A note disclosed that the allowance for uncollectible accounts had a balance of $35 million and $59 million at the end of 2017 and 2016, respectively. Bad debt expense for 2017 was $56 million. Assume that all sales are made on a credit basis. Required: 1. What is the amount of gross (total) accounts receivable due from customers at the end of 2017 and 2016

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)