Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781305088436
Author: Carl Warren, Jim Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
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Chapter 9, Problem 9E
Waddell Industries has a past history of uncollectible accounts, as follows. Estimate the allowance for doubtful accounts, based on the aging of receivables schedule you completed in Exercise 9-8.
The accounts receivable clerk for Waddell Industries prepared the following partially completed aging of receivables schedule as of the end of business on August 31:
The following accounts were unintentionally omitted from the aging schedule and not included in the preceding subtotals:
- a. Determine the number of days past due for each of the preceding accounts as of August 31.
- b. Complete the aging of receivables schedule by adding the omitted accounts to the bottom of the schedule and updating the totals.
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Domino Company ages its accounts receivable to estimate uncollectible accounts expense. Domino began Year 2 with balances in Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts of
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$ 109,980
% Likely to be
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Cindy Bagnal, the manager of Cayce Printing Service, has provided the following aging schedule for Cayce’s accounts receivable: Cindy indicates that the $121,100 of accounts receivable identified in the table does not include$4,600 of receivables that should be written off.Required:1. Journalize the $4,600 write-off.2. Determine the desired postadjustment balance in allowance for doubtful accounts (round each aging category to the nearest dollar).3. If the balance in allowance for doubtful accounts before the $4,600 write-off was a debit of $700, compute bad debt expense. Prepare the adjusting entry to record bad debt expense.
Domino Company uses the aging of accounts receivable method to estimate uncollectible accounts expense. Domino began Year 2 with balances in Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts of $46,310 and $3,650, respectively. During the year, the company wrote off $2,740 in uncollectible accounts. In preparation for the company's Year 2 estimate, Domino prepared the following aging schedule:
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Receivables amount
% Likely to be uncollectible
Current
$77,000
1%
0-30
28,400
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3,920
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3,600
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