Liang Company began operations in Year 1. During it's first two years, the company completed a number of transactions involveing sales on credit, accounts receivable collections and bad debts. These transactions are summarized as follows.

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Liang Company began operations in Year 1. During it's first two years, the company completed a number of transactions involveing sales on credit, accounts receivable collections and bad debts. These transactions are summarized as follows.

 

Year 1 

a. Sold $1,345,434 of merchandise (that had costs $975,000) on credit, terms n/30.

b. Wrote off $18,300 of uncollectivle accounts receivable

c. Received $669,200 cash in payments of acccounts receivable.

d. In adjusting the accounts on Decmeber 31, the company estimated that 1.5% of accounts receivable would be uncollectible.

We are to prepare the journal entries to record Liang's Summariezed trasnsactions and its year end adjustments to record bad debts expenses. The company uses the perpectual inventory system and it applies the allowance method for it's accounts receiveable. Round to the nearest dollar.)

The book has a "Check" (an answer) for d. Dr. Bad Debt Expense $28,169. I can't seem to get to that answer. I figured:

1,345,434 - 18,300 - 669,200 = 657,934 A/R left, of which 1.5% = 9,869.01 bad debts. But this isn't their answer.

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