During 2020 a customer defaults on a $18,000 balance related to goods purchased during 2020. The corporation determines that this amount will not be recoverable and removes it from their records. Identify the accounts used in the journal entry to remove the amount from their records (noting above, that the corporation uses the allowance method to account for bad debts). V[ Select ] 18,000 Sales revenue Cash 18,000 Allowance for bad debts 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.
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