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ISBN: 9780470374
Book Title: Intermediate Accounting
Book Author: Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Terry D. Warfield,
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P7-2 (Bad-Debt Reporting) presented below are a series of unrelated situations.

  1. Halen Company’s unadjusted trial balance at December 31, 2010, included the following accounts

 

Debit

Credit

Allowance for doubtful accounts

$4,000

 

Net sales

 

$1,200,000

Halen Company estimates its bad debt expense to be 1½% of net sales. Determine its bad debt expense for 2010.

  1. An analysis and aging of Stuart Corp. Accounts receivable at December 31, 2010, disclosed the following:

Amounts estimated to be uncollectible

$180,000

Accounts receivable

1,750,000

Allowance for doubtful accounts (per books)

125,000

What is the net realizable value of Stuart’s receivables at December 31, 2010?

  1. Shore Co. provides for doubtful accounts based on 3% of credit sales. The following data are available for 2010.

Credit sales during 2010

$2,400,000

Allowance for doubtful accounts 1/1/10

17,000

Collection of accounts written off in prior years

(customer credit was reestablished)

 

8,000

Customer accounts written off as uncollectible during 2010

30,000

What is the balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts at December 31, 2010?

  1. At the end of its first year of operations, December 31, 2010, Darden Inc. reported the following information.

Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts

$950,000

Customer accounts written off as uncollectible during 2010

24,000

Bad debt expense for 2010

84,00

What should be the balance in accounts receivable at December 31, 2010, before subtracting the allowance for doubtful accounts?

  1. The following accounts were taken from Bullock Inc.’s trial balance at December 31, 2010.

 

Debit

Credit

Net credit sales

 

$750,000

Allowance for doubtful accounts

$14,000

 

Accounts receivable

310,000

 

If doubtful accounts are 3% of accounts receivable, determined the bad debt expense to be reported for 2010.

 

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Answer the questions relating to each of the five independent situations are requested.

 

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Preview: ... ations. Question 1 Bad debt expense = Net sales x bad debt expense allowance Bad debt expense = $1,200,000 x 1½% = $18,000   Question 2 Net realizable value = Accounts receivable – Allowance for doubtful accounts Net realizable value = $1,750,000 - ...

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