Karen Broderick commenced business on 1 July 2014. On 30 June 2015, she found that she had

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Karen Broderick commenced business on 1 July 2014. On 30 June 2015, she found that she had written off debts amounting to $1875. In addition, she found it necessary to create an allowance for doubtful debts of $3030. During the year to 30 June 2016, debts totalling $2400 proved to be bad and were written off, and $330 was recovered in respect of bad debts previously written off. The total of debtors’ balances at 30 June 2016 was $84 300 (after the bad debts had been written off) and it was decided to increase the allowance for doubtful debts to 5% of this figure. Ignore GST.

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A. Prepare general journal entries to record all of the transactions.

B. Prepare the Bad Debts Expense account and the Allowance for Doubtful Debts account for 2015 and 2016.

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Authors: Lew Edwards, John Medlin, Keryn Chalmers, Andreas Hellmann, Claire Beattie, Jodie Maxfield, John Hoggett

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