5. During its first year of operations, Sampson's Cosmetics International had sales of $3,250,000, wrote off $27,800 of accounts as uncollectible using the direct write-off method, and re-ported net income of $487,500. Determine what the net income would have been if the allowance method had been used and the company estimated that 1% of sales would be uncollectible.

5. During its first year of operations, Sampson's Cosmetics International had sales of $3,250,000, wrote off $27,800 of accounts as uncollectible using the direct write-off method, and re-ported net income of $487,500. Determine what the net income would have been if the allowance method had been used and the company estimated that 1% of sales would be uncollectible.

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Chapter16: Accounting For Accounts Receivable

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Problem 1CP: Martel Co. has 320,000 in Accounts Receivable on December 31, 20-1, the end of its first year of...

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