
INCOMPLETE RECORDS; INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENTS
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FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Question 5
The Questing Theatre Club is an amateur dramatic club that rents premises in which it
has established a theatre and bar for the use of its members. The club’s treasurer has pro-
duced the following summary of the club’s receipts and payments during the year ended
31 May 20X2:
Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 May 20X2
Receipts $ Payments $
Cash and bank balances b/f 1 , 120 Secretarial expenses 550
Members ’ subscriptions 4,460 Rent of premises 1,990
Donations 500 Production expenses 18,800
Bar takings 25,900 Bar suppliers 14,700
Ticket sales 17,320 Bar expenses 4,180
Grants and subsidies 13,800 Fees of guest artists 900
Stationery, printing & publicity 1,100
Purchase of theatre equipment 15,100
Other expenses 4,820
Cash and bank balances c/f 960
63,100 63,100
The treasurer has also been able to supply the following information:
1 June 20X1 31 May 20X2
$ $
Subscriptions in arrears 350 460
Subscriptions in advance 160 60
Owing to bar suppliers 1,300 1,650
Bar inventories 2,670 2,330
Production expenses owing 2,490 1,540
Stationery, printing and publicity prepaid 400 300
Valuation of bar equipment 14,500 11,500
Valuation of theatre equipment 35,000 46,000
The club’s chairman is keen that the report given to members should show the profi t
or loss made by the bar and the surplus or defi cit made on theatre productions. Only
those items that can be directly allocated to the bar or the theatre productions are to be
included.