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  • Dec 23, 2009, 10:45 PM
    Johburg74
    Interest expense payable not principle reduction
    Hello!
    I need to do a journal entry for payments from 4/11/07 to date that are interest not principle reduction.
    Please help!
  • Dec 25, 2009, 05:02 PM
    ROLCAM

    The journal entries are picked up from the actual payments:-

    DEBIT Interest Paid Account
    CREDIT Bank Account.

    Incidentally the word you need to use is PRINCIPAL not PRINCIPLE.
  • Jan 1, 2010, 01:30 PM
    pready

    Debit Interest Expense for the amount of interest paid
    Credit Cash for the amount
  • Jan 4, 2010, 09:25 PM
    morgaine300

    Theoretically, that's a prior period adjustment. Is this for class, a small company, what? The correct way to take an expense back to 2007 is to subtract it off the beginning retained earnings and not to charge 2007/08 into 09. But for a small company, you might get by with that, depending on who's using the statements and how material it is.

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