Blossom Ltd has been in business for several years and has the following information for its operations which ended
December :
Total sales for the year were $ of which were on account.
The company estimates that total expected credit losses at December will be $
Blossom Ltd began the year with $ in accounts receivable and a normal credit to the allowance for
expected credit losses of $
Blossom Ltd writes off customer accounts that have been outstanding for more than days. During the
year, accounts with a carrying amount of $ reached the day mark and were written off.
The company uses a collection agency to try to collect accounts that have been written off. The collection
agency was able to collect $ from customers whose accounts had previously been written off.
During the year the company collected $ of its accounts receivable.
Prepare a summary journal entry for the credit sales and journal entries to record the above transactions on the
books of Blossom Ltd on December Credit account titles are automatically indented when
amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select No Entry" for the
account titles and enter for the amounts. List all debit entries before credit entries.
Account Titles and Explanation
Debit
Credit
To record credit sales
To recognize the credit losses
To write off accounts judged uncollectible
To reinstate an account that was previously
written offTo record subsequent collection of accounts
that were previously written off
To record collection of accounts receivable
Calculate the Dec. balances for Accounts receivable and the Allowance for Expected Credit Losses.
Accounts receivable
Allowance for expected credit losses
$
How would accounts receivable be presented on the statement of financial position at December and
BLOSSOM LTD
Statement of Financial Position Partial
$
$
Net Accounts Receivable