EAlgo Recording, Reporting, and Evaluating a Bad Debt Estimate Using Aging Analysis LO
Brown Cow Dairy uses the aging approach to estimate bad debt expense. The ending balance of each account receivable is aged on
the basis of three time periods as follows: not yet due, $; up to days past due, $; and more than days
past due, $ Experience has shown that for each age group, the average loss rate on the amount of the receivables at yearend
due to uncollectibility is percent, percent, and percent, respectively. At December end of the current year the
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts balance is $credit before the endofperiod adjusting entry is made.
Data during the current year follow:
a During December, an Account Receivable Pattys Bake Shop of $ from a prior sale was determined to be uncollectible;
therefore, it was written off immediately as a bad debt.
b On December the appropriate adjusting entry for the year was recorded.
Required:
Give the required journal entries for the two items listed above.
Show how the amounts related to Accounts Receivable and Bad Debt Expense would be reported on the income statement and
balance sheet for the current year. Disregard income tax considerations. Answer is not complete.
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Show how the amounts related to Accounts Receivable and Bad Debt Expense would be reported on the income statement for
the current year. Disregard income tax considerations.Answer is not complete.
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Show how the amounts related to Accounts Receivable and Bad Debt Expense would be reported on the balance sheet for current year. Disregard income tax considerations. Amounts to be deducted should be indicated by a minus sign.
tableBROWN COW DAIRYBalance Sheet PartialAs of December Current assets:Accounts receivable,
u $times Allowance for doubtful accounts,V$