Johnson Ltd. reported the following information on financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019:

Accounts receivable .........................................    $2,978,500
Allowance for doubtful accounts ...................            95,312
Bad debts expense ..........................................          152,305

During 2020, the company had the following transactions related to receivables:

a. Sales were $26,358,000, of which $21,086,000 were on account.

b. Collections of accounts receivable were $19,923,000.

c. Writeoff s of accounts receivable were $102,200.

d. Recoveries of accounts previously written off as uncollectible were $21,300. (Note that this amount is not included in the collections referred to in item b above.)

Required

1. Prepare the journal entries to record each of the four items above.

2. Set up T accounts for the Accounts Receivable and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and enter their January 1, 2020, balances. Then post the entries from part “a” and calculate the new balances in these accounts.

3. Prepare the journal entry to record the bad debts expense for 2020. Johnson Ltd. uses the aging of accounts receivable method and has prepared an aging schedule, which indicates that the estimated value of the uncollectible accounts as at the end of 2020 is $129,300.

4. Show what would be presented on the statement of financial position as at December 31, 2020, related to accounts receivable.