In: Accounting
Ken Young and Kim Sherwood organized Reader Direct as a
corporation; each contributed $49,000 cash to start the business
and received 4,000 shares. The store completed its first year of
operations on December 31, 2017. On that date, the following
financial items for the year were determined: cash on hand and in
the bank, $47,500; amounts due from customers from sales of books,
$26,900; property and equipment, $48,000; amounts owed to
publishers for books purchased, $8,000; one-year note payable to a
local bank for $2,850. No dividends were declared or paid to the
shareholders during the year.
Required:
1. Complete the balance sheet at December 31,
2017.
2. Using the retained earnings equation and an
opening balance of $0, work backward to compute the amount of net
income for the year ended December 31, 2017.
3. As of December 31, 2017, did most of the
financing for assets come from creditors or shareholders?
Shareholders
Creditors
4. Assuming that Reader Direct generates net
income of $3,000 and pays dividends of $2,000 in 2018, what would
be the company’s ending Retained Earnings balance at December 31,
2018?