Mulberry Services sells electronic data processing services to firms too small to own their own computing equipment.

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Mulberry Services sells electronic data processing services to firms too small to own their own computing equipment. Mulberry had the following accounts and account balances as of January 1, 2019:

Accounts Payable .......................................$ 14,000

Accounts Receivable ....................................130,000

Cash ..........................................................6,000

Common Stock ...........................................114,000

Interest Payable ..............................................8,000

Notes Payable (Long-term) ............................. 80,000

Prepaid Rent (Short-term) ...............................96,000

Retained Earnings, 12/31/2018 .........................16,000

During 2019, the following transactions occurred (the events described below are aggregations of many individual events):

a. During 2019, Mulberry sold $690,000 of computing services, all on credit.

b. Mulberry collected $570,000 from the credit sales in Transaction a and an additional $129,000 from the accounts receivable outstanding at the beginning of the year.

c. Mulberry paid the interest payable of $8,000.

d. Wages of $379,000 were paid in cash.

e. Repairs and maintenance of $9,000 were incurred and paid.

f. The prepaid rent at the beginning of the year was used in 2019. In addition, $28,000 of computer rental costs were incurred and paid. There is no prepaid rent or rent payable at year-end.

g. Mulberry purchased computer paper for $13,000 cash in late December. None of the paper was used by year-end.

h. Advertising expense of $26,000 was incurred and paid.

i. Income tax of $10,300 was incurred and paid in 2019.

j. Interest of $5,000 was paid on the long-term loan.

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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