Peru Industries began operations on January 1, 2020. The company plans to use the allowance method for
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Peru Industries began operations on January 1, 2020. The company plans to use the allowance method for uncollectible accounts. During the next two years, the company completed a number of transactions involving credit sales, accounts receivable collections, and bad debts (assume a perpetual inventory system). These transactions are summarized as follows:
2020
a. Sold merchandise on credit for $2,250,000, terms n/30 (COGS = $1,240,000).
b. Wrote off uncollectible accounts receivable in the amount of $34,000.
c. Received cash of $1,330,000 in payment of outstanding accounts receivable.
d. In adjusting the accounts on December 31, concluded that 1.5% of the outstanding accounts receivable would become uncollectible.
2021
e. Sold merchandise on credit for $2,940,000, terms n/30 (COGS = $1,592,000).
f. Wrote off uncollectible accounts receivable in the amount of $53,000.
g. Received cash of $2,210,000 in payment of outstanding accounts receivable.
h. In adjusting the accounts on December 31, concluded that 1.5% of the outstanding accounts receivable would become uncollectible.
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Prepare journal entries to record Peru’s 2020 and 2021 summarized transactions and the adjusting entries to record bad debt expense at the end of each year.
Accounts ReceivableAccounts 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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Fundamental Accounting Principles Volume I
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Authors: Kermit Larson, Tilly Jensen, Heidi Dieckmann