RJ commenced business on 1 January 2018. He sells refrigerators, all of one standard type, on hire
Question:
RJ commenced business on 1 January 2018. He sells refrigerators, all of one standard type, on hire purchase terms. The total amount, including interest, payable for each refrigerator is £300. Customers are required to pay an initial deposit of £60, followed by eight quarterly instalments of £30 each. The cost of each refrigerator to RJ is £200.
The following trial balance was extracted from RJ’s books as on 31 December 2018.
850 machines were sold on hire purchase terms during 2018.
The annual accounts are prepared on the basis of taking credit for profit (including interest) in proportion to the cash collected from customers.
You are required to prepare the hire purchase trading account and statement of profit or loss for the year 2018 and statement of financial position as on 31 December 2018. Ignore depreciation of non-current assets.
Show your calculations.
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Frank Woods Business Accounting Volume 2
ISBN: 9781292085050
13th Edition
Authors: Frank Wood, Alan Sangster