Question

During its first year of operations, mack's plumbing supply co. had sales of $630,000, wrote off $10,100 of accounts as uncollectible using the direct write-off method, and reported net income of $69,300. determine what the net income would have been if the allowance method had been used, and the company estimated that 1 3/4% of sales would be uncollectible.

Answer 1

The net income for Mack's Plumbing Supply Co. would have been $68,375 if it had used the allowance method, estimating 1.75% of sales as uncollectible instead of using the direct write-off method, which resulted in a reported net income of $69,300.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking how to calculate the net income for Mack's Plumbing Supply Co. if it had used the allowance method for accounting for uncollectible accounts rather than the direct write-off method. In the scenario provided, the company's sales were $630,000, and it wrote off $10,100 as uncollectible using the direct write-off method. The reported net income was $69,300. Under the allowance method, the company would estimate future uncollectible accounts as a percentage of sales, which is given as 1 3/4% or 1.75%.

To calculate the net income under the allowance method, first, we need to compute the estimated uncollectible amount: $630,000 × 0.0175 = $11,025. This amount would be recorded as a bad debt expense. The net income would then be adjusted as follows: Original net income of $69,300 minus the difference between the allowance method's expense and the direct write-off amount ($11,025 minus $10,100 = $925). So, the adjusted net income would be $69,300 minus $925, or $68,375.

Answer 2

The answer is 516,250 by first calculating expenses (6,500,000-40,000-expenses=590,000), net income = revenue-expenses.