33:010:272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Accounts Receivable

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Lecture 9 (chapter 8): accounts receivable & notes receivable. Most companies make sales on account, that is, they give the buyer some amount of time to pay. The question is how to treat the default expense. Bad debt expense is an adjusting entry much like depreciation expense rather than a matching entry at the time of sale (although there is no conceptual reason why it cannot be booked along with cogs). Ace co is a wholesaler that sells goods on standard terms of 2/10 n/30. They sell all over the u. s. and expect credit losses to be 2% of gross sales. During january, they sold ,000 worth of goods. ,000 was paid within 10 days and ,000 within 30 days. At the end of the month, ,000 sales were in accounts receivable. Prepare the entries for cash collections and for bad debt expense. Write off: one customer who owed ,000 declared bankruptcy dr allowance for uncollectibles cr accounts receivable.

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