Lubricants Ltd. Sells oil in drums which are charged at $ 10 each. Customers returning drums within a month are credited with $ 8. Following information is available from the books : No's. (a) Returnable drums as on 1-1-2014 4,000 (b) Drums physically in stock as on 1-1-2014 (c) Drums purchased in 2014 at $ 5 each 8,000 30,000 (d) Drums sent out in 2014 (e) Drums scrapped in 2014 (sold for $ 5,000) (f) Drums returned by the customers 5,00,000 2,000 4,80,000 (g) Drums sent out in December, 2014 lying with customers (h) All drums as on 1t January, 2014 were valued at $2 each (i) All drums as on 31st December, 2014 are to be valued at 50 per cent below cost price. G) Amount due from (Drums) Debtors as on 1st January, 2014 $ 10,000. (k) Amount received from (Drums) Debtors during the year -$11,00,000. 10,000 Prepare Ledger Accounts in the books of Lubricants Ltd.
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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.
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