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Colorado Rocky Cookie Company offers credit terms to its customers. At the end of 2018,
totaled $625,000. The allowance method is used to account for uncollectible accounts. The allowance for uncollectible accounts had a credit balance of $32,000 at the beginning of 2018 and $21,000 in receivables were written off during the year as uncollectible. Also, $1,200 in cash was received in December from a customer whose
account previously had been written off. The company estimates
accounts receivable at the end of the year.
Required:
1. Prepare
off receivables, and the year-end
2. How would accounts receivable be shown in the 2018 year-end
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