Question

Listed below are accounts that appear in financial statements.

Required: Identify the financial statement(s) in which each of the following three accounts would be found. Note: An account may appear in more than one financial statement.
Balance sheet Income statement statement of changes
in retained earning
Dividends
Deffered Revenue
Service Revenue

Answer 1

Dividends - Statement of Changes in Retained Earning

Dividends are payments to shareholders from a company's net income. They are derived from the Statement of Changes in Retained Earning because this is where Net Income is sent to. After they are deducted from Retained Earnings, the Earnings form part of Equity.

Differed Revenue - Balance Sheet

Differed Revenue refers to money that was received from a customer or client for goods and/or services that have not yet been delivered. The business will treat them as a liability until they are delivered so they will go under Current Liabilities in the Balance Sheet assuming they are to be fulfilled in 12 months or less which is usually the case.

Service Revenue - Income Statement

These are revenue that the business earns for providing a service when their main source of revenue is by selling goods. It is listed in the Income Statement just after Revenue and is added to Revenue to get Total Revenue.