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ISBN: 9780137391707

Author: GORDON

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 9, Problem 9.6BE

Sales Discounts, Most-Likely-Amount Method. On July 1, Oura Corp made a sale of $450,000 to Stratus, Inc on account. Terms of the sale were 2/10, n/30 Stratus makes payment on July 29. Oura uses the most-likely-amount method and assumes that the customer will take the discount when accounting for sales discounts Ignore cost of goods sold and the reduction of inventory.

a. Prepare all Oura’s journal entries
b. What net sales does Oura report?

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Solution Summary: The author explains the most likely method of accounting for sales discount. Journalizing is the process of recording the transactions of an organization in a chronological order.

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