The current assets and current liabilities sections of the


The current assets and current liabilities sections of the balance sheet of Swifty Company appear as follows.

SWIFTY COMPANY BALANCE SHEET (PARTIAL) DECEMBER 31, 2017

Cash


$50,000

Accounts payable

$  57,390

Accounts receivable

$92,000


Notes payable

71,770

    Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts

7,220

84,780


$129,160

Inventory


160,190



Prepaid expenses


8,170





$303,140



The following errors in the corporation's accounting have been discovered:

1. January 2018 cash disbursements entered as of December 2017 included payments of accounts payable in the amount of $42,300, on which a cash discount of 2% was taken.

2. The inventory included $28,040 of merchandise that had been received at December 31 but for which no purchase invoices had been received or entered. Of this amount, $12,070 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 2018 in the amount of $29,450 were entered in the sales journal as of December 31, 2017. Of these, $22,320 were sales on account and the remainder were cash sales.

4. Cash, not including cash sales, collected in January 2018 and entered as of December 31, 2017, totaled $36,794. Of this amount, $24,794 was received on account after cash discounts of 2% had been deducted; the remainder represented the proceeds of a bank loan.

Calculate the following adjusted balances.

Cash 

Accounts Receivable

Inventory

Accounts Payable

Notes Payable

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