The chief accountant for Dickinson Corporation provides you with the following list of accounts receivable written off in the current year.\nDate Custo
The chief accountant for Dickinson Corporation provides you with the following list of accounts receivable written off in the current year.
\r\nDate Customer Amount
\r\nMarch 31 E. L. Masters Company $7,800
\r\nJune 30 Stephen Crane Associates 6,700
\r\nSeptember 30 Amy Lowell’s Dress Shop 7,000
\r\nDecember 31 R. Frost, Inc. 9,830
\r\nDickinson Corporation follows the policy of debiting Bad Debt Expense as accounts are written off.
\r\nThe chief accountant maintains that this procedure is appropriate for financial statement purposes because the Internal Revenue Service will not accept other methods for recognizing bad debts.
\r\nAll of Dickinson Corporation’s sales are on a 30-day credit basis. Sales for the current year total $2,200,000, and research has determined that bad debt losses approximate 2% of sales.
\r\nInstructions
\r\n(a) Do you agree or disagree with Dickinson’s policy concerning recognition of bad debt expense? Why or why not?
\r\n(b) By what amount would net income differ if bad debt expense was computed using the percentageof- sales approach?