Financial and Managerial Accounting (Looseleaf) (Custom Package)
Financial and Managerial Accounting (Looseleaf) (Custom Package)
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Author: Wild
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Journal entry:

It refers to the process of recording the data into books of accounts on continuous basis. It is a process of record keeping for every transaction by a company or a firm.

Rules of journal entry:

  • Assets: Increase in asset should be debit and decrease should be credit.
  • Liabilities: Increase in liabilities should be credit and decrease should be debit.
  • Equity: Increase in Equity should be credit and decrease should be debit.
  • Expense: Increase in expense should be debit and decrease should be credit.
  • Revenue: Increase in revenue should be credit and decrease should be debit.

Percentage of Sales Method:

It refers to a method of calculating bad debt expense by a company on the basis of a percentage over net credit sales. This method defines the amount of bad debts as a percentage of net credit sales.

To prepare: Adjustment entry to record the given transaction for uncollectible.

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