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Company uses the allowance method to account for uncollectible accounts receivable.

<p><em><strong>After recording the estimate of uncollectible accounts expense for the current year, company decided to write off in the current year the $10,000 account of a customer who had filed for bankruptcy. What effect does this write-off have on the company’s current net income and total current assets, respectively?Net Income</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Net Income                      Total current assets</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>   a) Decrease                                      Decrease</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>   b) No effect                                      Decrease</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>    c) Decrease                                     No effect</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p><em><strong>    d) No effect                                      No effect</strong></em></p>

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Date Posted: 2014/10/11
James Perez, CPA, CMA Candidate
by James Perez, CPA, CMA Candidate , Assistant Manager-Financial Planning and Analysis , Tupperware Brands Philippines

d) No effect on net income and no effect on total current assets.

 

The entry should be:

Allowance for Bad Debts                        xxx

Accounts Receivable                                              xxxx

Umer Sharif
by Umer Sharif , Consultant Lead Financial, Functional, Implementation of Infor ERP Syteline ‚ Eccountant & SmartHCM. , Bin Rasheed Technology Pvt Ltd.

No Effect.....................................

Mark Angelo Damuag
by Mark Angelo Damuag , Financial Analyst , Evacare Management Consultancy Inc

The answer is  d) No effect  on Net Income and No effect on Current Assets.

Jonard Martija
by Jonard Martija , Business Support Manager , Emirates Flight Catering

(A) Since both provision for uncollectible accounts and write-off occured within the same year, net income and current assets will both decrease. Had the provision occured in previous period/s and the company write-off the doubtful accounts this period, then there will be No effect to net income and TCA, hence a bad debt expense was already recognized the moment the said receivable became doubtful of collection (prior year/s). Reducing receivable and allowance for uncollectible accounts (clean-up of accounts) by the same amount (writing off) does affect the TCA.

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