Allowance Method ada uses the allowance method. The balance of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts at December 1 was $950. The following transactions occurred: Dec 12 Jada determines that it cannot collect $1,500 of its accounts receivable from Lilo Company 27 Lilo unexpectedly pays $200 on its account. Jada records its recovery of this bad debt. nstructions: 1) Prepare journal entries for the above transactions under the applicable method. 2) Post the transactions above and determine the ending balance in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. 3) Assuming bad debts are expected to be 5% of accounts receivable, prepare the adjusting journal entry at December 31.
Bad Debts
At the end of the accounting period, a financial statement is prepared by every company, then at that time while preparing the financial statement, the company determines among its total receivable amount how much portion of receivables is collected by the company during that accounting period.
Accounts Receivable
The word “account receivable” means the payment is yet to be made for the work that is already done. Generally, each and every business sells its goods and services either in cash or in credit. So, when the goods are sold on credit account receivable arise which means the company is going to get the payment from its customer to whom the goods are sold on credit. Usually, the credit period may be for a very short period of time and in some rare cases it takes a year.
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