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Accounting Concepts and Bad Debts

This document contains Week 3 assignments for accounting student UU-ACG-1000-17357, including 4 exercises. Exercise 1 provides examples of accruals, prepayments, and journal entries. Exercise 2 demonstrates the straight-line and reducing balance depreciation methods. Exercise 3 discusses allowance for bad debts vs writing off bad debts. Exercise 4 requires classifying various expenses as capital or revenue expenditures.

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Accounting Concepts and Bad Debts

This document contains Week 3 assignments for accounting student UU-ACG-1000-17357, including 4 exercises. Exercise 1 provides examples of accruals, prepayments, and journal entries. Exercise 2 demonstrates the straight-line and reducing balance depreciation methods. Exercise 3 discusses allowance for bad debts vs writing off bad debts. Exercise 4 requires classifying various expenses as capital or revenue expenditures.

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Week 3 Assignments

R1811D6732779

Accounting 1

UU-ACG-1000-17357

Submitted to Alexandros Mavros

EXERCISE 1
a. Accruals are expenses incurred by a company on a statement which is yet to
be paid before a year end. For example, a company may pay for electricity
or water bills when they have already consumed most of the service.

b. Prepayments are expenses suffered by a company which are paid in


advance before the goods or service are procured. For example, employees
working for a company can request for an advance pay before the month end
or before they put in work.

c. Dr Electricity acc Cr Dr Water acc Cr

$ $
Cash 6500 Cash 1700
Cash 500 Bal C/D 7000 Cash 300 Bal C/D 2000
7000 7000 2000 2000
Dr Audit Fees Cr Dr Salaries acc Cr
$ $ $ $
Cash 5000 Bal C/D 5000 Cash 180, 000 Bal C/D 181, 500
5000 5000 Cash 1, 500 181, 500
181, 500

Dr Cash acc Cr
$ $
Electricity 7000 Profit and Loss Extract
Bal C/D 195, 000 Water 2000 Masha and The Bear Inc
Audit 5000
Salaries 181, 000 Less: Expenses $ $
195, 000 195, 000 Water 2000
Electricity 7000
Audit 5000
Salaries 181, 000 (195,000)

Balance Sheet Extract


Masha and the Bear inc
CREDITORS LIABILITIES $
Creditors 195, 000
EXERCISE 2

a. Straight line method


Cost - Residual Value
Useful Life

$310, 000 - $ 120, 000

1 year

= $190, 000

b. The Reducing balance method


All assets = $ 310, 000 + $ 79, 200

= $ 389, 200

Cost 389, 200


Depreciation of the year (25%) 79, 200

Balance at the end of the year 292, 200

EXERCISE 3

a. Making an Allowance for bad debt is also called the provision for doubtful debts
this shows the possibility of clients not paying what they owe, while Writing off a
bad debt is excluding a bad-debt as an asset from the account book. Allowance
for bad debt is treated and shown by balance of accounts after writing- off and
each debt is considered on its own. Write- Off is treated and shown in the debit-
bad debt expense and are recovered in the profit and loss account.

b.
Date Particulars Dr Cr
2017 Accounts Receivable $ $
Written Off 740,000 740, 000

c. Dr Accounts Receivable Cr Dr doubtful debts Cr


2017 $ 2017 $

Receivables 24, 000 Receivables 24, 000

d. Dr adjusting Entry Cr
2017 $ 31/ 12/ 2017 $
Allowance 70, 000 Bal C/D 80, 000

Added 10, 000

80, 000 80, 000


EXERCISE 4
A. Purchase of a motor car
-Capital expenditure
A company can use a motor car for a long period
B. Claim for a meal
-revenue
It is a small expense and can be used for a short period

C. Purchase of shares in a supplier


-revenue
The money that will be used to purchase the shares will increase the revenue of a
company
D. Purchase of a new computer
-Capital expenditure
A company will use it for a long period to increase productivity
E. Payment for hotel accommodation
-Revenue
It is considered a revenue because the accommodation will be used for a short period

F. Installation cost for server


-Capital expenditure
A cost will be included to the cost of the server

G. Purchase of raw materials


-Capital expenditure
It helps the company to increase the production

H. Repair of motor vehicles


-Revenue
It is a small cost, which a business have to pay on a short period

I. Purchase of new stationery


-Capital expenditure
These are assets used by a company for a long period
J. Payment of an insurance premium
-revenue expenditure
These are prepaid expenses which are paid by a company before they receive the services
and they
increases the revenues

K. Wages
-revenue expenditure
These are payments, which employers pay employees for the work done.
L. Purchase of a new plot of land.
-Capital expenditure
It is an asset, which the company will use for a long period

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