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Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:Information from a sciences and publishing company follows ($ millions).
Year 7
a.
For Year Ended December 31
From income statement
Net income....
Bad debt expense.
Operating revenue.
December 31
From balance sheet
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful
accounts (Year 8, $212; Year 7, $183)..
C.
Year 8
$ 333
105
3,719
$ 291
81
3,534
For both Year 8 and Year 7, compute and comment on
1. The relation between bad debt expense and operating revenue.
Year 8
$951
$972
Bad debt expense on accounts receivable is substantial in relation to earnings. Assume a corporate tax rate of
40%. Information on accounts receivable written off and recoveries of accounts receivable previously written off
was not available from the annual reports.
Year 6
Required
What effect would each of the following have on Year 8 net income and Year 8 ending balance sheet ac-
counts? Ignore differences between tax and financial reporting systems.
$ 496
65
3,074
Year 7
1. Failure to record any bad debt expense.
2. Failure to write off a worthless account of $0.6 million.
b. Assuming insignificant recoveries of bad debts previously written off, estimate write-offs of accounts receiv-
able in Year 8.
2. The rate of uncollectible accounts as a percentage of gross accounts receivable.
3. The relation between bad debt expense and write-offs.
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