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RECEIVABLES
1. Iron Company made the following transactions during the year of 2018.
June 6 Received payment in full from Wizard Company for balance due on
existing accounts receivable
June 9 Made visa credit card sales (service charge fee 4%) totaling
Rp5,800,000
July 31 Credit sales recorded during the first seven months total of
Rp18,000,000. The bad debt percentage is 2% of credit sales.
(estimation of bad debt using percentage-of-sales)
August 3 One of the accounts receivable written of in July was from S. Rogers,
who pays the amount due of Rp2,400,000 in full.
2. Vengers Company has accounts receivable of Rp35,000,000 on March 31. Credit terms
are 2/10, n/30. At March 31, Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a credit balance of
Rp770,000 prior to adjustment. The company uses percentage-of-receivables basis for
estimating uncollectible accounts. The company’s estimate of bad debts is shown below.
Rp35,000,000
Instructions:
a. Determine the total estimated uncollectibles.
b. Prepare the adjusting entry at March 31 to bad debt expense.
c. Post the adjusting entry for bad debts on March 31.