Determining Bad Debt Expense Using the Aging Method At the beginning of the year, Tennyson Auto Parts had an accounts receivable balance of $31.800 and a balance in the allowance for doubtful accounts of s2,980 (oredr). During the year, Tennyson had credit sales of $524,300, collected accounts receivable in the amount of s602,700, wrote off $18,600 of accounts receivable, and had the following data for accounts receivable at the end of the period: Proportion Expected Receivable Age to Default $18,700 1-15 days past due 5,300 16-45 days past due 3,100 46-90 days past due 0.15 over 90 days past due $33,100 Required Determine the desired postadjustment balance in allowance for doubtful accounts, Determine the balance in allowance for doubtful accounts before the bad debt expense adjusting entry is posted. 3, Compute bad debt expense. 4. Prepare the adjusting entry to record bad debt expense. Record adjusting entry for bad debt expense estimate