Question

Morrow Inc. uses the percentage of credit sales method of estimating doubtful accounts. The Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has an unadjusted credit balance of $3,700 and the company had $190,000 of net credit sales during the period. Morrow has experienced bad debt losses of 3% of credit sales in prior periods. After making the adjusting entry for estimated bad debts, what is the ending balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts account

Answer 1

Answer:

$9,400

Explanation:

The computation of ending balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts account is shown below:-

The ending balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts account = Net credit sales × Bad debt losses + Unadjusted credit balance

= $190,000 × 3% + $3,700

= $5,700 +$3,700

= $9,400

Therefore for computing the ending balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts account we simply applied the above formula.