Required: A. Prepare all necessary journal entries for ABC. B. Prepare the entry to record bad debt expense assuming that in transaction #4, $4,000 of A/R had been written off instead of $1,500.
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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![ABC Corporations has the following transactions and account balances during the year:
A/R beginning balance = $45,000
Allowance for doubtful accounts beginning balance = $2,250
1. ABC made sales on account of $60,000.
2. ABC made cash sales of $20,000.
3. ABC collected $65,000 of A/R.
4. ABC wrote off $1,500 of A/R.
5. ABC subsequently collected $200 of A/R that had been previously written off.
6. ABC estimates bad debt expense to be 5% of A/R at the end of the year.
Required:
A. Prepare all necessary journal entries for ABC.
B. Prepare the entry to record bad debt expense assuming that in transaction #4, $4,000 of
A/R had been written off instead of $1,500.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F7fc7e87a-3422-4e4a-8d1f-cabfd1acbf31%2F22a7f641-e670-4db8-914d-cce1dac4ca80%2Fu3hcdrr_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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