At the end of 2024, Garcia Company’s balance for Accounts Receivable is $11,000, while the company’s total assets equal $1,410,000. In addition, the company expects to collect all of its receivables in 2025. In 2025, however, one customer owing $2,600 becomes a bad debt on March 14. Record the write off of this customer’s account in 2025 using the direct write-off method. (If no entry is required for a particular transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the firs
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 the end of 2024, Garcia Company’s balance for
Record the write off of this customer’s account in 2025 using the direct write-off method. (If no entry is required for a particular transaction/event, select "No
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