Required: 1-a. Determine Oettinger's accounts receivable balance at December 31, 20X1. 1-b. Prepare a journal entry for each transaction affecting the accounts receivable balance for 20X1. 2-a. Prepare an aging analysis. 2-b. Compute the required balance in the Allowance for credit losses at December 31, 20X1. 3. Prepare any other required journal entries affecting the Allowance for credit losses for the year ended December 31, 20X1. (Do not duplicate any entries from requirement 1.) 4. Show Oettinger's balance sheet presentation of accounts receivable at December 31, 20X1.
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.
![At December 31, 20X0, Oettinger Corporation, a premium kitchen cabinetmaker for the home remodeling industry,
reported the following accounts receivable information on its year-end balance sheet:
Gross accounts receivable
$850,000
Less: Allowance for credit losses
(25,000)
Accounts receivable (net)
$825,000
During 20X1, the company had credit sales of $8,200,000 of which it collected $7,975,000. Oettinger employs the
sales revenue approach to estimate its bad debt provisions and, continuing to use the same 1% used in previous
years, made the normal adjustment at the end of 20X1.
Although 20X1 started off well, the industry experienced a slowdown in the last four months of the year, and cash
collections consequently dropped off substantially. Moreover, a major customer, which owed Oettinger $85,000,
unexpectedly filed for bankruptcy and went out of business during November, at which time its account was written
off. Oettinger's controller is concerned that some customers are experiencing cash flow problems and that the
company's allowance for credit losses is too low. As a result, she prepared the following schedule:
% of Accounts
Receivable
Number of Days Past
Estimated %
Balance
Due
Collectible
20%
0-30
98%
40
31-60
95
35
61-90
85
3
91-120
75
2
Over 120
50
Required:
1-a. Determine Oettinger's accounts receivable balance at December 31, 20X1.
1-b. Prepare a journal entry for each transaction affecting the accounts receivable balance for 20X1.
2-a. Prepare an aging analysis.
2-b. Compute the required balance in the Allowance for credit losses at December 31, 20X1.
3. Prepare any other required journal entries affecting the Allowance for credit losses for the year ended December
31, 20X1. (Do not duplicate any entries from requirement 1.)
4. Show Oettinger's balance sheet presentation of accounts receivable at December 31, 20X1.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F3a6a71c1-23d4-4e32-a8fc-da0ed39e446d%2Fe82e2e68-f1a5-48b1-aebb-618bb0bf07db%2Fytfdjf_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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