AP5-5 You have recently been hired as the assistant controller for Stanton Indus
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Question
AP5-5 You have recently been hired as the assistant controller for Stanton Industries. Your immediate superior is the controller who, in turn, reports to the vice president of finance. The controller has assigned you the task of preparing the year-end adjustments. For receivables, you have prepared an aging of accounts receivable and have applied historical percentages to the balances of each of the age categories. The analysis indicates that an appropriate balance for Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts is $180,000. The existing balance in the allowance account prior to any adjustment is a $20,000 credit balance. p. 258 After showing your analysis to the controller, he tells you to change the aging category of a large account from over 120 days to current status and to prepare a new invoice to the customer with a revised date that agrees with the new aging category. This will change the required allowance for uncollectible accounts from $180,000 to $135,000. Tactfully, you ask the controller for an explanation for the change and he tells you,
Explanation / Answer
1. if the above action is carried out, even though the profits would be superficially inflated this year,next year if the customer does not pay,the profits would nosedive. 2.The ethical issue in this case is a gross misrepresentation of facts which would mislead prospective investors.