FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
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The following transactions were completed by The Wild Trout Gallery during the current fiscal year ended December 31:

Jan. 19. Reinstated the account of Arlene Gurley, which had been written off in the preceding year as uncollectible. Journalized the receipt of $1,565 cash in full payment of Arlene’s account.
Apr. 3. Wrote off the $8,970 balance owed by Premier GS Co., which is bankrupt.
July 16. Received 30% of the $16,100 balance owed by Hayden Co., a bankrupt business, and wrote off the remainder as uncollectible.
Nov. 23. Reinstated the account of Harry Carr, which had been written off two years earlier as uncollectible. Recorded the receipt of $2,550 cash in full payment.
Dec. 31. Wrote off the following accounts as uncollectible (one entry): Cavey Co.,$6,745; Fogle Co., $2,005; Lake Furniture, $5,150; Melinda Shryer, $1,455.
Dec. 31. Based on an analysis of the $793,500 of accounts receivable, it was estimated that $34,500 will be uncollectible. Journalized the adjusting entry.

Required:

1. Record the January 1 credit balance of $32,900 in a T account presented below in requirement 2b for Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.

2. a. Journalize the transactions. For a compound transaction, if an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank. Note: For the December 31 adjusting entry, assume the $793,500 balance in accounts receivable reflects the adjustments made during the year.

Jan. 19-reinstate      
       
Jan. 19-collection      
       
Apr. 3      
       
July 16      
       
       
Nov. 23-reinstate      
       
Nov. 23-collection      
       
Dec. 31-write-off      
       
       
       
       
Dec. 31-adjusting      
       

2. b. Post each entry that affects the following T accounts and determine the new balances:

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
    Jan. 1 Balance  
       
       
       
       
    Dec. 31 Adjusted Balance  


Bad Debt Expense
       

3.  Determine the expected net realizable value of the accounts receivable as of December 31 (after all of the adjustments and the adjusting entry).

4.  Assuming that instead of basing the provision for uncollectible accounts on an analysis of receivables, the adjusting entry on December 31 had been based on an estimated expense of ½ of 1% of the sales of $4,900,000 for the year, determine the following:

a.  Bad debt expense for the year.

b.  Balance in the allowance account after the adjustment of December 31.

c.  Expected net realizable value of the accounts receivable as of December 31 (after all of the adjustments and the adjusting entry).

 

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Journal entries are recording of the transaction in the accounting journal in a chronological order. The entries are recorded as the Debit balances and Credit balances. 

The golden rules of accounting that are needed to be kept in mind for journalizing: 

  1. Personal account: The receiver needs to be debit; the giver needs to be credit.
  2. Real account: What comes in needs to be debit; what goes out needs to be credit”
  3. Nominal account: All expenses and losses need to be debit; all incomes and gains needs to be credit.”
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