Speedy swift is a package delivery service that serves the greater atlanta, georgia metropolitan area. to maintain customer loyalty, one of speedy swift’s performance objectives is on-time delivery. to monitor its performance, each delivery is measured on the following scale: early (package delivered before the promised time), on-time (package delivered within 5 minutes of the promised time), late (package delivered more than 5 minutes past the promised time), lost (package never delivered). speedy swift’s objective is to deliver 99 percent of all packages either early or on-time. another objective is to never lose a package. see worksheet 1 for data on speedy swift’s performance and answer the following questions: a. what scale is used to measure delivery performance? what kind of variable is delivery performance? b. construct a frequency table for delivery performance for last month. c. analyze the data summaries and write an evaluation of last month’s delivery performance as it relates to speedy swift’s performance objectives.

Swathmore clothing corporation grants its customers 30 days' credit. the company uses the allowance method for its uncollectible accounts receivable. during the year, a monthly bad debt accrual is made by multiplying 3% times the amount of credit sales for the month. at the fiscal year-end of december 31, an aging of accounts receivable schedule is prepared and the allowance for uncollectible accounts is adjusted accordingly. at the end of 2012, accounts receivable were dollar 586.000 and the allowance account had a credit balance of dollar 50,000. accounts receivable activity for 2013 was as follows: the company's controller prepared the following aging summary of year-end accounts receivable: prepare a summary journal entry to record the monthly bad debt accrual and the write-offs during the year. (if no entry is required for a particular event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.) prepare the necessary year-end adjusting entry for bad debt expense. (if no entry is required for an event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.) what is total bad debt expense for 2013? calculate the amount of accounts receivable that would appear in the 2013 balance sheet?