Before Adjustment,the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Has a Credit Balance

question 18

Multiple Choice

Before adjustment,the allowance for doubtful accounts has a credit balance of $2,700.The company had $140,000 of net credit sales during the period and historically fails to collect 4% of credit sales.The company uses the percentage of credit sales method of estimating doubtful accounts.After adjusting for estimated bad debts,the new balance in the allowance for doubtful accounts account will be:

• A)$8,300.
• B)$5,400.
• C)$2,900.
• D)Cannot be determined from the information given.

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Definitions:

Covariance

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two variables change together; if the greater values of one variable mainly correspond with the greater values of the other variable, and the same holds for the lesser values, the covariance is positive.

Slope

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Coefficient of Correlation

A statistical measure that computes the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.

Direction

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