
Question No 06 Chapter No 14
Provision for Doubtful debit and for a discount on Debtors
6. The following figure is given
| Rs | |
| Provision for doubtful debts on 1st April 2017 | 2,000 |
| Provision for discount on debtors on 1st April 2017 | 950 |
| Bad debts are written off during 2017-18 | 1,300 |
| Discount allowed during 2017-18 | 1,090 |
| Debtors as on 31st March 2018 | 30,000 |
The provision for debts is to be maintained at 5% of the debtors and the provision for discount on debts at 2%. Given journal entries and ledger accounts for the above.
| Dr. | Provision for Doubtful Debts A/c | Cr. | |||||
| Dat | Particulars |
J.F. | Amount | Date | Particulars |
J.F. | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31/03/18 | To Bad debts A/c | 1,300 | 01/04/17 | By Balance b/d | 2,000 | ||
| 31/03/18 | By Balance C/d (30,000 x5%) |
1500 | 31/03/18 | By Profit/Loss A/c | 800 | ||
| 2800 | 2,800 | ||||||
| Dr. | Provision for Doubtful Debts A/c | Cr. | |||||
| Dat | Particulars |
J.F. | Amount | Date | Particulars |
J.F. | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31/03/18 | To Bad debts A/c | 1,090 | 01/04/17 | By Balance b/d | 950 | ||
| 31/03/18 | By Balance C/d (28,500 x2%) |
570 |
31/03/18 | By Profit/Loss A/c | 710 | ||
| 1,660 | 1,660 | ||||||
Journal
| Date | Particulars |
L.F. | Debit | Credit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | |||||
| Mar. 31 | Provision for doubtful debts A/c | Dr. | 1,300 | ||
| To bad debts A/c | 1,300 | ||||
| (Being bad debts of the year charged to provision for doubtful debts account.) | |||||
| Mar. 31 | Provision for discount on debtors A/c | Dr. | 1,090 | ||
| To Discount allowed A/c | 1,090 | ||||
| (Being discount allowed during the year charged to provision for a discount account.) | |||||
| Mar. 31 | Profit/Loss A/c | Dr. | 1,510 | ||
| To Provision for doubtful debts A/c | 800 | ||||
| To Provision for discount on debtors A/c | 710 | ||||
| (Being the amount debited to profit and loss account for maintaining required balance in the provision account.) | |||||
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