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nivadabolster
May 22, 2016, 03:54 PM
Determine the balances of Accounts receivable and Bad debt expense at December 31, 2014.?




Update: Could use some help with this question!
information:
during 2014, patchwork had the following transactions:
1. on June 1 2014, sales of $80,000 to a major customer were settled, with patchwork accepting an $80,000 one year note bearing 7% interest payable at maturity. The $80,000 is not included in the total credit sales amount below.

2. patchwork factors some of its accounts receivable at the end of the year. Accounts totalling $60,000 are transferred to Primary factors inc with recourse. Primary factors retains 5% of the balances, and will receive the collections directly from patchwork's customers. Patchwork is assessed a finance charge of 6% on this transfer. The fair value of the recourse obligation is $7,000.

3. patchwork wrote off $3,200 of accounts receivable during 2014.


4. based on the latest available information, the 2014 allowance for doubtful accounts should have a balance of 12,000 at December 31 2014.

Additional info:
included in the cash balance at December 31 2014 are: chequing account balance of $9,600, postage stamps of $100, petty cash of $300, coins and currency on hand of $3000, and postdated cheques from customers of $2,000. Patchwork is a private company that follows ASPE.


Following account balances:
12/31/2013 12/31/2014
cash $20,000 $15,000
A/R 90,000 ?
A/4/D/A 8,500 ?
Inventory 85,000 80,000
Current Liab. 80,000 86,000
Total credit sales 600,000 550,000
Collections on A/R 440,000 500,000



Questions:
a. prepare journal entry for factoring of AR to primary factors inc. - I already did this.

b. determine balances of AR and bad debts expense at December 31 2014 - need help !

c. prepare current assets section of patchworks statement of financial position at December 31 2014 - need help!

smoothy
May 22, 2016, 04:44 PM
You did a wonderful job cutting and pasting your homework assignment and completely forgot to post your work and YOUR answers as required by the rules of this site.

paraclete
May 22, 2016, 09:40 PM
You know I often wonder what they are teaching these days. The essentials of an account balance are an opening balance, debit entries, credit entries and a closing balance. I don't understand why it is difficult to extract the entries and "post" them in an cccount to establish the balance