At December 31, 2021, the general ledger and subsidiary ledger for Wow?s, a small beauty supply company,

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At December 31, 2021, the general ledger and subsidiary ledger for Wow?s, a small beauty supply company, showed the following:

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Jan. 3 Hair Designs paid $8,000 on its account.

4 New Do paid $900 on its account that had previously been written off .

8 Great Looks purchased $3,000 of merchandise on account.

9 Your Spa paid cash for $2,000 of merchandise.

18 Great Looks returned $500 of merchandise

19 Luxury Spa paid $5,000 on its account.

20 Great Looks paid $10,000 on its account.

23 Hair Designs purchased $9,000 on account.

24 Ken?s Salon paid $3,000 on account.

25 New Do purchased $5,000 of merchandise on Visa.

26 Luxury Spa purchased $12,000 of merchandise on account.

31 Wow?s determined that the Ken?s Salon account receivable was not collectible.

Instructions

a. Record the above transactions. Ignore credit card fees and any inventory and cost of goods sold for the purposes of this question.

b. Set up T accounts for the Accounts Receivable general ledger (control) account, the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts general ledger account, and the Accounts Receivable subsidiary ledger accounts.

Post the journal entries to these accounts.

c. Wow?s estimated that 6% of accounts receivable is not collectible. Record the required adjustment to the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.

d. Prepare a list of customers and the balances of their accounts from the subsidiary ledger. Prove that the total of the subsidiary ledger is equal to the control account balance.

What types of errors could result if the total of the account balances in the subsidiary ledger did not agree with the general ledger control account?

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Accounting Principles Volume 1

ISBN: 978-1119502425

8th Canadian Edition

Authors: Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso, Paul D. Kimmel, Barbara Trenholm, Valerie Warren, Lori Novak

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