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Chapter 7: Question: E7-9 (page 366)

Computing Bad Debts and Preparing Journal Entries) The trial balance before adjustment of Taylor Swift Inc. shows the following balances.

Debit

Credit

Accounts Receivable

\(90,000

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

1,750

Sales revenue (all on credit)

\)680,000

Instructions

Give the entry for estimated bad debts assuming that the allowance is to provide for doubtful accounts on the basis of (a) 4% of gross accounts receivable and (b) 5% of gross accounts receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a $1,700 credit balance.

Short Answer

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Debit and Credit side of journal totals$8,150.

Step by step solution

01

Definition of Bad Debt Expenses

Bad debt expense is an account reporting the amount of money due from the receivables that are now uncollectible.

02

Journal entries

Date

Accounts and Explanation

Debit $

Credit $

a

Bad debt expenses

$5,350

Allowance for doubtful accounts

$5,350

(To record the allowance for doubtful accounts)

b

Bad debt expenses

$2,800

Allowance for doubtful accounts

$2,800

(To record the allowance for doubtful accounts)

$8,150

$8,150

Working note:

  1. Calculation of allowance:Allowancefordoubtfulaccounts=Accountsreceivable脳Estimatedbaddebtpercentage+Debitbalanceofallowance=$90,000脳4%+1,750=$5,3502.Calculation of allowance:Allowanceofdoubtfulaccounts=Accountsreceivables脳Estimatedbaddebtpercentage-creditbalanceofallowance=$90,000脳5%-1,700=$2,800









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Most popular questions from this chapter

Under IFRS:

(a) the entry to record estimated uncollected accounts is the same as GAAP.

(b) loans and receivables should only be tested for impairment as a group.

(c) it is always acceptable to use the direct write-off method.

(d) all financial instruments are recorded at fair value.

On September 30, 2016, Rolen Machinery Co. sold a machine and accepted the customer鈥檚 zero-interest-bearing note. Rolen normally makes sales on a cash basis. Since the machine was unique, its sales price was not determinable using Rolen鈥檚 normal pricing practices.

After receiving the first of two equal annual installments on September 30, 2017, Rolen immediately sold the note with recourse. On October 9, 2018, Rolen received notice that the note was dishonored, and it paid all amounts due. At all times prior to default, the note was reasonably expected to be paid in full.

Instructions

(c) How should Rolen account for the effects of the note being dishonored?

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Instructions

(a) Prepare the journal entry on July 1, 2017, for JFK Corp. to record the sale of receivables without recourse.

(b) Prepare the journal entry on July 1, 2017, for LBJ Finance Corporation to record the purchase of receivables without recourse.

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Instructions

(a) Prepare the April 1, 2017, journal entry for Rasheed Company.

(b) Prepare the journal entry for Rasheed鈥檚 collection of $350,000 of the accounts receivable during the period from April 1, 2017, through June 30, 2017.

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