At year-end (December 31). The Company estimates its bad debts as 0.60% of its annual credit sales of $997.000. The Company records its Bad Debts Expense for that estimate. On the following February 1. The Company decides that the $499 account of P. Park is uncollectible and writes it off as a bad debt. On June 5, Park unexpectedly pays the amount previously written off. Prepare The Company's journal entries for the transactions. View transaction list Journal entry worksheet 2 3 4 > Record the estimated bad debts expense. Note: Enter debits before credits. Date General Journal Debit Credit Dec 31 Record entry Clear entry View general journal
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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The following information is available to reconcile The Company's book balance of cash with its bank statement cash
balance as of July 31.
a. On July 31, the company's Cash account has a $25,692 debit balance, but its July bank statement shows a $27,181 cash
balance.
b. Check No. 3031 for $1.160, Check No. 3065 for $356, and Check No. 3069 for $1,928 are outstanding checks as of July
31.
c. Check No. 3056 for July rent expense was correctly written and drawn for $1,240 but was erroneously entered in the
accounting records as $1.230.
d. The July bank statement shows the bank collected $5,500 cash on a note for Company. The Company had not
recorded this event before receiving the statement.
e. The bank statement shows an $805 NSF check. The check had been received from a customer, Ellie Lemmond. The
Company has not yet recorded this check as NSF.
1. The July statement shows a $8 bank service charge. It has not yet been recorded in miscellaneous expenses because
no previous notification had been received.
g. The Company's July 31 daily cash receipts of $6.632 were placed in the bank's night depository on that date but do not
appear on the July 31 bank statement.
Required:
1. Prepare the bank reconciliation for this company as of July 31.
BRANCH COMPANY
Bank Reconciliation
July 31
Bank statement balance
Book balance
Add:
Add:
Deduct:
Deduct:
Adjusted bank balance
Adjusted book balance](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Ffe46867b-8e32-4051-86e0-c12e0211534e%2Ffb38700c-ceb4-4b42-b2f0-910ddcb24d1e%2Fk1c4dmq_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)

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