Accounts Receivable Flashcards

Below are some accounts receivable flashcards. If you are in the accounting profession, you know that accounts receivables are all the payments that a business is waiting for from its debtors at a particular accounting period. The flashcards will help you review what you know about some of the terms associated with these accounts. Be sure to read each for as long as you may need.

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Trade discount is a reduction from the list price which is used to?
Give quantity discounts to customers disguise real prices from competitors Change prices without published a new catalog
Loans by a company to other entities and interest due from loans to customers are known as?
Receivables
Average collection period is calculated by what equation?
365/ receivable turnover ratio
Trade Receivable
The legal right to receive cash from a credit sale and represents a asset to a company
Interest on a note calculation?
Face amount x annual rate x fraction of annual period
Receivables turnover formula?
Net credit sales / average accounts receivables
Joyce determines that a customer who owes 20000 should be written off as noncollectable. The write off would create a journal entry like?
Debit allowance for uncollected accounts
Credit to accounts receivable
Sales discount is
A reduction in the sales price if paid within a certain number of days
Net Revenue is calculated as?
Sales - discounts- returns - allowances
Net Realizable Value Equation =
Gross account receivable - allowance for doubtful account
Account receivable are classified as current assets because?
They will be converted to cash with 1 year or the normal operating cycle
When a customer makes a return what would the journal entry look like?
Debit to Sales returns Credit to accounts receivable
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