Concept explainers
(a)
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.
Allowance method:
It is a method for accounting bad debt expense, where amount of uncollectible accounts receivables are estimated and recorded at the end of particular period. Under this method,
Two methods to estimate uncollectible accounts under allowance method are:
- 1. Percentage of sales method, and
- 2. Analysis of receivables method.
Percentage of sales method:
Credit sales are recorded by debiting (increasing) accounts receivable account. The bad debts is a loss incurred out of credit sales, hence uncollectible accounts can be estimated as a percentage of credit sales or total sales.
It is a method of estimating the bad debts (expected loss on extending credit), by multiplying the expected percentage of uncollectible with the total amount of net credit sale (or total sales) for a specific period. Under percentage of sales method, estimated bad debts would be treated as a bad debt expense of the particular period.
The amount of the
(b)
The adjusted balances of accounts receivable, allowance for doubtful accounts, and bad debt expense.
(c)
Net realizable value of the accounts receivable.
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