The Guide Company requires additional cash for its business. Guide has decided to use its accounts receivable

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The Guide Company requires additional cash for its business. Guide has decided to use its accounts receivable to raise the additional cash as follows:

1. On June 30, 2007, Guide assigned $200,000 of accounts receivable to the Cell Finance Company. Guide received an advance from Cell of 85% of the assigned accounts receivable, less a commission on the advance of 3%. Prior to December 31, 2007, Guide collected $150,000 on the assigned accounts receivable and remitted $160,000 to Cell, $10,000 of which represented interest on the advance from Cell.

2. On December 1, 2007, Guide sold $300,000 of net accounts receivable to the Factoring Company for $260,000. The receivables were sold outright on a nonrecourse basis.

3. On December 29, 2007, Guide received an advance of $100,000 from the Domestic Bank by pledging $120,000 of Guide’s accounts receivable. Guide’s first payment to Domestic is due on January 29, 2008.


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Prepare a schedule showing the income statement effect for the year ended December 31, 2007, as a result of the preceding facts. Show supporting computations in good form.


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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Intermediate Accounting

ISBN: 978-0324300987

10th Edition

Authors: Loren A Nikolai, D. Bazley and Jefferson P. Jones

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