Reference no: EM132920149
ABC Corporations has the following transactions and account balances during the year:
A/R beginning balance = $45,000
Allowance for doubtful accounts beginning balance = $2,250
ABC made sales on account of $60,000.
ABC made cash sales of $20,000.
ABC collected $65,000 of A/R.
ABC wrote off $1,500 of A/R.
ABC subsequently collected $200 of A/R that had been previously written off.
ABC estimates bad debt expense to be 5% of A/R at the end of the year.
Required:
Question 1: Prepare the necessary journal entries for ABC.
Question 2: Prepare the entry to record bad debt expense assuming that in transaction #4, $4,000 of A/R had been written off instead of $1,500.