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A contra purchase account
Sales revenue minus sales return and allowances and sales discount equals?
purchases+purchases discounts+sales returns and allowances+frieght charges+ begining inventory
Sales returns and allowances reduces the actual sales value that;s why shown as deduction from Sales Revenue in Income Statement
As a debit to the accounts payable account and a credit to the purchases returns and allowances account
The amount sold after customers' returns, sales discounts, and other allowances are taken away from gross sales. (Companies usually just show the net salesamount on their income statements, omitting returns, allowances, and the like.) Net (sales) revenue = (beg+purchases) - end
A contra purchase account
Sales Returns and Allowances are contra revenue accounts because they reduce that total amount of sales. [Sales-Sales returns and allowances=Net sales]. They are reported on the income statement.
Sales revenue minus sales return and allowances and sales discount equals?
purchases+purchases discounts+sales returns and allowances+frieght charges+ begining inventory
Sales returns and allowances reduces the actual sales value that;s why shown as deduction from Sales Revenue in Income Statement
As a debit to the accounts payable account and a credit to the purchases returns and allowances account
To calculate the net delivered cost of purchase, one would add purchases and freight in and then deduct purchase returns & allowances and then deduct purchase discounts.
An income account. Debit Returns & Allowances, Credit Cash.
It would be closed to this summary. This is because they are considered a form of contra revenue accounts.
Debit: Sales Returns & Allowances Credit: Accounts Receivable :)
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