Blackfly Ltd. had sales of $500,000 in 2007, all made on credit terms. The company collected $25,000 from credit sales made in 2006, and at the end of 2007 its customers owed the company $50,000. If its accounting policy is to provide for bad debts on the basis of 1% of sales, the bad debt expense would be * $10,000 $7,500 $5,500 $5,000 none of the above
Bad Debts
At the end of the accounting period, a financial statement is prepared by every company, then at that time while preparing the financial statement, the company determines among its total receivable amount how much portion of receivables is collected by the company during that accounting period.
Accounts Receivable
The word “account receivable” means the payment is yet to be made for the work that is already done. Generally, each and every business sells its goods and services either in cash or in credit. So, when the goods are sold on credit account receivable arise which means the company is going to get the payment from its customer to whom the goods are sold on credit. Usually, the credit period may be for a very short period of time and in some rare cases it takes a year.
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