Fundamentals Of Financial Accounting
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Author: PHILLIPS, Fred, Libby, Robert, Patricia A.
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Moose Corporation had a 1/1/15 balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts of P 12,000. During 2015, it wrote of P 8,640 of accounts and collected P 2,520 on accounts previously written off. The balance in Accounts Receivable was P 240,000 at 1/1 and P 288,000 at 12/31. At 12/31/15, Black estimates that 5% of accounts receivable will prove to be uncollectible.
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