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Fife Company has the following account balances at December 31 of 2019: Accounts Receivable $42,400 and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts $1,600 (credit balance). Fife uses the aging of accounts receivable to estimate bad debts. The following aging schedule reflects the situation at year-end:

  

(1) Calculate the amount of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts that should appear on the December 31, 2019 Balance Sheet.
(2) Prepare the journal entry to record bad debts expense for the current year.

Answer 1

Answer 1)

Calculation of amount of allowance for doubtful debts that should appear on December 31, 2019

	Amount of Accounts receivable	Estimated percentage of uncollectible	Estimated amount of uncollectible
	$26,000	2%	$520
	$9,000	5%	$450
	$5,000	10%	$500
	$1,900	25%	$475
	$500	40%	$200
Total	$42,400		$2,145

Therefore the amount of allowance for Doubtful accounts that should appear on December 31, 2019 is $ 2,145.

Answer 2)

Journal Entry

Date	Account Titles and Explanations	Debit	Credit
December 31' 2019	Bad debts expense	$545
	Allowance for Doubtful accounts		$545
	(To record bad debts expense)

Working Note:

Bade debts expense for the year = Amount of allowance for bad debts that should appear on December 31, 2019 – Amount of allowance for bad debts before adjustment

                                                                               = $ 2,145 - $ 1,600

                                                                              = $ 545