P8-2A Silk Co. reported the following information on its December 31, 2014, Accounts receivable Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts $760,000 ons; 76,000 sen- During 201 the company had the following transactions related to receivables: Sales on account, $2,800,000 Sales returns and allowances, $325,000 Collections of accounts receivable, $2,410,000 Interest added to overdue accounts, $72,000 Write offs of accounts consider uncollectible, $58,400 Collection of accounts previously written off as uncollectible, $5,2 Instructions (a) Prepare the summary journal entries to record each of these six transacti (b) Enter the December 31, 2014, balances in the Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts general ledger accounts, post the entries
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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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