Canaday Ltd. has the following receivables balances ($M) Gross Accounts Receivable .....$175 Bad Debt Reserve..... (3) Net

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Canaday Ltd. has the following receivables balances ($M)

Gross Accounts Receivable .....$175

Bad Debt Reserve..... (3)

Net Accounts Receivable..... $172

Two years ago a customer was approved for an unusually large credit sale of $7M over the objections of the credit and collections department. Shortly after the sale the customer’s business began to deteriorate due to an unexpected recession. To date it has paid only $2M against the order despite the fact that it has consumed all of the material purchased. The collections department has worked diligently to collect the remaining $5M without success. The customer filed for bankruptcy this morning with essentially no assets to pay a large number of creditors. Evaluate the financial statement impact of the bankruptcy on Canaday. Assume Canaday’s product cost is 40% of revenue and the bad debt reserve of $3M will be fully reestablished.

Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...
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