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Aging of Receivables; Estimating Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
Trophy Fish Company supplies flies and fishing gear products to sporting goods stores and outfitters throughout the western United States. The accounts receivable clerk for Trophy
Fish prepared the following partially completed aging of receivables schedule as of the end of business on December 31, 20Y7:
Not
Days Past Due
Past
Customer
Balance
Due
1-30
31-60
61-90
91-120
Over 120
AAA Outfitters
19,900
19,900
Brown Trout Fly Shop
7,500
7,500
Zigs Fish Adventures
Subtotals
4,400
1,284,700
749,100
4,400
282,500
111,800
44,900
20,000
76,400
The following accounts were unintentionally omitted from the aging schedule:
Customer
Due Date
Balance
Adams Sports and Flies
May 22
$4,500
Blue Dun Flies
Oct. 10
5,300
Cicada Fish Co.
Sept. 29
8,500
Deschutes Sports
Oct. 20
7,400
Green River Sports
Nov. 7
3,200
Smith River Co.
Nov. 28
2,500
Western Trout Company
Dec. 7
7,000
Wolfe Sports
Jan. 20
4,300
Trophy Fish has a past history of uncollectible accounts by age category, as follows:
Age Class
Not past due
1-30 days past due
Percent
Uncollectible
1 %
2
Not past due
1-30 days past due
31-60 days past due
61-90 days past due
1 %
2
9
29
91-120 days past due
38
Over 120 days past due
79
Required:
1. Determine the number of days past due for each of the preceding accounts. If an account is not past due, enter a zero.
Customer
Due Date
Number of Days Past Due
Adams Sports and Flies
May 22
days
Blue Dun Flies
Oct. 10
days
Cicada Fish Co.
Sept. 29
days
Deschutes Sports
Oct. 20
days
Green River Sports
Nov. 7
days
Smith River Co.
Nov. 28
days
Western Trout Company
Dec. 7
days
Wolfe Sports
Jan. 20
days
2. Complete the aging of receivables schedule by adding the omitted accounts to the bottom of the schedule and updating the totals. If an amount box does not require an entry,
leave it blank.
Trophy Fish Company
Aging of Receivables Schedule
December 31, 2017
Customer
Balance
AAA Outfitters
19,900
Not Past Due
19,900
Days Past Due 1-30
Days Past Due 31-60
Days Past Due 61-90
Days Past Due 91-120
Days Past Due Over 120
Brown Trout Fly Shop
7,500
7,500
Zigs Fish Adventures
4400
4400
Subtotals
1,284,700 749,100
282,500
111,800
44,900
20,000
76,400
Adams Sports and Flies
Blue Dun Flies
Cicada Fish Co.
Deschutes Sports
Green River Sports
Smith River Co.
Western Trout Company
Wolfe Sports
Totals
Percent uncollectible (%)
Estimate of uncollectible accounts
%
3. Estimate the allowance for doubtful accounts, based on the aging of receivables schedule.
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4. Assume that the allowance for doubtful accounts for Trophy Fish has a credit balance of $3,600 before adjustment on December 31, 2017. Journalize the adjustment for
uncollectible accounts.
Dec. 31
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5. Assume that the adjusting entry in (4) was inadvertently omitted, how would the omission affect the balance sheet and income statement?
because the allowance for doubtful accounts would be understated
because bad debt expense would be understated
by $
On the balance sheet, assets would be overstated by $
the stockholders' equity (retained earnings) would be overstated
on the income statement.
by $
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by $
. In addition,
and net income overstated ✓
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