Slow Running Shoes uses the Aging of receivables method to account for uncollectible accounts. o The balance in the Allowance for uncollectible account as at Jan 1", 2010 was $10,500 (credit) o The balance in the Accounts Receivable account as at Jan 1*, 2010 was $133,000. The company completed the following transactions during 2010 and 2011: 2010 June 10th Wrote off the balance of $600 from Manny Miller's account as uncollectible Re-instated the account of Betty Lou and recorded the collection of $1200 as payment in full for her account which had been written off earlier Recorded the uncollectible account expense September 15th December 31st
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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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