Looks Good Wigs Company supplies wigs and hair care products to beauty salons throughout California and the

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Looks Good Wigs Company supplies wigs and hair care products to beauty salons throughout California and the Pacific Northwest. The accounts receivable clerk for Looks Good prepared the following partially completed aging-of-receivables schedule as of the end of business on December 31, 2007:

Looks Good Wigs Company supplies wigs and hair care products

The following accounts were unintentionally omitted from the aging schedule:

Looks Good Wigs Company supplies wigs and hair care products

Looks Good Wigs has a past history of uncollectible accounts by age category, as follows:
Percent
Age Class Uncollectible
Not past due ......... 2%
1€“30 days past due ....... 4
31€“60 days past due ...... 10
61€“90 days past due ...... 15
91€“120 days past due ....... 35
Over 120 days past due ..... 80

Instructions
1. Determine the number of days past due for each of the preceding accounts.
2. Complete the aging-of-receivables schedule.
3. Estimate the allowance for doubtful accounts, based on the aging-of-receivables schedule.
4. Assume that the allowance for doubtful accounts for Looks Good Wigs has a credit balance of $9,550 before adjustment on December 31, 2007. Journalize the adjustment for uncollectibleaccounts.

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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ISBN: 978-0324401844

22nd Edition

Authors: Carl S. Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan E. Duchac

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