Splish Fashions has been in business several years. At the end of the current year, the ledger shows the following: Accounts Receivable Sales Revenue Allowance for Doubtful Accounts R$ 343,000 Dr. 2,241,900 Cr. 5,100 Cr. Bad debts are estimated to be 6% of accounts receivable. Prepare the entry to adjust Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually. List debit entry before credit entry) Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit
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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