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    if anyone can help I'd appreciate it. Im trying to do homework and my book is asking me to close all the nominal accounts and put them in journal entries. The book has about a half a page on it and doesn't clearly explain how I actually get the nominal accounts to zero. It says I have to either credit revenues or debit expenses, and that the nominal accounts have to go to real accounts or something like that. Clearly im very confused please someone help!!
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    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2008
     
    The revenue accounts and the expense accounts make up the majority of the nominal accounts. (These accounts are also referred to as temporary accounts.)

    The revenue accounts normally have a credit balance, so to close the revenue accounts you will need to debit each revenue account. For example is Sales has a credit balance of 20,000,000 then you need to debit the account for 20,000,000. The credit might go to another temporary account, Income Summary.

    The expense accounts will likely have debit balances, so to close the expense accounts you will ned to credit each expense account for its balance. The debit might also go to Income Summary.

    After all of the revenue and expense accounts are closed, you close the Income Summary account. If the balance is a credit, you would debit Income Summary and would credit Owner's Capital (if a sole proprietorship) or Stockholders' Equity (if a corporation). The owner's capital account and the corporation's Retained Earnings account are real or permanent, balance sheet accounts.



 

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