During its first year of operations, Purple Company recorded sales of $4,000,000. Based on industry statistics, Purple estimates 5% of all sales will be returned. Actual returns during the year totaled $160,000. The year-end adjusting journal entry to account for estimated sales returns would include a: Credit to Refund Liability of $40,000 Debit to Sales Returns of $200,000 Credit to Sales Returns of $40,000 Debit to Refund Liability of $200,000
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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.
![During its first year of operations, Purple Company recorded sales of $4,000,000. Based on industry statistics, Purple estimates 5% of all sales will be returned. Actual
returns during the year totaled $160,000.
The year-end adjusting journal entry to account for estimated sales returns would include a:
Credit to Refund Liability of $40,000
Debit to Sales Returns of $200,000
Credit to Sales Returns of $40,000
Debit to Refund Liability of $200,000
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