ACC 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Accounts Receivable, Matching Principle

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When collected, increase cash and eliminate receivable. Some cases, customer will return a product instead of paying for it. Sales returns and allowances is a contra-revenue account (balance is subtracted from sales when calculating a company"s net sales) and is a temporary account used to maintain record of returns in each period. Sometimes, discount is provided: e. g. sales are commonly made with terms 2/10, n/30 where customers can receive 2% discount if they pay within 10 days of invoice. Net realisable value amount of cash that a company expects to collect from its total accounts receivables. Allowance amount a company does not expect to collect. Bad debt expense expense resulting from inability to collect all accounts receivable. Usually combined with other operating expenses so it is rare to find a company"s bad debt expense listed separately. If listed separately, it is bad news as it is significant enough. Company determines that receivable is uncollectible and removes from records.

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