If a company purchases equipment costing $5,100 on credit, the effect on the accounting equation would be:

assets increase $5,100 and liabilities increase $5,100

Explanation:

Assets are the items that a company owns which can provide future economic benefit.

Liabilities are future sacrifices of economic benefits that an entity is obliged to make to other entities as a result of past transactions or other past events, hence Liabilities are what a person or company owe other parties.

If a company purchases equipment costing $5,100 on credit, the assets of the company will increase by $5100 as a result of acquiring an equipment. Also, the liability will increase by $5100 as a result of debt owed.

answer; post closing trial balance;

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.