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Exercise 5-17A
Recording purchases and sales-periodic system P5
Exercise 5-7 Analyzing and recording merchandise transactions—both buyer and seller P1 P2
Check (3) $465 savings
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Santa Fe Company purchased merchandise for resale from Mesa Company with an invoice price of $24.000 and credit terms of 3/10, n/60. The merchandise had cost Mesa $16,000. Santa Fe paid within the discount period. Assume that both buyer and seller use a perpetual inventory system.
- Prepare entries that the buyer should record for (a) the purchase and (b) the cash payment.
- Prepare entries that the seller should record for (a) the sale and (b) the cash collection.
- Assume that the buyer borrowed enough cash to pay the balance on the last day of the discount period at an annual interest rate of 8% and paid it back on the last day of the credit period. Compute how much the buyer saved by following this strategy. (Assume a 365-day year and round dollar amounts to the nearest cent, including computation of interest per day.)
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