You are engaged in the annual examination of Faulane Company, a wholesale office supply business, for the
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You are engaged in the annual examination of Faulane Company, a wholesale office supply business, for the year ended June 30, 2007. You have been assigned to examine the accounts receivable. The following information is available at June 30, 2007.
1. Your review of accounts receivable and discussions with the client disclose that the following items are included in the accounts receivable (of both the control and the subsidiary ledgers):
a. Accounts with credit balances total $1,746
b. Receivables from officers total $8,500
c. Advances to employees total $1,411
d. Accounts that are definitely uncollectible total $1,187
2. Uncollectible accounts are estimated to be 0.50% of the year’s net credit sales of $16,750,000.
Required
Prepare any journal entry (entries) required:
1. To reclassify items that are not trade accounts receivable,
2. To write off uncollectible accounts, and
3. To adjust the allowance for doubtful accounts.
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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Intermediate Accounting
ISBN: 978-0324300987
10th Edition
Authors: Loren A Nikolai, D. Bazley and Jefferson P. Jones