At December 31, 2019, Catu Medical reported the following information on its statement of financial position. Accounts
Question:
At December 31, 2019, Catu Medical reported the following information on its statement of financial position.
Accounts receivable R$960,000
Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts 80,000
During 2020, the company had the following transactions related to receivables.
1. Sales on account ..............................................................................................R$3,700,000
2. Sales returns and allowances ..................................................................................50,000
3. Collections of accounts receivable .....................................................................2,810,000
4. Write-off s of accounts receivable deemed uncollectible .....................................90,000
5. Recovery of bad debts previously written off as uncollectible ............................29,000
Instructions
a. Prepare the journal entries to record each of these five transactions. Assume that no cash discounts were taken on the collections of accounts receivable.
b. Enter the January 1, 2020, balances in Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts, post the entries to the two accounts (use T-accounts), and determine the balances.
c. Prepare the journal entry to record bad debt expense for 2020, assuming that an aging of accounts receivable indicates that expected bad debts are R$115,000.
d. Compute the accounts receivable turnover for 2020 assuming the expected bad debt information provided in (c).
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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Accounting Principles
ISBN: 978-1119419617
IFRS global edition
Authors: Paul D Kimmel, Donald E Kieso Jerry J Weygandt