Gulig and Doherty, a law firm, started 2012 with accounts receivable of $26,000 and an allowance for

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Gulig and Doherty, a law firm, started 2012 with accounts receivable of $26,000 and an allowance for uncollectible accounts of $2,000. The 2012 service revenues on account totaled $183,000 and cash collections on account totaled $133,000. During 2012, Gulig and Doherty wrote off uncollectible accounts receivable of $2,500. At December 31, 2012, the aging of accounts receivable indicated that Gulig and Doherty will not collect $1,790 of its accounts receivable.
Journalize Gulig and Doherty’s
(a) Service revenue,
(b) Cash collections on account,
(c) Write-offs of uncollectible receivables, and
(d) Uncollectible-account expense for the year.
Explanations are not required.

Prepare a T-account for Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts to show your computation of uncollectible-account expense for the year.

Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...
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Financial accounting

ISBN: 978-0132751124

9th edition

Authors: Walter T. Harrison Jr., Charles T. Horngren, C. William Thom

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