Question

(The following information applies to the questions displayed below The following data were selected from the records of Sykes Company for the year ended December 31 2014. Balances January 1, 2014 Accounts receivable (various customers) Allowance for doubtful accounts $ 116,000 7,000 In the following order, except for cash sales, the company sold merchandise and made collections on credit terms 4/10, n/30 (assume a unit sales price of $800 in all transactions and use the gross method to record sales revenue). Transactions during 2014 a. Sold merchandise for cash, $242,000. b. Sold merchandise to R. Smith; invoice price, $10,000. c. Sold merchandise to K. Miller, invoice price. $28,000. d. Two days after purchase date, R. Smith returned one of the units purchased in (b) and received account credit. e. Sold merchandise to B. Sears, invoice price, $24,000. f. R. Smith paid his account in full within the discount period. g. Collected $89,000 cash from customer sales on credit in prior year, all within the discount periods. h. K. Miller paid the invoice in within the discount period. 1. Sold merchandise to R. Roy, invoice price, $20.500. Three days after paying the account in full, K. Miller returned seven defective units and received a cash refund. k. After the discount period, collected $7,000 cash on an account receivable on sales in a prior year. 1. Wrote off a 2013 account of $3,000 after deciding that the amount would never be collected m. The estimated bad debt rate used by the company was 10 percent of credit sales net of returns

Answer 1

Transaction	Sales Revenue	Sales Discounts (taken)	Sales Returns and Allowances	Bad Debt Expense
a.	$242,000
b.	$10,000
c.	$28,000
d.			$800
e.	$24,000
f.		$368
g.		$3,708
h.		$1,120
i.	$20,500
j.		$224	$5,600
k.
l.
m.				$761
Total
Working
m.
Credit sales			$82,500
($10,000 + $28,000 + $24,000 + $20,500)
Less: Sales returns			$6,400
($800 + $5,600)
Net sales revenue			$76,100
Estimated bad debt rate × 1.0 %			$761