Page 328 EXERCISE 7.9 Industry Characteristics and Collection Performance e LO7-8 The following information was taken from annual reports of Goodyear Tire & Rubber and PPL Corp.., a public utility: Goodyear PPL Net sales $18.1 billion $ 11.5 billion Average accounts receivable 2.3 billion 923 million a. Compute for each company the accounts receivable turnover rate for the year. b. Compute for each company the average number of days required to collect outstanding receivables (round answers to nearest whole day). c. Explain wyhy the figures computed for Goodvear in parts a and b are so different from those computed for PPI
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At the end of the accounting period, a financial statement is prepared by every company, then at that time while preparing the financial statement, the company determines among its total receivable amount how much portion of receivables is collected by the company during that accounting period.
Accounts Receivable
The word “account receivable” means the payment is yet to be made for the work that is already done. Generally, each and every business sells its goods and services either in cash or in credit. So, when the goods are sold on credit account receivable arise which means the company is going to get the payment from its customer to whom the goods are sold on credit. Usually, the credit period may be for a very short period of time and in some rare cases it takes a year.
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