Financial Accounting
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Author: J. David Spiceland, Wayne M Thomas, Don Herrmann
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Chapter 3, Problem 3.17E
1.
To determine
To Prepare: The necessary closing entries.
2.
To determine
To Calculate: The ending balance of retained earnings.
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The unadjusted trial balance of Fortune Company included the following accounts:
Debit $
Sales (80% on credit) for the year ended 31 Dec 2023
Credit $
900,500
Accounts Receivable 31 Dec 2023
209,070
Allowance for Impairment 1 Jan 2023
3,500
The aging of accounts receivable produced the following five groupings.
Days Past Due
Amount
Estimated
Uncollectible
% of
Not yet due
85,000
1%
1-30 days past due
56,000
3%
31-60 days past due
33,500
5%
61-90 days past due
18,570
10%
Over 90 days past due
16,000
15%
Required:
Prepare the adjusting entries to record the impairment loss of receivable for the year 2023. If Fortune
Company:
(a)
(b)
uses the Statement of Financial Position Approach to estimate the uncollectible accounts.
Show your workings.
uses the Income Statement Approach to estimate the uncollectible accounts, and it is
expected that 1% of the net credit sales for the year will be uncollectible.
During 2018, its first year of operations, Pave Construction provides services on account of $156,000. By the end of 2018, cash collections on these accounts total $108,000. Pave estimates that 20% of the uncollected accounts will be bad debts.
Required:
1. Record the adjustment for uncollectible accounts on December 31, 2018. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)
(MODIFIED) Spring Corporation has the following account balances on
December 31, 2020:
Accounts receivable Php 400,000
Allowance for uncollectible accounts8,400
Spring completed the following transactions in 2019:
А.
Net credit sales, Php 4,000,000.
В.
Collections on accounts, Php 3,870,000.
С.
Write-off of uncollectible accounts, Php 10,000.
D. Recovery of accounts previously written-off, Php 2,000.
Е.
Uncollectible accounts expense, 2/3 of 1% of net credit sales.
REQUIRED:
A. Journalize the foregoing transactions.
Compute the balance of accounts receivable and allowance for uncollectible
accounts at December 31, 2020. What amount of Accounts receivable, net would
Spring report on its December 31, 2020 balance sheet?
Assume that Spring uses the aging of accounts instead of the percent of sales
method in estimating uncollectible accounts. Analysis indicates that Php 30,800
of outstanding accounts on December 31, 2020 may prove to be uncollectible.
Compute for the uncollectible accounts…
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Financial Accounting
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