Question seventeen: The trial balance as at 30 April 20X7 of Timber Products Limited was balanced by the inclusion of the following debit balance: Difference on trial balance suspense account shs.2,513. Subsequent investigations revealed the following errors: (i) Discounts received of shs.324 in January 20X7 have been posted to the debit of the discounts allowed account. (ii) Wages of shs.2,963 paid in February 20X7 have not been posted from the cash book. (iii) A remittance of shs.940 received from K Mitcham in November 20X6 has been posted to the credit of B Mansell Limited. (iv) In December 20X6, the company took advantage of an opportunity to purchase a large quantity of stationery at a bargain price of shs.2,000. No adjustments have been made in the accounts for the fact that three-quarters, in value, of this stationery was in stock on 30 April 20X7. (v) A payment of shs.341 to J Winters in January 20X7 has been posted in the personal account as shs.143. (vi) A remittance of shs.3,000 received from D North, a credit customer, in April 20X7 has been credited to sales. The draft accounts for the year ended 30 April 20X7 of Timber Products Limited show a net profit of shs.24,760. Required: (a) Prepare the difference on trial balance suspense account showing, where appropriate, the entries necessary to correct the accounting errors. (b) Prepare a computation of the corrected net profit for the year ended 30 April 20X7 following corrections for the above accounting errors.
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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