Intermediate Accounting 14th Edition

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Chapter 7 - Cash and Receivables - Concepts for Analysis - Page 419: CA7-3(1)

Answer

Allowances and charge-offs. Strategy (a) is recommended. On account of this organization which has an expansive number of moderately small transactions, it is practicable to give impact currently to the likelihood bad debt expense. At whatever point practicable, it is prudent to collect probable dab debt charges and apply them in the accounting time frames in which the related sales are credited. If the percentage is grounded on actual long-run experience, the stipend balance is normally enough to bring the records receivable to the balance sheet to realizable values. However, the strategy does not block an occasional audit of the records receivable to estimate possible losses in affiliation to the adjustment and allowance balance for an inadequate or excessive allowance.

Work Step by Step

As a result, strategy (b) is in fact not wrong, yet maybe could be utilized together with technique (a). Strategy (b) does not appear as suitable here in view of the probable substantial number of records involved and thusly a level of offers premise ought to give a superior "matching" of costs with incomes.
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