P6-7 Recording Sales, Returns, and Bad Debts (Chapter Supplement) Recording Sales, Returns, and Bad Debts (AP6-7) P6-7 Use the data presented in P6-1, which were selected from the records of Sykes Company for the year ended December 31, current year. Assume a unit cost of $300 in all the sales transactions. Transactions during current year a. Sold merchandise for cash, $235,000. b. Sold merchandise to R. Smith; invoice price, $11,500. c. Sold merchandise to K. Miller; invoice price, $26,500. d. Two days after purchase date, R. Smith returned one of the units purchased in (b) and received account credit. e. Sold merchandise to B. Sears; invoice price, $24,000. f. R. Smith paid his account in full within the discount period. g. Collected $98,000 cash from customer sales on credit in prior year, all within the discount periods. h. K. Miller paid the invoice in (c) within the discount period. i. Sold merchandise to R. Roy; invoice price, $19,000. j. Three days after paying the account in full, K. Miller returned seven defective units and received a cash refund. k. After the discount period, collected $6,000 cash on an account receivable on sales in a prior year. l. Wrote off a prior year account of $3,000 after deciding that the amount would never be collected. m. The estimated bad debt rate used by the company was 1.5 percent of credit sales net of returns. Required: 1. Give the journal entries for these transactions, including the write-off of the uncollectible account and the adjusting entry for estimated bad debts. Show computations for each entry. 2. Show how the accounts related to the preceding sales and collection activities should be reported on the current year income statement