Refer to Exercise. On September 30, Hilly Mountain Party Planners had a $30,000 balance in Accounts Receivable

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Refer to Exercise. On September 30, Hilly Mountain Party Planners had a $30,000 balance in Accounts Receivable and a $2,000 credit balance in Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts. During October, the store made credit sales of $161,000. October collections on account were $137,000, and write-offs of uncollectible receivables totaled $2,300. Uncollectible-account expense is estimated as 4% of revenue.

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1. Record uncollectible-account expense for October by the direct write-off method.
2. What amount of accounts receivable would Hilly Mountain report on its October 31 balance sheet under the direct write-off method? Does it expect to collect the full amount?

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: 978-0136108863

8th Edition

Authors: Walter T. Harrison, Charles T. Horngren, William Bill Thomas

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