Answer:
The adjustment to record bad debts for the period will be:
Debit Bad debt expense ($20,000 - $3,000) $17,000
Credit Allowance for doubtful accounts $17,000
<em>(Bad debt expense required)</em>
Explanation:
Bicylce Company adopts the aging of accounts receivable method. The aging of accounts receivable is a criterion for apportioning the balance in the accounts receivable into different buckets (aging), for example: Not due, 1 - 30 days, 30 - 60 days, over 60 days, based on historical information and assigning a credit loss percentage to each bucket.
Since the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a $3,000 credit, to calculate the required bad debt expense, we need to back out this amount from the amount that is deemed uncollectible, that is $20,000 - $3,000 = $17,000.
Answer: C. An actor who comes from a respected talent agency.
Explanation:
Talent Agencies are professionals in the field. The people they send have been put through training programs that the Talent Agency knows will serve them well because they are in that same industry. For this reason, actors from Talent Agencies send the strongest signals.
Look at it this way, would you take investment advice from an investment banker or from an entrepreneur? Both could present very strong cases but the Investment Banker has expertise in the subject and is more likely to be picked.
It is the same here. The Talent Agency is believed to have expertise and so when they send someone, that person is considered first.
Services are typically intangible.
A. Early Childhood Development.
