• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Free ACCA & CIMA online courses from OpenTuition

Free ACCA & CIMA online courses from OpenTuition

Free Notes, Lectures, Tests and Forums for ACCA and CIMA exams

  • ACCA
  • CIMA
  • FIA
  • OBU
  • Books
  • Forums
  • Ask AI
  • Search
  • Register
  • Login
  • ACCA Forums
  • Ask ACCA Tutor
  • CIMA Forums
  • Ask CIMA Tutor
  • FIA
  • OBU
  • Buy/Sell Books
  • All Forums
  • Latest Topics

20% off ACCA & CIMA Books

OpenTuition recommends the new interactive BPP books for September 2025 exams.
Get your discount code >>

Irrevocable debts

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA FA – FIA FFA › Irrevocable debts

  • This topic has 11 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 9 years ago by John Moffat.
Viewing 12 posts - 1 through 12 (of 12 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • March 15, 2016 at 7:02 pm #306524
    harry1094
    Participant
    • Topics: 29
    • Replies: 46
    • ☆☆

    Question:
    “Panther owns her own business selling Gladiator dolls to department stores. At 30 June 20X2 she had the following balances in her books:

    Trade receivables $31,450
    Allowance for receivables (General) (as at 1 July 20X1) $(450)

    A balance of $1,000 due from Selfrodges Co is considered irrecoverable and is to be written off. Horrids Co was in financial difficulty and Panther wished to allow for 60% of their balance of $800. She also decided to make a general allowance of 10% on her remaining trade receivables. What was the allowance for receivables in her statement of financial position at 30 June 20X2?”

    Answers of the book:
    “General allowance =10%*((Trade receivables – irrevocable debts) – Horrids) = 10%*((31.45 – 1) – 0.8) = 2.965
    Specific allowance = 0.8 * 60% = 0.48
    Total allowance = 3.445”

    I don’t know why they could calculate the “general allowance” by the formular above, and this is my answer:
    “General allowance = 10%*((Trade receivables – irrevocable debts) – specific allowance of Horrids) = 10%*((31.45 – 1) – 0.8 * 60%) = 2.997
    Specific allowance = 0.8 * 60% = 0.48
    Total allowance = 3.477”

    Please tell me why BPP Revision kit used this method to find out the answer, thank you so much.

    March 16, 2016 at 6:35 am #306557
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54699
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    If they are allowing for 60% of Horrid’s debt, then presumably they think that the other 40% is no problem, therefore they will not want 10% of that as well – it would be allowing for it twice 🙂

    (By the way, the word is ‘irrecoverable’ not ‘irrevocable’ 🙂 )

    March 16, 2016 at 11:42 am #306645
    harry1094
    Participant
    • Topics: 29
    • Replies: 46
    • ☆☆

    Thank you, I got it. The key point here is to avoid double record.

    March 16, 2016 at 12:34 pm #306656
    augustinenyoni
    Participant
    • Topics: 0
    • Replies: 3
    • ☆

    Irrecoverable Debts

    May you please clarify for me why answer to Test question # 2 is $139.2 instead of $98.40

    March 16, 2016 at 12:36 pm #306657
    harry1094
    Participant
    • Topics: 29
    • Replies: 46
    • ☆☆

    May I help you, I dont understand your question

    March 16, 2016 at 12:45 pm #306659
    augustinenyoni
    Participant
    • Topics: 0
    • Replies: 3
    • ☆

    at 31 Dec 2005 the ledger of X Co. included a $5.376 allowance for receivables. During the year ended 31 Dec 2006 irrecoverable debts of $2040 were written off . Receivables balance at 31 Dec 2006 totaled $173760 and the company wished to carry forward a general allowance of 2%.
    The total charge for irrecoverable debts and change in allowance for receivables in the 2006 statement of Profit or Loss is

    A $98.4
    B $139.2
    C $3.904.8
    D $5.515.2

    March 16, 2016 at 1:02 pm #306662
    harry1094
    Participant
    • Topics: 29
    • Replies: 46
    • ☆☆

    For your question,
    Total charge to P&L = 2040 + (173760 * 0.02 – 5376) = $139.2

    Because:
    Allowance for receivable for the year X6 = 173760 * 0.02
    The receivables balance at 31 Dec 2006 is “Net receivables after deducting irrecoverable debts occurred during the fiscal year”

    March 16, 2016 at 3:04 pm #306678
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54699
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    harry1094 is correct (but please don’t answer questions in this forum because it is Ask the Tutor (although do help people in the other forum 🙂 )

    March 16, 2016 at 3:17 pm #306681
    harry1094
    Participant
    • Topics: 29
    • Replies: 46
    • ☆☆

    Yep, I got it, I dont make a same mistake again in the future 😉

    March 16, 2016 at 3:20 pm #306683
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54699
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    No problem 🙂

    March 17, 2016 at 5:37 am #306723
    augustinenyoni
    Participant
    • Topics: 0
    • Replies: 3
    • ☆

    THANKS VERY MUCH

    March 17, 2016 at 6:44 am #306750
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54699
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    You are welcome 🙂

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 12 posts - 1 through 12 (of 12 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Log In

Primary Sidebar

Donate
If you have benefited from our materials, please donate

ACCA News:

ACCA My Exam Performance for non-variant

Applied Skills exams is available NOW

ACCA Options:  “Read the Mind of the Marker” articles

Subscribe to ACCA’s Student Accountant Direct

ACCA CBE 2025 Exams

How was your exam, and what was the exam result?

BT CBE exam was.. | MA CBE exam was..
FA CBE exam was.. | LW CBE exam was..

Donate

If you have benefited from OpenTuition please donate.

PQ Magazine

Latest Comments

  • mrjonbain on ACCA BT Chapter 6 – Some legal obligations – Questions
  • Ken Garrett on ACCA BT Chapter 6 – Some legal obligations – Questions
  • Ken Garrett on The nature and structure of organisations – ACCA Paper BT
  • OmarAlbeity on ACCA BT Chapter 6 – Some legal obligations – Questions
  • Salimbek909 on The nature and structure of organisations – ACCA Paper BT

Copyright © 2025 · Support · Contact · Advertising · OpenLicense · About · Sitemap · Comments · Log in