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+You need to prepare the closing entries once you're done with all the necessary adjustments.
+This is to bring the temporary account balances on the general ledger (includes revenue, expense and dividend accounts). All income statement balances are eventually transferred to retained earnings.
Closing entries refer to journal entries passed at the end of an accounting period to transfer the balances of various temporary ledger accounts to some permanent ledger account.
Temporary accounts (also known as nominal accounts) are ledger accounts used to record transactions for only a single accounting period and are closed at the end of the period by making appropriate closing entries. In next accounting period, these accounts normally start with a zero balance. Temporary or nominal accounts include revenue, expense, dividend and income summary accounts.
Permanent accounts (also known as real accounts) are ledger accounts the balances of which continue to exist beyond the current accounting period (i.e., these accounts are not closed at the end of the period). In the next accounting period these accounts usually (but not always) start with a non-zero balance. All balance sheet accounts are examples of permanent or real accounts.
The permanent account to which all temporary accounts are closed is the retained earnings account in case of a company and owner’s capital account in case of a sole proprietorship.
The goal of any company, known as profit and loss at the end of the year. For this reason it was necessary to close the accounts and know the balance. For budgeting
Entries shall be closed for the year of the financial year from the other year and clarify the financial position of the company for the year ended.
Closing entries are prepared at the end of the accounting period. All the revenues and expenses accounts are transfered to the Income Summary or Retained Earnings Account in order to ensure that at the beginning of the next accounting period, we will have a zero balance on these accounts. This also done in order for us to properly reflect the performance of the company in terms of revenues, expenses or income in the next accounting period.
We prepare closing entries for the temporary accounts such as the revenue and expense accounts The closing entries are recorded after the financial statements for the accounting year are prepared. The reason for the closing entries is to ensure that each revenue and expense account will begin the next accounting year with a zero balance
The answer to the question is multiple depending on the nature of the item to be closed. For example, if a fixed asset is closed at the end of the life span of the asset, ie, the value of the accounting depreciation equals the value of the original. If, for example, the subject of the subject is missing, for example, if customers are closed at the time of payment if an item is included in the budget For example, if an item is included in the income statement, for example, the method of closing is also different.
Closing entries prepare at the end of accounting period and we prepare these entries to make revenue & expense accounts "zero". & we will begin the accounting period with "zero"
