Johnson company's financial year ended on December 31, 2010. All the transactions related to the company's uncollectible accounts are can be found below: January 15 Wrote of $440 account of Miller Company as uncollectible Re-establish the account of Louisa Teller and record the collection of $1,050 as payment in full for her account which had been written off earlier Received 40% of the $700 balance owed by William John and wrote off the remainder as April 2nd July 31 uncollectible Wrote off as uncollectible the accounts of Sherwin Company, $1,700 and V. Vasell $2,200 Received 25% of the $1,140 owed by Grant Company and wrote off the remainder as uncollectible Received $741 from M. Fuller in full payment of his account which had been written off earlier as uncollectible Estimated uncollectible accounts expense for the year to be 1.5% of net credit sales of $521,000 August 15 September 26 October 16 December 31 The accounts receivable account had a balance of $14,630 and the beginning balance in the allowance for uncollectible accounts was $6,200.
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.
Required:
1. Assume that the aging of
$7,050 of the accounts receivable as of December 31 were estimated to be uncollectible. You
are now required to:
a. Determine the amount to be charged to uncollectible expense (show your
workings for the computation of this figure).
b. Prepare the balance sheet extract to show the net realizable value of the Accounts
Receivable as at December 31
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