Brubacher Service Company sells for cash and on account. Buy selling on account, Brubacher cannot expect to collect 100% of its accounts receivable The following transactions took place for the year ended December 31, 2020:
a. Issued invoices for service revenue on account totalling $670,000.
b. Received collections from customers (relating the invoices on account) totalling $630,000.
c. Wrote off specific customer accounts determined to be uncollectible totalling $30,000.
d. Recovered a customer account, that had previously been written off, $5,000.
e. Estimated bad debt expense for the year to be $33,500
f. On December 1, Brubacher received a 2 month, 7%, $4,000 note receivable from one of its customers in exchange for the customer’s past due account. Brubacher made the proper year-end adjusting entry for the interest on this note.
Required:
Prepare the journal entries to record the above transactions.
Journal entries
No | General Journal | Debit | Credit |
a | Account receivable | 670000 | |
Service revenue | 670000 | ||
b | Cash | 630000 | |
Account receivable | 630000 | ||
c | Allowance for doubtful accounts | 30000 | |
Account receivable | 30000 | ||
d | Account receivable | 5000 | |
Allowance for doubtful accounts | 5000 | ||
Cash | 5000 | ||
Account receivable | 5000 | ||
e | Bad debt expense (33500+25000) | 58500 | |
Allowance for doubtful accounts | 58500 | ||
f | Interest receivable (4000*7%*1/12) | 23.33 | |
Interest revenue | 23.33 | ||
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