Question: What is the amount of bad debts expense in its December 31, 2022 Statement of Comprehensive income assuming the Dolor’s policy is to provide 5% of the outstanding balance of accounts receivable as uncollectible and beginning balance of allowance of P20,000?
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.
Question:
What is the amount of
![The details of the accounts receivable of Dolor Corporation as December 31, 2022 shows the
following:
Beginning balance
P3,450,000
2,800,000
Sales on account made to customers
Collection of accounts receivable during the year
4,200,000
90,000
Accounts written off as uncollectible
The following transactions were included in the recorded transactions during the year:
a. Invoice dated December 28, 2022 for P350,000 was shipped on December 31, 2022 terms FOB
destination. The goods were recorded as sale on account and was received by Customer Bin
on January 3, 2023.
b. Invoice dated and recorded on November 30, 2022 was erroneously priced at P32 per unit.
There were 11,000 units of goods delivered FOB destination which were received on December
10, 2021. The agreed price should be at P22 per unit only.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F46e99b88-4dd1-423a-9e53-c36c783df228%2Fc045efb5-9c87-4890-b566-34ea0c173f3c%2Fgqscwm_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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