Intermediate Accounting
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259722660
Author: J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M Thomas
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 1.4BE
Basic assumptions and principles
• LO1–7 through LO1–9
Identify the accounting concept that was violated in each of the following situations.
1. Astro Turf Company recognizes an expense, cost of goods sold, in the period the product is manufactured.
2. McCloud Drug Company owns a patent that it purchased three years ago for $2 million. The controller recently revalued the patent to its approximate market value of $8 million.
3. Philips Company pays the monthly mortgage on the home of its president, Larry Crosswhite, and charges the expenditure to miscellaneous expense.
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LA Fashion has credit sales of $6,400,000 for the financial year ending June 30, 2021, and estimates
at the end of the financial year that five per cent of accounts receivable will not be received.
Accounts receivable total $3,100,000. The corporation uses the allowance method to account for
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Exercise 7-4 (Algo) Direct write-off method LO P1
Dexter Company uses the direct write-off method.
March 11 Dexter determines that it cannot collect $10,000 of its accounts receivable from Leer Company.
March 29 Leer Company unexpectedly pays its account in full to Dexter Company. Dexter records its recovery of this bad debt.
Prepare journal entries to record the above transactions.
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