Gable Incorporated provides legal services. During 2015, the company provides services of $500,000 on account. Of this
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Gable Incorporated provides legal services. During 2015, the company provides services of $500,000 on account. Of this amount, $70,000 remains uncollected at the end of the year. An aging schedule as of December 31, 2015, is provided below.
Required:
1. Calculate the allowance for uncollectible accounts.
2. Record the December 31, 2015, adjustment, assuming the balance of Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts before adjustment is $500 (debit).
3. On April 3, 2016, a customer’s account balance of $600 is written off as uncollectible. Record the write-off.
4. On July 17, 2016, the customer, whose account was written off in Requirement 3, unexpectedly pays $200 of the amount but does not expect to pay any additional amounts. Record the cashcollection.
Aging schedule is an accounting table that shows a company’s account receivables. It is an summarized presentation of accounts receivable into a separate time brackets that the rank received based upon the days due or the days past due. Generally...
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Financial Accounting
ISBN: 978-0078025549
3rd edition
Authors: J. David Spiceland, Wayne Thomas, Don Herrmann