Exercise 7-20

Presented below is information for Sweet Company.

1.		Beginning-of-the-year Accounts Receivable balance was $18,000.
2.		Net sales (all on account) for the year were $101,600. Sweet does not offer cash discounts.
3.		Collections on accounts receivable during the year were $81,100.

Prepare (summary) journal entries to record the items noted above. (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

No.	Account Titles and Explanation	Debit	Credit
1.
2.
3.

Compute Sweets accounts receivable turnover and days to collect receivables for the year. The company does not believe it will have any bad debts. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 4.57.)

Accounts receivable turnover			times
Days to collect accounts receivable			days

Use the results to analyze Sweet's liquidity. The turnover ratio last year was 6.5.

This is a

goodbad

trend in liquidity.