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Martin MFG company uses balance sheet approach to calculate allowance for doubtful accounts and bad debt expense. Current policy is to reserve 20% gross accounts receivable as an allowance for uncollectible accounts.
Martin MFG company issued 10% stated rate bonds in 2020. Effective market rate of interest for these bonds is 8%.
Select all statements that are true regarding the
information above. Ignore taxes and any cost of goods sold.
Reducing the percentage of gross accounts receivable reserved in the allowance for uncollectible accounts will increase net income
Increasing the percentage of gross accounts receivable reserved in the allowance for uncollectible accounts will increase net income
Reducing the amount of accounts receivable written off by $1,000 will increase net income
Increasing the amount of accounts receivable written off by $1,000 will increase net income
If given option to deliver inventory in either 2020 or 2021 waiting to deliver inventory to customers until 2021 will increase revenue in 2020
If given option to deliver inventory in either 2020 or 2021 delivering inventory to customers in 2020 will increase revenue in 2020
Using income statement approach to calculate bad debt expense will always result in lower bad debt expense versus the balance sheet approach
Using direct write off method to calculate bad debt expense will always result in lower bad debt expense versus the balance sheet approach
Increasing the stated rate of the bonds would have increased the price of the bonds at issuance
Increasing the market rate used to price the bonds would have increased the price of bonds at issuance
Present value of bonds issued is higher than face value
Present value of bonds issued is lower than face value
The following statements are considered to be true-
1. Reducing the percentage of gross accounts receivable reserved
in the allowance for uncollectible accounts will increase net
income.
Reason- Allowance is a contra asset account. Any decrease in
allowance would result in increase in net income.
3. Reducing the amount of accounts receivable written off by
$1,000 will increase net income
Reason- Write off would reduce the allowance balance. Reeducing
write off will increase allowance account and less bad debt expense
is required for adjusting entry.
6. If given option to deliver inventory in either 2020 or 2021
delivering inventory to customers in 2020 will increase revenue in
2020.
Reason- Delivey in 2020 means sale occuring in 2020. Hence, there
is increase in revenue in 2020
8. Using direct write off method to calculate bad debt expense
will always result in lower bad debt expense versus the balance
sheet approach
Reason- Direct method approach will be entered on actual bad debt
basis. So, there may be delay in recognizing actual bad debts.
9. Increasing the stated rate of the bonds would have increased
the price of the bonds at issuance.
Reason- The stated rate of bond is directly proportional to the
price of the bond.
11. Present value of bonds issued is higher than face
value
Reason- When market rate is lower than stated rate, the bond is
priced at premium.