ACCT 1201 Lecture Notes - Accounts Receivable, Current Liability, Financial Statement

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Credit card discounts, sales discounts, and sales returns and allowances. Gross profit percentage = gross profit net sales. Revenue cost of goods sold / revenue. Measures company"s ability to charge premium prices and produce goods and services at low cost. Ceteris paribus, gross profit = net income. A company sells magazines and collects subscription fees prior to the publication and distribution of the magazine. Bad debt expense and allowance for doubtful accounts. Direct method: directly write off a/r when know that the customer will not make payment not gaap. When an asset isn"t useful it becomes an expense. Allowance method: two-step process, 1) make the end of the period adjusting entry to record estimated. Bad debt expense (adjusting entry) 2) write off specific accounts gaap: accounting for bad debts - when a company sells on credit, it knows that some of these customers will not pay their debts.

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