ACCT 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: List Price, Gross Profit, Mastercard

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Merchandising businesses and related sales recognition issues. Purchase recognition issues for the merchandising business. Merchants: business models based upon purchasing inventory and reselling it at a higher price. Operating expenses: general category for selling and administrative costs. Sales (cr: revenue account used for sales of merchandise. Sales returns and allowances (dr: used when a customer returns merchandise, debit sales returns and allowances. Contra-revenue account that is deducted from sales to yield net sales : document with credit memorandum. Trade discounts: list price: established price determined by reference to a catalog or general price list, trade discount: reduction from list price that is not entered in the accounting records. Not considered part of sale: invoice price: list price less trade discount. This amount is recorded in accounting records. Credit cards: often used my merchants, other forms of credit cards like visa and master card are accepted. Billing and collection is handled by credit card company (2-4 %

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