Fundamentals Of Financial Accounting
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Author: PHILLIPS, Fred, Libby, Robert, Patricia A.
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Chapter 8, Problem 9E
Recording and Determining the Effects of Write-Off s. Recoveries, and Bad Debt Expense Estimates on the Balance Sheet and Income Statement
Fraud Investigators Inc. operates a fraud detection service.
Required:
- 1. Prepare
journal entries for each transaction below.- a. On March 31, 10 customers were billed for detection services totaling $25,000.
- b. On October 31, a customer balance of $1,500 from a prior year was determined to be uncollectible and was written off.
- c. On December 15, a customer paid an old balance of $900, which had been written off in a prior year.
- d. On December 31, $500 of
bad debts were estimated and recorded for the year.
- 2. Complete the following table, indicating the amount and effect (+ for increase, − for decrease, and NE for no effect) of each transaction.
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Fraud Investigators Incorporated operates a fraud detection service.
a. On March 31, 10 customers were billed for detection services totaling $24,000.
b. On October 31, a customer balance of $1,450 from a prior year was determined to be uncollectible and was written off.
c. On December 15, a customer paid an old balance of $790, which had been written off in a prior year.
d. On December 31, $490 of bad debts were estimated and recorded for the year.
2. Complete the following table, indicating the amount and effect (+ for increase,- for decrease, and NE for no effect) of each
transaction. Ignore income taxes.
Transaction Net Receivables Net Sales
a.
b.
C.
d.
Income From
Operations
prepare journal entries for this
The following errors were found when the controller at Crane Hotel was doing the March 31 bank reconciliation.
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On March 5, Crane recorded a payment of an account payable as $2,710. The correct amount was $1,270. It was correctly
recorded by the bank.
On March 19, Crane recorded a deposit as $2,820. The correct amount was $4,280. The deposit was for the collection of an
account receivable and the bank recorded it correctly.
On March 31, the bank recorded a deposit as $5,610. The correct amount was $2,650. This error was corrected by the bank
on April 1. Crane had correctly recorded the deposit.
For each of these errors indicate if and how it would be shown on the bank reconciliation.
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2.
3.
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CAATs Application—Receivables Confirmation. You are using computer audit software to prepare accounts receivable confirmations during the annual audit of the Eastern Sunrise Services Club. The company has the following data files:Master file—debtor credit record.Master file—debtor name and address.Master file—account detail:Ledger number.Sales code.Customer account number.Date of last billing.Balance (gross).Discount available to customer (memo account only).Date of last purchase.The discount field represents the amount of discount available to the customer if the customer pays within 30 days of the invoicing date. The discount field is cleared for expired amounts during the daily updating. You have determined that this is properly executed.Required:From the data files shown, list the information that you would include on the confirmation requests. Identify the file from which the information can be obtained.
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