tax credit is what is recorded when registrants purchase taxable supplies to remember to deduct it from the GST that needs to be remitted later. “Registrants also pay GST on the purchase of taxable supplies recording an input tax credit for the GST paid”
Merchandisers are paying GST to the supplier, and the supplier remits the GST for that purchase. Therefore, merchandise inventory is debited as usual, but there is another account called GST receivable which is debited so that the accounts payable to the supplier can reflect a total of the sale price plus the GST.
Debit merchandise inventory
Debit GST receivable (also known as input tax credit at 5% of the merchandize inventory)
Credit accounts payable (total of the two debits above)
input tax credit also known as GST receivable
GST receivable is just the GST that you, the merchandiser, have given to the supplier. The name implies that since you have given that away, that you no longer are going to need to pay that portion of the GST to the receiver general, which makes sense since the cash you pay later = PST payable + GST payable - GST receivable
Later entries will include GST payable which will be the consumer’s GST that they have given you. This will create a situation where you have too much money since the GST the customer gave you belongs to the receiver general. That is why it is called GST payable, since you must pay it to the receiver general.
The GST the final consumer pays you is not equal to the GST you as a merchandiser paid the supplier, since the merchandiser sells at a higher price. Typically, the GST payable will be a higher amount than the input tax credit.
GST amount to be remitted (given away) to the receiver general = GST payable (that’s the GST the consumer paid you, the merchandiser) - total input tax credit (that’s the GST that you, the merchandiser, paid the supplier on original purchase)
(sometimes this equation is expressed as amount to be refunded = total input tax credit - GST payable, so be able to recognize that too)
journal entries for a merchandiser for the purchase of inventory on account from a supplier including GST
debit merchandise inventory (the sale price from the supplier which is not the sale price to the final consumer)
debit GST Receivable (extra to the sale price, based off the GST rate, percentage of that sale price)
credit Accounts Payable (the full amount to the company you are buying from)
To record purchase of merchandise inventory on account
so the merchandiser ends up paying more to cover the GST and that GST is given to the supplier, who will then give that to the receiver general
notice that accounts payable will be different than the sale price since the sale price does not include taxes
GST receivable is the amount that the merchandiser has to pay the supplier at the time of sale, and is debited here; this implies that we will be getting that GST back from the final consumer and then that portion is seen as a credit at that time towards the taxes you must pay to the receiver general. GST receivable is an asset, just like any other receivable.
The paying of GST is totaled in the account payable on that very first entry.
No PST for merchandisers since they are not the final consumer.
journal entries for the sale of merchandise from the merchandiser to the final consumer of the product; the final consumer is using cash to pay
debit cash (the selling amount to the final consumer plus the PST and GST)
credit sales (the selling amount only)
credit PST Payable (this is the first entry where PST is shown since PST is only collected by the merchandiser who is making the final sale of that product, so only the customer is responsible for paying the PST, but it is collected by the merchandiser on behalf of the receiver general)
credit GST Payable (the customer’s portion, but still the “full” percentage of the sales, since GST is collected every time a product changes hands)
to record cash sale
ALSO YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING ENTRY:
debit COGS
credit Merchandise Inventory
you may credit HST Payable if that province is using harmonized sales tax
you may not have an entry for PST if that province does not use PST
GST is charged to the merchandiser and to the final consumer, but in these entries we are only seeing the final consumer’s GST. The merchandiser’s GST was collected by the supplier already when they originally got their stock in.
However, once that GST has been charged twice, it is then rectified with the input tax credit taking away from the taxes payable to the receiver general. So the receiver general is not receiving twice the GST. They are just receiving the appropriate percentages of GST based on the sale at that time. This is rather complicated, but you are able to follow the journal entries now so that is a start.
PST is only charged to the final consumer
what are the journal entries to record remittance of sales taxes assuming PST and GST were paid at the time of sales
debit PST payable (to reverse the PST payable credit from earlier)
debit GST payable (to reverse the GST payable credit from earlier)
credit GST receivable (to reverse the GST receivable debit that was done at the very start when purchasing from the supplier as the merchandiser)
credit cash (the amount you are paying the government authority)
to record remittance of sales taxes to the appropriate government authority
The input tax credit allows the merchandiser to track that they have paid their portion of GST to the supplier. It makes it easier for the receiver general to see that all GST is getting paid. So you are basically required as a merchandiser to pay the GST and PST from the consumer to the receiver general, and the money that you already paid the supplier gives you a discount on how much you have to pay the receiver general.
What are the journal entries to record the conversion of an account payable to a note payable?
debit accounts payable to the specific supplier
credit notes payable to the specific supplier
to record the conversion of a supplier’s account to a 5%, 60-day note dated Dec 5, 2023 (numbers here are just an example to show what the description could include)
What is the adjusting entry to accrue interest on a note payable?
debit interest expense
credit interest payable
to record the adjusting entry on Dec 31 to accrue interest from Dec 5 to Dec 31
What is the journal entry to record the payment of the principal and interest at maturity of a note payable?
debit notes payable (to the specific supplier; the total principal amount)
debit interest expense (the newest interest that came)
debit interest payable (the amount from before to reverse that entry)
credit cash (the total amount that you are paying to take away the entire debt)
to record the payment of the principal and interest at maturity on Feb 3, 2024 (numbers are just an example of what you could include in the description)
to final consumer example of service provided in Yukon: answer the question in the picture
Two common examples of estimated liabilities
- warranties
- income taxes
warranty and journal entries required
- obligation incurred by the seller of a product or services to replace or repair defects
- typically apply for a limited period of time
- seller does not know which product/service, when, or amount in advance
- must ensure to match the warranty expense to the period in which the revenue was realized, so you will need to estimate the warranty expense and double entry it with the liability
debit warranty expense
credit estimated warranty liability
to record estimated warranty expense and related liability
Then when warranty work is performed:
debit estimated warranty liability
credit parts inventory
credit wages payable
to record the actual costs of parts and labour for warranty work
How do you record estimated income tax expense?
debit income tax expense (to match the expense to the correct month)
credit income tax payable (to create a liability until the monthly payments of income tax is actually paid but based on an annual estimate that will be adjusted later when the company determines what income tax was actually calculated at the end of the year)
Keep in mind that this expense is recorded at the end of each accounting month, and is likely being payed monthly but on a different date than this entry.
How do you record payment of income tax?
Debit income tax payable (to reverse the liability that was created at the end of the month prior)
Credit cash (to show cash leaving)
How do you correct the income tax expense now that you know what the income tax is at the end of the year? (You had been doing monthly payments based on an estimate up to this point)
Keep in mind that you have not yet made your entry for the end of that month, so even if the estimated amount was too high, you likely still have to show it as you having more expense to make up for the month that hasn’t been recorded yet. So if there is still something to pay in that month, show that amount in the following entries:
debit income tax expense
credit income tax payable
to report income tax expense
You may have to use a reverse debit and credit if you severely overestimated how much tax you would need to pay over the year.
So the calculation will be to look at what you have already paid in taxes (11 months worth of the estimated amount), and compare that to how much total taxes you actually need to pay over the 12 months. Use the above entries if you still need to pay more. If not, then reverse the entries to show that negative number.
contingent liability
the liability is not probable or
the liability cannot be reliably estimated
- these are not recorded but must be recorded in the notes to the financial statements (unless there is a remote likelihood of its existence)
E.g.: a contingent liability can be a lawsuit where it is probable that there will be a loss but the amount cannot be reliably determined
contingent asset
the asset cannot be reliably estimated
contingent assets are not recorded until actually realized
If a contingent asset is probable, it is disclosed in the notes to the financial statements
How do you record it when an item that is defective is returned to you and replaced with a new one? Assume the item returned to you is thrown away immediately upon receipt.
debit estimated warranty liability
credit merchandise inventory
bonds
debt instrument that requires future repayment of the original amount at a fixed date as well as periodic interest payments during the intervening period (intervening here means between two points in time so between when the bond is issued to when it matures, called the maturity date)
- pay only interest at regular intervals to investors
- original investment is only repaid to a bondholder when it comes due (matures) and this is many years later
- issued to many investors (usually)
loans
- repaid in equal payments combining both interest and principal paid to creditors (called blended payments)
- interest is on the remaining balance of the loan
debt financing
issuing long-term debt in order to finance the corporation including long-term debt such as bonds (section 9.4) and loans (section 9.5)
equity financing
issuing shares in order to finance the corporation (discussed further in chapter 10)
bond indenture
contract between corporation and the future bondholders specifying how much interest will be paid and when and other terms such as future borrowing privileges
trustee (context = bonds)
administers the terms of the bond indenture (also known as “indenture”) acting as the intermediary between the corporation and the bondholder
two rights of individual bondholders
- the right to receive the face value of the bond at the maturity date (the maturity date must be specified)
- the right to receive periodic interest payments at a specified percent of the bond’s face value
What is the difference between an authorized bond and an issued bond?
Bonds must be authorized before they are issued. Sometimes bonds will be authorized and not issued because the cash is not actually needed just yet. Authorized bonds can be issued whenever cash is required.
pledge an asset (context = bonds)
pledge = formal promise or agreement
to pledge an asset means to promise to give up the asset should the company not be able to repay the bond amount (principal) or interest back to the bondholder
the asset pledged is usually worth twice the amount of the bond giving bondholders a large margin of safety should the asset’s value shrink substantially
secured bonds
bonds backed by physical assets of the corporation (usually long-lived assets)
(a physical long-lived asset is legally pledged as security)