Exam 9: Receivables

The Allowance for Bad Debts account has a credit balance of $9,000 before the adjusting entry for bad debt expense. After analyzing the accounts in the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger using the aging method, the company's management estimates that uncollectible accounts will be $15,000. What will be the balance of the Allowance for Bad Debts reported on the balance sheet?

Interest rates are generally stated on a monthly basis.

The maturity value of a note is the:

The net realizable value of Accounts Receivable is calculated by subtracting Bad Debts Expense from Accounts Receivable.

Sales through credit cards or debit cards transfer the risk of collection of receivables from the seller to the card issuer.

A method of accounting for uncollectible receivables in which the company estimates bad debts expense instead of waiting to see which customers the company will not collect from is known as the allowance method.

Smart Art is a new establishment. During the first year, there were credit sales of $40,000 and collections of credit sales of $36,000. One account for $650 was written off. The company decided to use the percent-of-sales method to account for bad debts expense, and use a factor of 2% for their year-end adjustment of bad debts expense. Prepare the entry to record the bad debt expense.

On January 1, Ajax Corp accepted a one-year note for $50,000 at 5% from one of its customers. When the note matured on December 31, the customer was unable to pay, and the company recorded the dishonor. The amount of the debit in the dishonor entry would be:

Smart Art is a new establishment. During the first year, there were credit sales of $40,000 and collections of credit sales of $36,000. One account for $650 was written off. The company decided to use the aging-of-receivables method to account for bad debts expense, and estimated $500 as uncollectible at year end. Therefore, the ending balance in the Allowance for Bad Debts would be:

The Allowance for Bad Debts account has a credit balance of $2,000. The company's management estimates that 2% of net credit sales will be uncollectible for the year 2015. Net credit sales for the year amounted to $250,000. What will be the amount of Bad Debts Expense reported on the income statement for 2015?

On December 1, 2015, Parsons Inc. sold machinery to a customer for $20,000. The customer could not pay at the time of sale, but agreed to pay 9 months later, and signed a 9-month note at 9% interest. How much interest revenue was earned during the year 2015?

Smart Art is a new establishment. During the first year, there were credit sales of $40,000 and collections of credit sales of $36,000. One account for $650 was written off. The company decided to use the aging method to account for bad debts expense. It has calculated an amount of $200 as their estimate of uncollectible amounts at year-end. Prepare the journal entry required to record Bad debts expense at the end of the year.

Which of the following statements is true of the direct write-off method?

Individual customer accounts of accounts receivable are known as subsidiary accounts.

Which of the following is included in the numerator of the acid-test ratio?

A debtor is a party to the transaction who will receive the cash for the transaction at a later date.

On December 1, 2015, Parsons Inc. sold machinery to a customer for $20,000. The customer could not pay at the time of sale, but agreed to pay 9 months later, and signed a 9-month note at 9% interest. How much interest revenue was earned during the year 2016?

Smart Art is a new establishment. During the first year, there were credit sales of $40,000 and collections of credit sales of $36,000. One account for $650 was written off. The company decided to use the percent-of-sales method to account for bad debts expense, and decided to use a factor of 2% for their year-end adjustment of bad debts expense. The ending balance in Allowance for Bad Debts account would be:

The two major types of receivables are interest receivable and taxes receivable.

While counting the date of maturity of a note, the date of issue of the note should be omitted.