Chapter 8, Problem 23E

Determining Bad Debt Expense Using the Aging Method At the beginning of the year, Tennyson Auto Parts had an accounts receivable balance of $31,800 and a balance in the allowance for doubtful accounts of $2,980 (credit). During the year, Tennyson had credit sales of $624,300, collected accounts receivable in the amount of $602,700, wrote off $18,600 of accounts receivable, and had the following data for accounts receivable at the end of the period: Required: 1. Determine the desired post adjustment balance in allowance for doubtful accounts. 2. Determine the balance in allowance for doubtful accounts before the bad debt expense adjusting entry is posted. 3. Compute bad debt expense. 4. Prepare the adjusting entry to record bad debt expense.

UNCOLLECTIBLE ACCOUNTSPERCENTAGE OF SALES AND PERCENTAGE OF RECEIVABLES At the completion of the current fiscal year ending December 31, the balance of Accounts Receivable for Andersons Greeting Cards was 180,000. Credit sales for the year were 1,950,000. REQUIRED Make the necessary adjusting entry in general journal form under each of the following assumptions. Show calculations for the amount of each adjustment and the resulting net realizable value. 1. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a credit balance of 2,600. (a) The percentage of sales method is used and bad debt expense is estimated to be 1.5% of credit sales. (b) The percentage of receivables method is used and an analysis of the accounts produces an estimate of 30,250 in uncollectible accounts. 2. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a debit balance of 1,900. (a) The percentage of sales method is used and bad debt expense is estimated to be 1.0% of credit sales. (b) The percentage of receivables method is used and an analysis of the accounts produces an estimate of 20,500 in uncollectible accounts.

UNCOLLECTIBLE ACCOUNTSPERCENTAGE OF SALES AND PERCENTAGE OF RECEIVABLES At the completion of the current fiscal year ending December 31, the balance of Accounts Receivable for Yangs Gift Shop was 30,000. Credit sales for the year were 355,200. REQUIRED Make the necessary adjusting entry in general journal form under each of the following assumptions. Show calculations for the amount of each adjustment and the resulting net realizable value. 1. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a credit balance of 330. (a) The percentage of sales method is used and bad debt expense is estimated to be 2% of credit sales. (b) The percentage of receivables method is used and an analysis of the accounts produces an estimate of 6,950 in uncollectible accounts. 2. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a debit balance of 400. (a) The percentage of sales method is used and bad debt expense is estimated to be 1.5% of credit sales. (b) The percentage of receivables method is used and an analysis of the accounts produces an estimate of 5,685 in uncollectible accounts.

Using data in Exercise 9-9, assume that the allowance for doubtful accounts for Waddell Industries has a credit balance of 6,350 before adjustment on August 31. Journalize the adjusting entry for uncollectible accounts as of August 31. Waddell Industries has a past history of uncollectible accounts, as follows. Estimate the allowance for doubtful accounts, based on the aging of receivables schedule you completed in Exercise 9-8. The accounts receivable clerk for Waddell Industries prepared the following partially completed aging of receivables schedule as of the end of business on August 31: The following accounts were unintentionally omitted from the aging schedule and not included in the preceding subtotals: a. Determine the number of days past due for each of the preceding accounts as of August 31. b. Complete the aging of receivables schedule by adding the omitted accounts to the bottom of the schedule and updating the totals.

Tonis Tech Shop has total credit sales for the year of 170,000 and estimates that 3% of its credit sales will be uncollectible. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a credit balance of 275. Prepare the adjusting entry at year-end for the estimated bad debt expense. (a) Based on an aging of its accounts receivable, Kyles Cyclery estimates that 3,200 of its year-end accounts receivable will be uncollectible. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a debit balance of 280 at year-end. Prepare the adjusting entry at year-end for the estimated uncollectible accounts.

AGING ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE An analysis of the accounts receivable of Johnson Company as of December 31, 20--, reveals the following: REQUIRED 1. Prepare an aging schedule as of December 31, 20--, by adding the following column to the three columns shown above: Estimated Amount Uncollectible. 2. Assuming that Allowance for Doubtful Accounts had a credit balance of 620 before adjustment, record the end-of-period adjusting entry in general journal form to enter the estimate for uncollectible accounts.

At the end of 20-3, Martel Co. had 410,000 in Accounts Receivable and a credit balance of 300 in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. Martel has now been in business for three years and wants to base its estimate of uncollectible accounts on its own experience. Assume that Martel Co.s adjusting entry for uncollectible accounts on December 31, 20-2, was a debit to Bad Debt Expense and a credit to Allowance for Doubtful Accounts of 25,000. (a) Estimate Martels uncollectible accounts percentage based on its actual bad debt experience during the past two years. (b) Prepare the adjusting entry on December 31, 20-3, for Martel Co.s uncollectible accounts.

UNCOLLECTIBLE ACCOUNTSPERCENTAGE OF SALES AND PERCENTAGE OF RECEIVABLES At the end of the current year, the accounts receivable account of Parkers Nursery Supplies has a debit balance of 350,000. Credit sales are 2,300,000. Record the end-of-period adjusting entry on December 31, in general journal form, for the estimated uncollectible accounts. Assume the following independent conditions existed prior to the adjustment: 1. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a credit balance of 1,920. (a) The percentage of sales method is used and bad debt expense is estimated to be 1% of credit sales. (b) The percentage of receivables method is used and an analysis of the accounts produces an estimate of 24,560 in uncollectible accounts. 2. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a debit balance of 1,280. (a) The percentage of sales method is used and bad debt expense is estimated to be of 1% of credit sales. (b) The percentage of receivables method is used and an analysis of the accounts produces an estimate of 22,440 in uncollectible accounts.

Aging Method Bad Debt Expense Cindy Bagnal, the manager of Cayce Printing Service, has provided the following aging schedule for Cayces accounts receivable Cindy indicates that the $121,100 of accounts receivable identified in the table does not include $4,600 of receivables that should be written off. Required: 1. Journalize the $4,600 write-off. 2. Determine the desired post adjustment balance in allowance for doubtful accounts (round each aging category to the nearest dollar). 3. If the balance in allowance for doubtful accounts before the $4,600 write-off was a debit of $700, compute bad debt expense. Prepare the adjusting entry to record bad debt expense.