Joint tenancy represents a legal contractual arrangement that involves two or more people who have agreed to own a single property sharing both obligations and rights equally.
The terms of join tenancy is such that no one whether the partner or an inheritor of will is able to sell the property in future without the consent of other partners. Secondly, when a partner dies joint tenancy does not transfer assets to heirs instead it is vested in the surviving partner.
It becomes that Bill did not name his wife as his beneficiary, hence Mike inherits the entire 342 acres of land after Bill's death.
Based on the allowance method, the bad debts should be calculated on either credit sales i.e. income statement method or receivable aging method i.e. balance sheet method. Also, the account receivable should be recognized at net realizable value
Therefore the allowance method of accounting bad debts is an answer
