Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781118162286
Author: Kimmel, Paul D.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Chapter 8, Problem 8.2AP

(a)

To determine

Accounts receivable

Accounts receivable refers to the amounts to be received within a short period from customers upon the sale of goods, and services on account. In other words, accounts receivable are amounts customers owe to the business. Accounts receivable is an asset of a business.

Bad debt expense:

Bad debt expense is an expense account. The amounts of loss incurred from extending credit to the customers are recorded as bad debt expense. In other words, the estimated uncollectible accounts receivable are known as bad debt expense.

Allowance method:

It is a method for accounting bad debt expense, where uncollectible accounts receivables are estimated and recorded at the end of a particular period. Under this method, bad debts expenses are estimated and recorded prior to the occurrence of actual bad debt, in compliance with matching principle, by using the allowance for doubtful account.

Write-off:

Write-off refers to deduction of a certain amount from accounts receivable, when it becomes uncollectible.

To record: The journal entries for the given transactions.

(b)

To determine

the balance in allowance for doubtful accounts and accounts receivable using T-account.

(c)

To determine

To prepare: The adjusting entry for recording the bad debt expenses for 2014, using the estimated bad debt of $46,000.

(d)

To determine

To compute: The accounts receivable turnover and average collection period.

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Chapter 8 Solutions

Financial Accounting

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