From the following particulars of Al Zahra LLC for the year 2019, a. Accounts receivable on 1st Jan 2019 RO 20000. b. During the year RO 18000 was collected from the Opening Accounts receivables and the remaining was treated as uncollectable. c. Sales during the year was RO 175000 d. Amount collected from current years sales was RO 150000 e. From the year 2019 Al Zahra LLC started to use Allowance Method for writing off the un collectables. f. Allowance to be created @ 10% on closing receivables Prepare a) Account of receivables and b) Allowance for Doubtful debts from the above information
Bad Debts
At the end of the accounting period, a financial statement is prepared by every company, then at that time while preparing the financial statement, the company determines among its total receivable amount how much portion of receivables is collected by the company during that accounting period.
Accounts Receivable
The word “account receivable” means the payment is yet to be made for the work that is already done. Generally, each and every business sells its goods and services either in cash or in credit. So, when the goods are sold on credit account receivable arise which means the company is going to get the payment from its customer to whom the goods are sold on credit. Usually, the credit period may be for a very short period of time and in some rare cases it takes a year.
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