At December 31, 2022, the records of Kingbird, Inc. contained the following amounts before adjustment. Accounts Receivable Allowance for Doubtful Accounts (a) What amount of bad debt expense will Kingbird, Inc. report if its aging schedule indicates that $12,240 of accounts receivable will be uncollectible. Bad debt expense $ $216,000 1,800 (b) During the next month, January 2023, a $2,520 account receivable is written off as uncollectible. What amount of bad debt expense will Kingbird, Inc. report in January 2023? Bad debt expense $ (c) Repeat part (b), assuming that Kingbird, Inc. uses the direct write-off method instead of the allowance method in accounting for uncollectible accounts receivable. Bad debt expense $
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.
![At December 31, 2022, the records of Kingbird, Inc. contained the following amounts before adjustment.
Accounts Receivable
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
(a) What amount of bad debt expense will Kingbird, Inc. report if its aging schedule indicates that $12,240 of accounts receivable
will be uncollectible.
Bad debt expense $
$216,000
1,800
(b) During the next month, January 2023, a $2,520 account receivable is written off as uncollectible. What amount of bad debt
expense will Kingbird, Inc. report in January 2023?
Bad debt expense $
(c) Repeat part (b), assuming that Kingbird, Inc. uses the direct write-off method instead of the allowance method in accounting
for uncollectible accounts receivable.
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