Managing Accounts Receivable, An Essential Part Of Business Activities

The company have generated very low operating cash flows, which is caused by a negative net income(16, 55) in 94,95, again with sales going down and cost of goods sold increasing. The company current ratio (2.3, 2.1, 2.5) in 93, 94, 95 are indicating satisfactory but when analyze quick ratio (1.1, 1.1, 1.3), and we also know that sales are down which mean more inventories. Now the account payable days has been increasing (49, 62, and 66). They have been delaying there payment which mean more cash on

In business affairs, in a nation’s economy, and in the international scene, money has made its permanent imprint thus credit has been clearly indicated and pertinently stressed. Credit’s advent has brought about numerous benefits to its users and misfortunes to others who get caught in the web of its unwise use. According to Fajardo (2011), credit is the ability to acquire something of value, such as goods, services, securities or money. Moreover, he added that credit transaction usually involves either to pay a definite sum of money. Whenever credit is mentioned, risk on the creditor’s part becomes apparent, thus businesses find best credit risk management.

Although the company seems to be profitable, it has faced shortage of cash. It happened due to increase in Accounts Receivable as well as Inventories. On the other hand, Accounts Payable does not increase that rapidly and difficulties regarding cash collection become evident. Furthermore, the cash collection cycle becomes larger (59 days in year 2003, while more than 70 in year 2006).

In order to confirm the accounts receivable balances, I decided to use positive confirmations since this was my first time auditing the company and the collateral for the loan would be the receivables. The confirmations helped to verify the accuracy and existence of the accounts. I also calculated the Receivables Turnover Ratio in order to better evaluate the overall success of collection on accounts. The sample size that I chose was determined by the factors of tolerable misstatement, inherent risk, control risk, achieved detection risk

Bug-Off Exterminators provides pest control services and sells extermination products manufactured by other companies. The following six-column table contains the company's unadjusted trial balance as of December 31, 2011.

Question 3: Describe and show the journal entries illustrating how the company accounts for the transfer of its accounts receivable to financial institutions. Is this accounting treatment reasonable? What are the key assumptions made under this approach? Do you agree with these assumptions?

Accounts receivable are amounts owed by customers on account. They result from the sale of goods and services on credit. These receivables are generally expected to be collected within 30 to 60 days. They are typically the most significant type of claim held by a company. Accounts receivable and notes receivable resulting from sales are also known as trade receivables. Accounts receivable resulting from sales are referred to as trade receivables in Alcatel's financial statements.

When dealing with accounts payable and receivable it is very important that the athletic department take care of both in a timely manner. Accounts receivable is money that is coming into the college for tickets, camps, or apparel; while accounts payable is the money that is paid to vendors for these and other services (NA, What is the difference between accounts payable and accounts receivable?, 2016). Apollo Creed, the associate athletic director at UNL, has trouble staying on top of both these areas and it has caused late payments that have cause the vendors to be upset because they do not get paid on time. Mr. Creed must develop a policy that the staff members of the athletic department must follow in

The interview with Colin Smith, from Office Products Depot, meant I was able to identify the accounts receivable subsystem they used and their accounts receivable management. I focussed on their policies for the offering and checking of credit, managing credit levels, charging the credit customers, receiving payment from credit customers and the general management of credit customers. I will be using the information from the interview with Colin as well as information from fictitious accounts receivable to explain their policies.

To find who is bearing the risks of receivables ownership, an analyst should carefully examine the details of the securitization or factoring transactions. Moreover, if the transactions are considered borrowed where the lender does not directly bear the risk of owning the receivable/security, then the ownership risks should be retained by the company. Essentially, companies who are facing different economic realities may choose similar accounting treatment being that it will satisfy the requirement under GAAP

The National Association of Credit Management (NACM) is an organization that provides business Credit services. “As the advocate for business credit and financial management professionals NACM and its network of Partners take great pride in being the primary learning, knowledge, networking and information resource for commercial creditors nationwide” (NACM, 2015). The parts of The National Association of Credit Management that we will explore include the goals of the organization, its history, the four departments of member benefits, and signs of Fraud. As a non-profit organization the NACM has placed a level of quality for the credit professionals in credit and finance branches of business

Tighten up collection of receivables so that receivables account for less than 19% of Sales (1985). Pursue more aggressive strategy of collections;

Account receivables accounts for purchases which consumers have not yet aid for. This takes cares of any losses that the firm might incur due to allowing credit to certain clients. Bad debts are recorded in the income statement and they represent the des which the company doesn’t expect to be paid back. The account

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In order to test his hypothesis, the author followed the Dechow and Dichev (2002), which examines the standard deviations of residuals from a regression of accounts receivable accruals on corresponding cash flow realizations. The model uses information related to accounts receivable, sales cash collected during the periods, and errors in accounts receivable accruals (sresid). The author