The company’s income statements for the years ended december 31, 2017 and 2016, follow. assume that all sales are on credit: for year ended december 31 2017 2016 sales $ 673,500 $ 532,000 cost of goods sold $ 411,225 $ 345,500 other operating expenses 209,550 134,980 interest expense 12,100 13,300 income taxes 9,525 8,845 total costs and expenses 642,400 502,625 net income $ 31,100 $ 29,375 earnings per share $ 1.90 $ 1.80compute days sales uncollecteddays' sales uncollectedchoose numerator: / choose denominator: x days = days' sales uncollectedaccounts receivableselected answer correct / net salesselected answer correct x 365selected answer correct = days' sales uncollected2017: $29,375selected answer incorrect / $100selected answer incorrect x 365 = 107,218.8 days2016: $62,400selected answer incorrect / $583,007selected answer incorrect x 365 = 39.1 daysdays' sales uncollectedchoose numerator: / choose denominator: x days = days' sales uncollected/ x = days' sales uncollected2017: / x = days2016: / x = days

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?