The current assets and current liabilities sections of the balance sheet of Allessandro Scarlatti Company appear as follows. ALLESSANDRO SCARLATTI COMPANY BALANCE SHEET (PARTIAL) DECEMBER 31, 2014 | Cash | | | | $ 48,750 | | Accounts payable | | nbsp; 66,060 | Accounts receivable | | $92,940 | | | | Notes payable | | 67,950 | Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts | | 7,640 | | 85,300 | | | | $134,010 | Inventory | | | | 175,140 | | | | | Prepaid expenses | | | | 9,220 | | | | | | | | | | $318,410 | | | | |
The following errors in the corporation’s accounting have been discovered:
1. | | January 2015 cash disbursements entered as of December 2014 included payments of accounts payable in the amount of $42,400, on which a cash discount of 2% was taken. | 2. | | The inventory included $30,300 of merchandise that had been received at December 31 but for which no purchase invoices had been received or entered. Of this amount, $12,700 had been received on consignment; the remainder was purchased f.o.b. destination, terms 2/10, n/30. | 3. | | Sales for the first four days in January 2015 in the amount of $30,680 were entered in the sales journal as of December 31, 2014. Of these, $23,260 were sales on account and the remainder were cash sales. | 4. | | Cash, not including cash sales, collected in January 2015 and entered as of December 31, 2014, totaled $37,422. Of this amount, $26,362 was received on account after cash discounts of 2% had been deducted; the remainder represented the proceeds of a bank loan. |
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