Question

alderwood company has provided the following information prior to any year-end bad debt adjustment: cash sales, $455,000 credit sales, $1,365,000 selling and administrative expenses, $345,000 sales returns and allowances, $105,000 gross profit, $1,485,000 accounts receivable, $345,000 sales discounts, $57,000 allowance for doubtful accounts credit balance, $3,800 alderwood prepares an aging of accounts receivable and the result shows that 5% of accounts receivable is estimated to be uncollectible. how much is bad debt expense?

Answer 1

If  sales discounts, $57,000 allowance for doubtful accounts credit balance, $3,800 alderwood prepares an aging of accounts receivable and the result shows that 5% of accounts receivable is estimated to be uncollectible. The bad debt expense is:$13,450.

How to determine the Bad debt expenses ?

First step is find the Required Balance using this formula

Required Balance =Accounts Receivables × Percentage of Uncollectible

Let plug in the formula

Required Balance =$345,000 × 5%

Required Balance =$17,250

Now let find the bad debt expenses using this formula

Bad debt expenses = Required Balance - Existing Credit Balance

Let plug in the formula

Bad debt expenses = $17,250 - $3,800

Bad debt expenses = $13,450

Therefore we can conclude that the Bad debt expenses  is the amount of $13,450.

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