At the end of last year, the company had $654,000 in outstanding Accounts Receivable and a credit balance for Allowance for Doubtful Account of $32,400. During the current fiscal year, the company reported the following: 1. service revenue of $1,240,000 was billed to customers on account. 2. $1,250,000 was collected on customers’ accounts receivable. 3. The company wrote off $42,100 in accounts receivable. 4. The company collected $2,300 of previously written off accounts receivable. 5. The company uses the percentage of receivables to estimate bad debts expense. Based on experience, uncollectible accounts are expected to be 4% of accounts receivable. a) prepare the journal entries to write-off of accounts receivable and the collection of the previously written off account during the year.
Bad Debts
At the end of the accounting period, a financial statement is prepared by every company, then at that time while preparing the financial statement, the company determines among its total receivable amount how much portion of receivables is collected by the company during that accounting period.
Accounts Receivable
The word “account receivable” means the payment is yet to be made for the work that is already done. Generally, each and every business sells its goods and services either in cash or in credit. So, when the goods are sold on credit account receivable arise which means the company is going to get the payment from its customer to whom the goods are sold on credit. Usually, the credit period may be for a very short period of time and in some rare cases it takes a year.
At the end of last year, the company had $654,000 in outstanding
1. service revenue of $1,240,000 was billed to customers on account.
2. $1,250,000 was collected on customers’ accounts receivable.
3. The company wrote off $42,100 in accounts receivable.
4. The company collected $2,300 of previously written off accounts receivable.
5. The company uses the percentage of receivables to estimate
a) prepare the
b) prepare the current year-end
c) prepare the accounts receivable section of the balance sheet for the current year end in classified format.
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