The accounts receivable balance for City Shoe Repair at December 31, 2012, was $84,000. Also on that

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The accounts receivable balance for City Shoe Repair at December 31, 2012, was $84,000. Also on that date, the balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts was $2,400. During 2013, $2,100 of accounts receivable were written off as uncollectible. In addition, City Shoe Repair unexpectedly collected $150 of receivables that had been written off in a previous accounting period. Sales on account during 2013 were $218,000, and cash collections from receivables were $220,000. Uncollectible accounts expense was estimated to be 1 percent of the sales on account for the period.

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a. Organize the information in accounts under an accounting equation.
b. Based on the preceding information, compute (after year-end adjustment):
(1) Balance of Allowance for Doubtful Accounts at December 31, 2013.
(2) Balance of Accounts Receivable at December 31, 2013.
(3) Net realizable value of Accounts Receivable at December 31, 2013.
c. What amount of uncollectible accounts expense will City Shoe Repair report for 2013?
d. Explain how the $150 recovery of receivables affected the accounting equation.

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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