Question

On December 31, 2017, Extreme Fitness has adjusted balances of $980,000 in Accounts Receivable and $91,000 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 $28,000. What amount would the company report as its net accounts receivable on December 31, 2017

Answer 1

Answer:

Account receivable = $889,000

Explanation:

The company would record as net receivables, the total amount on accounts receivable less total amount on the allowance for uncollectible account.

The above means that the balance would represent the amount of credit that has gone bad hence the value represent balance on net receivable account.

Therefore,

Accounts receivable

= Adjusted balance in accounts receivable - Allowance for doubtful account

= $980,000 - $91,000

= $889,000