Answer:
(b) By what amount would net income differ if bad debt expense was computed using the percentage-of-receivables approach?
- Increase the amount of a company's net loss by $ 11.172.
Explanation:
Sales $ 2,200,000
Dr Accounts Receivable $ 93,100
12% Uncollectible $ 11,172
- (b) By what amount would net income differ if bad debt
expense was computed using the percentage-of-receivables approach?
Dr Bad Debt Expense $ 11,172
Cr Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 11,172
If the company applies the allowance method, it means that the account Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts must show as balance the % of accounts receivables as CREDIT.
With this method the Bad Debt Expenses account are reported as expenses in the income statement, this account increase the amount of a company's net loss, in this case the impact it's a loss of $11,172
.
Bad accounts are those credits granted by the company and there is no possibility of being charged.
"When customers buy products on credits but the company cannot collect the debt, then it's necessary to cancel the unpaid invoice as uncollectible."
One way is to directly cancel bad debts at the time it was decided that the credit is bad, the total amount reported as bad debt expenses negatively affect the income statement and the accounts receivable are reduced by the same amount, less assets.
The other way is to determine a percentage of the total amount of accounts receivable as bad debts, there are many ways to analyze accounts receivable and calculate the value of bad debts.
When the company has the percentage of uncollectible accounts, the required journal entry is Bad Expenses (debit) with Reserve for Bad Accounts (credit)
.
At the time of cancellation, since the expenses were recognized before, we only use the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts (Debit) with accounts receivable (credit), with this we are recognizing the bad credit of the company.
