A. On July 1, Lopez Company paid $2,200 for six months of insurance coverage. No adjustments have been made to the Prepaid Insurance account, and it is now December 31. b. Zim Company has a Supplies account balance of $7,000 at the beginning of the year. During the year, it purchased $3,000 of supplies. As of December 31, a physical count of supplies shows $1,300 of supplies available.

Required:
Prepare the year-end adjusting entries to reflect expiration of the insurance and correctly report the balance of the Supplies account and the Supplies Expense account as of December 31.

Answer and Explanation:

The Journal entries are shown below:-

1. Insurance expenses Dr, $2,200

        To Prepaid insurance $2,200

(Being insurance coverage expired is recorded)

2. Supplies expenses Dr, $11,300 ($7,000 + $3,000 + $1,300)

         To Supplies $11,300

(Being supplies expenses is recorded)

These two entries should be considered

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.