Question

On December 31, 2017, Extreme Fitness has adjusted balances of $960,000 in Accounts Receivable and $87,000 in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. On January 2, 2018, the company learns that certain customer accounts are not collectible, so management authorizes a write-off of these accounts totaling $26,000. What amount would the company report as its net accounts receivable on December 31, 2017? Prepare the journal entry to write off the accounts on January 2, 2018. Assuming no other transactions occurred between December 31, 2017, and January 3, 2018, what amount would the company report as its net accounts receivable on January 3, 2018? Has net accounts receivable changed from December 31, 2017?

Answer 1

Answer:

What amount would the company report as its net accounts receivable on December 31, 2017?

Accounts Receivable $873,000

Prepare the journal entry to write off the accounts on January 2, 2018.

Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts  $ 26,000  

Accounts Receivable   $ 26,000

Assuming no other transactions occurred between December 31, 2017, and January 3, 2018, what amount would the company report as its net accounts receivable on January 3, 2018?

The same amount reported on December 31, 2017, if the company doesn't report any movement with the credit debtor there is nothing to do.

Has net accounts receivable changed from December 31, 2017?

The net accounts are the same there is not change in the balance because the write-off it's just a reclassification between the accounts, so the balance keep the same as before.

Explanation:

Accounts Receivable $873,000

The company reports as net accounts receivable the total amount on Accounts Receivable minus the total amount on the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts  which represent the amount of credit that won't be possible to collect, the result it's the total value on net accounts receivable.  

Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts  $ 26,000  

Accounts Receivable   $ 26,000

As the company just recognized the accounts not collectible, at the moment of the write off it's just a reclasification between the accounts of Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts and Accounts Receivable.

At this moment it's a certainly that the accounts won't be collected, that is why the entry is recorded.