Fundamentals Of Financial Accounting
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Chapter 8, Problem 1PA
Recording Accounts Receivable Transactions Using the Aging Method
The Kraft Heinz Company was formed in 2015 with the merger of Kraft Foods and H. J. Heinz Corporation. The company reported the following rounded amounts for the year ended January 3, 2016 (all amounts in millions):
Required:
- 1. Assume Kraft Heinz uses %2 of 1 percent of sales to estimate its
Bad Debt Expense for the year. Prepare theadjusting journal entry required for the year (rounded to the nearest million), assuming no Bad Debt Expense has been recorded yet. - 2. Assume instead Kraft Heinz uses the aging of accounts receivable method and estimates that $80 of its Accounts Receivable will be uncollectible. Prepare the adjusting journal entry required at January 3, 2016, for recording Bad Debt Expense.
- 3. Repeat requirement 2, except this time assume the unadjusted balance in Kraft Heinz’s Allowance for Doubtful Accounts at January 3, 2016, was a debit balance of $20.
- 4. If one of Kraft Heinz’s customers declared bankruptcy, what journal entry would be used to write off its $15 balance?
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