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Chapter 5Accounting Cycle and Year End

Copyright 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.5-2Objectives, page 175Restore data from the Exercise 4-2 backup. Record a compound journal entry.Write checks for expenses.Make deposits.Complete account reconciliation.Print a trial balance (unadjusted).Record and post quarterly adjusting entries in the General Journal.Print adjusted trial balance and financial statements.Close the fiscal year.Print a Postclosing Trial Balance.Make backups of Chapter 5 data.The chart in the Preface, page xii, shows the file name and size of each backup file. Refer to this chart for backing up data. Remember, you can back up to a hard drive location or external media.

5-3Compound Transactionspages 176-177A compound transaction is an entry that affects three or more accounts.

5-4Write Checks and Check Registerpages 177-179

5-5Accounting Cycle, page 182QuickBooks Accounting Cycle 1.Set up a company. 2.Record transactions.3.Post entries automatically.4.Account Reconciliation.5.Print the Trial Balance (unadjusted).6.Record and post adjusting entries.7.Print the Trial Balance (adjusted).8.Print the financial statements: balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow statement. 9.Close the fiscal year.10.Interpret accounting information.

5-6End-of-Quarter Adjusting Entriespages 184-187

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Closing the Fiscal Year and Postclosing Trial Balance, pages 193-194

The postclosing trial balance is shown on page 194.

5-8Summary and Reviewpages 196-202Each chapter ends with the following summary and review material:Resourceful QuickBooks includes using the QuickBooks Learning Center. (From the Help menu, select Learning Center Tutorials.)Multiple choice questions, True/Make True or Short Answer, and the Analysis questions are online at www.mhhe.com/QBessentials2014. Your instructor may want you to take these online tests or email the QA Templates.End-of-chapter exercises must be completed. The company data accumulates in Chapters 1 through 6.