At December 31, 2022, the trial balance of Malone Company contained the following amounts before adjustment. Instructions

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At December 31, 2022, the trial balance of Malone Company contained the following amounts before adjustment. 

Debit Credit Accounts Receivable Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Sales Revenue $180,000 $ 1,500 875,000


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a. Prepare the adjusting entry at December 31, 2022, to record bad debt expense, assuming that the aging schedule indicates that $10,200 of accounts receivable will be uncollectible. 

b. Repeat part (a), assuming that instead of a credit balance there is a $1,500 debit balance in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. 

c. During the next month, January 2023, a $2,100 account receivable is written off as uncollectible. Prepare the journal entry to record the write-off . 

d. Repeat part (c), assuming that Malone Company uses the direct write-off method instead of the allowance method in accounting for uncollectible accounts receivable. 

e. What are the advantages of using the allowance method in accounting for uncollectible accounts as compared to the direct write-off method?

Aging Schedule
Aging schedule is an accounting table that shows a company’s account receivables. It is an summarized presentation of accounts receivable into a separate time brackets that the rank received based upon the days due or the days past due. Generally...
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Financial Accounting Tools for Business Decision Making

ISBN: 978-1119493631

9th edition

Authors: Paul D. Kimmel, Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso

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