Loose Leaf for Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
Loose Leaf for Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781260158762
Author: John J Wild
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7, Problem 7SP

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Summary Introduction

Introduction: Accounts receivable are legitimately enforceable returns or payments which the organization will get from its clients who have bought its merchandise and services on credit. It is merely a promise to repay the vendor.

Bad debt is an amount that a company fails to receive when the debtors or become insolvent.

To prepare: Adjusting entry under following adjustments

  1. Bad debts are 1% of total revenue
  2. Bad debts are 2% of accounts receivables.

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Summary Introduction

Introduction: Accounts receivable are legitimately enforceable returns or payments which the organization will get from its clients who have bought its merchandise and services on credit. It is merely a promise to repay the vendor.

Bad debt is an amount that a company fails to receive when the debtors or become insolvent.

To prepare: Adjusting entry for bad debts

3.

Summary Introduction

Introduction: Accounts receivable are legitimately enforceable returns or payments which the organization will get from its clients who have bought its merchandise and services on credit. It is merely a promise to repay the vendor.

Bad debt is an amount that a company fails to receive when the debtors or become insolvent.

To explain: If direct write off method is better or allowance method for computing bad debts is better.

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