Perform the following accounting for the receivables of Benoit, Brown & Hill, an accounting firm, at December

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Perform the following accounting for the receivables of Benoit, Brown & Hill, an accounting firm, at December 31, 2017.

1. Start with the beginning balances for these T-accounts:

Accounts Receivable, $80,000

• Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts, $9,000

Post the following 2017 transactions to the T-accounts:

a. Service revenue of $850,000, all on account

b. Collections on account, $790,000

c. Write-offs of uncollectible accounts, $7,000

d. Bad debt expense (allowance method), $8,000

2. What are the ending balances of Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts?

3. Show two ways Benoit, Brown & Hill could report accounts receivable on its balance sheet at December 31, 2017.

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...
Balance Sheet
Balance sheet is a statement of the financial position of a business that list all the assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity and shareholder’s equity at a particular point of time. A balance sheet is also called as a “statement of financial...
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Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0134564142

6th Canadian edition

Authors: Walter Jr. Harrison, Charles T. Horngren, C. William Thomas, Greg Berberich, Catherine Seguin

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