Gemstone Products located in New York City, is one of the world's largest producers of beauty and related products. The company's consolidated balance sheets for the 2016 and 2015 fiscal years included the following ($ in thousands): 2016 2015 Current assets: Receivables, less allowances of $131,410 in 2016 and $87,010 in 2015 $ 459,300 $ 440,200 A disclosure note accompanying the financial statements reported the following ($ in thousands) Year Ended 2016 2015 (In thousands) Calculation of account receivables, net: Receivables $ 590,710 $ 527,210 Less: allowance for doubtful accounts (122,930 ) (77,630 ) Less: reserve for product returns (8,480 ) (9,380 ) Trade accounts receivable, net: $ 459,300 $ 440,200 Assume that the company reported bad debt expense in 2016 of $191,200 and had products returned for credit totaling $187,030 (sales price). Net sales for 2016 were $5,588,800 ($ in thousands). Required: 1. What is the amount of accounts receivable due from customers at the end of 2016 and 2015

He aldermanalderman company has prepared a sales budget of 42 comma 00042,000 finished units for a 3-month period. the company has an inventory of 10 comma 00010,000 units of finished goods on hand at december 31 and has a target finished goods inventory of 11 comma 00011,000 units at the end of the succeeding quarter. it takes 44 gallons of direct materials to make one unit of finished product. the company has inventory of 64 comma 00064,000 gallons of direct materials at december 31 and has a target ending inventory of 53 comma 00053,000 gallons at the end of the succeeding quarter. how many gallons of direct materials should aldermanalderman company purchase during the 3 months ending march 31? select the labels and enter the amounts to calculate the direct materials (gallons) to be purchased.

The cutting department of cassel company has the following production and cost data for july. production costs 1. transferred out 12,300 units. beginning work in process $0 2. started 3,900 units that are 60% materials 62,856 complete as to conversion labor 12,622 costs and 100% complete as manufacturing overhead 23,100 to materials at july 31. materials are entered at the beginning of the process. conversion costs are incurred uniformly during the process. determine the equivalent units of production for (1) materials and (2) conversion costs. materials conversion costs total equivalent units of production link to text link to text compute unit costs. (round unit costs to 2 decimal places, e. g. 2.25.) materials $ conversion costs $ link to text link to text prepare a cost reconciliation schedule. (round unit costs to 2 decimal places, e. g. 2.25 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e. g. 1,225.) cost reconciliation costs accounted for transferred out $ work in process, july 31 materials $ conversion costs total costs $

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