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Task 8.1
Irrecoverable debts and Allowances
Bad debts & Doubtful debts
Background
Businesses offer credit facilities to customers in order to encourage them to buy products and services. Goods or services sold on credit result in trade receivables being recorded in the statement of financial position of the seller’s books (with a corresponding trade payable in the buyer’s books).
The associated risks of offering credit facilities to customers are slow payment or even non-payment.
To minimise the risk of non-payment, the business should set credit limits for their customers and prepare an aged receivables analysis to identify debts at risk of going bad.
A trade receivable should only be classed as an asset if it is probable that it is recoverable (ie that the customer will pay the amounts due).
Definition of Debts
If a debt is definitely irrecoverable it should be written off to the statement of profit or loss as a bad debt. This is an example of prudence.
Accounting treatment Dr Bad debt expense (SPL) Cr Trade receivables (SOFP)
Lecture Example
Definition of Doubtful assets
If a debt is possibly irrecoverable an allowance for the potential irrecoverability of that debt should be made. A new account is created, Allowance for receivables, this account is offset against the trade receivables’ balance on the statement of financial position and the expense taken to the statement of profit or loss.
Accounting treatment
Dr Doubtful debts expense (SPL) Cr Allowance for receivables (SOFP
Lecture Example
A further review of Fight & Co's customer files indicates there is some uncertainty as to whether a debt of $3,500 owed by Bugner is recoverable.
a)Calculate the allowance for receivables shown on the statement of
financial position.
b)Calculate the doubtful debts expense shown in the statement of profit
or loss.
c)Show how the information from Lecture examples 1 and 2 would be
shown in extracts from the statement of profit or loss and statement of financial position.
Answer
Allowance for receivables:
a)The allowance for receivables shown on the statement of financial position is $3,500
b)The doubtful debts expense shown in the statement of profit or loss is $3,500
Answer
Statement of profit or loss extract
$ Expenses
Bad debts (see Lecture Example 1) (15,000) Doubtful debts expense (3,500) Statement of financial position extract
$ Current assets
Trade receivables 50,000
Less: allowance for receivables (3,500)
46,500
Types of Allowance
Specific: provided against a particular/named individual customer. General: percentage applied to total trade receivables after:
I.Writing off bad debts;
II.Deducting full balance of any customers for which specific allowance has been created.
Order of calculation
(a) Write up trade receivables and account for credit sales and cash received
in period.
(b) Write off bad debts
Dr Bad debt expense (SPL)
Cr Trade receivables (SOFP)
(c) Make any entries for specific allowances:
Dr Doubtful debts expense (SPL)
Cr Allowance for receivables (SOFP)
(d) In workings, calculate the general allowance on trade receivables (after
bad debts written off and excluding full amounts for which specific
allowance has been made).
Order of calculation
(e)
$ Total trade receivables 100 Less: specific allowances (20)
80 General allowance @ 5% = 4∴total allowance:
Specific 20 General 4
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Lecture Example
A business’s trade receivables account showed a year end balance of $47,440. It was decided that amounts totalling$340 should be written off as irrecoverable, a specific allowance was to be made against an amount of $400 due from Dodgy Co, a customer, and a general allowance of 2% was to be made against remaining debts.
Required
a)Calculate the allowance for receivables shown in the statement of
financial position.
b)Calculate the bad and doubtful debts expense shown in the statement of
profit or loss.
Answer
Answer
Balance off
Answer
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