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Financial Accounting

by | Nov 30, 2023 | questions

Here is information for Zeus Ltd. for the 2012 calendar year:

Total credit sales

$6,600,000

Accounts receivable at December 31

2,500,000

Accounts receivable written off during year

96,000

Accounts receivable later recovered (after write-off but before year end)

16,000

At the end of the year, uncollectible accounts were estimated to total $104,000 based on an aging schedule.

Instructions

(a)

What amount of bad debts expense will Zeus record if Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has an opening credit balance of $40,000 on
January 1?

(b)

Assume the same facts as in (a) except that there is a $20,000 opening credit balance in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. What
amount of bad debts expense will Zeus record?

(c)

What are the advantages of using the allowance method of reporting bad debts expense?

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