At the beginning of the current period, griffey corp. had balances in accounts receivable of $200,000 and in allowance for doubtful accounts of $9,000 (credit). during the period, it had net credit sales of $800,000 and collections of $763,000. it wrote off as uncollectible accounts receivable of $7,300. however, a $3,100 account previously written off as uncollectible was recovered before the end of the current period. uncollectible accounts are estimated to total $25,000 at the end of the period.
(a) prepare the entries to record sales and collections during the period.
(b) prepare the entry to record the write-off of uncollectible accounts during the period.
(c) prepare the entries to record the recovery of the uncollectible account during the period.
(d) prepare the entry to record bad debt expense for the period.

Afirm that makes electronic circuits has been ordering a certain raw material 250 ounces at a time. the firm estimates that carrying cost is i = 30% per year, and that ordering cost is about $20 per order. the current price of the ingredient is $200 per ounce. the assumptions of the basic eoq model are thought to apply. for what value of annual demand is their action optimal?

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience.type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.120.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

Margaret company reported the following information for the current year: net sales $3,000,000 purchases $1,957,000 beginning inventory $245,000 ending inventory $115,000 cost of goods sold 65% of sales industry averages available are: inventory turnover 5.29 gross profit percentage 28% how do the inventory turnover and gross profit percentage for margaret company compare to the industry averages for the same ratios? (round inventory turnover to two decimal places. round gross profit percentage to the nearest percent.)