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Assume the company estimates bad debts using the percentage-of-sales approach. At year-end, the company estimates that 8% of credit sales will become uncollectible.
a. Credit sales: $100,000
b. Collections on credit sales: $60,000
c. Write-offs of accounts deemed uncollectible: $4,000
d. Aging analysis of accounts deemed uncollectible at December 31, 2003, shows $8,000 of potentially uncollectible accounts.
Required:
Question a. Repeat requirements for parts (a) and (b) using the percentage-of-sales approach.
Compute the following at year-end:
1. Net accounts receivable
2. Bad debt expense
Question b. If the direct write-off approach were used, how would your entries be different?