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Fundamentals of Financial Accounting 4th Edition by Fred Phillips,Robert Libby,Patricia Libby
Edition 4ISBN: 978-0078025372Fundamentals of Financial Accounting 4th Edition by Fred Phillips,Robert Libby,Patricia Libby
Edition 4ISBN: 978-0078025372 Exercise 73
Interpreting Disclosure of Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
Xerox Corporation is the company that made the photocopier popular, although it now describes itself as a technology and services enterprise that helps businesses deploy document management strategies and improve productivity. It recently disclosed the following information concerning the allowance for doubtful accounts on its Form 10-K annual report.
Required:
1. Create a T-account for the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and enter into it the 2008 amounts from the above schedule. Then, write the T-account in equation format to prove that the above items account for the changes in the account.
2. Record summary journal entries for 2008 related to ( i ) estimating bad debt expense and ( ii ) writing off specific balances.
3. Supply the missing dollar amounts for a and b.
4. If Xerox had written off an additional $20 of accounts receivable during 2010, how would it have affected Net Accounts Receivable How would the write-off have affected Net Income Explain.
Xerox Corporation is the company that made the photocopier popular, although it now describes itself as a technology and services enterprise that helps businesses deploy document management strategies and improve productivity. It recently disclosed the following information concerning the allowance for doubtful accounts on its Form 10-K annual report.
Required:
1. Create a T-account for the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and enter into it the 2008 amounts from the above schedule. Then, write the T-account in equation format to prove that the above items account for the changes in the account.
2. Record summary journal entries for 2008 related to ( i ) estimating bad debt expense and ( ii ) writing off specific balances.
3. Supply the missing dollar amounts for a and b.
4. If Xerox had written off an additional $20 of accounts receivable during 2010, how would it have affected Net Accounts Receivable How would the write-off have affected Net Income Explain.
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