Financial Accounting
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Author: J. David Spiceland, Wayne M Thomas, Don Herrmann
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.5APE
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an Allowance for Doubtful Debts of $462 Cr. In the last two months
$4 800
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Bad Debts to be written off (Including GST)
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The bad debts listed above have not been written off as yet. Minnie has also calculated based on
past experience that 7% of net credit sales go bad. All sales are made on credit.
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1. account for the write off of the bad debt during the past two months
2. the adjusting entry on August 31 using the information Minnie has provided
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