DJs Auto Repair, Inc., ended December 2017 with Accounts Receivable of $8,500 and a credit balance of

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DJ’s Auto Repair, Inc., ended December 2017 with Accounts Receivable of $8,500 and a credit balance of $275 in Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts. During January 2018, DJ’s Auto Repair, Inc., completed the following transactions:

a. Sales of $85,000, which included $62,000 in credit sales and $23,000 of cash sales. Ignore cost of goods sold.

b. Cash collections on account, $66,000.

c. Write-offs of uncollectible receivables, $325.

d. Bad debt expense, estimated as 1% of credit sales.


Requirements

1. Prepare journal entries to record sales (ignore cost of goods sold), collections, write-offs of uncollectibles, and bad debt expense using the percent of sales method.

2. Calculate the ending balances in Accounts Receivable, Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts, and net Accounts Receivable at January 31, 2018. How much does DJ’s Auto Repair expect to collect?

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: 978-0134727790

5th edition

Authors: Robert Kemp, Jeffrey Waybright

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