The Accounts Receivable balance for Lake Company at December 31, 2017, was $20,000. During 2018, Lake earned revenue of $454,000 on account and collected $325,000 on account. Lake wrote off $5,600 receivables as uncollectible. Industry experience suggests that uncollectible accounts will amount to 5% of accounts receivable. Requirements 1. Assume Lake had an unadjusted $2,700 credit balance in Allowance for Bad Debts at December 31, 2018. Journalize Lake's December 31, 2018, adjustment to record bad debts expense using the percent-of-receivables method. 2. Assume Lake had an unadjusted $2,400 debit balance in Allowance for Bad Debts at December 31, 2018. Journalize Lake's December 31, 2018, adjustment to record bad debts expense using the percent-of-receivables method.

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During its first year of operations, Crane Company had credit sales of $3,064,300; $655,000 remained uncollected at year-end. The credit manager estimates that $36,900 of these receivables will become uncollectible. Prepare the journal entry to record the estimated uncollectibles. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.) Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit List of Accounts Prepare the current assets section of the balance sheet for Crane Company. Assume that in addition to the receivables it has cash of $94,400, inventory of $135,200, and prepaid insurance of $8,500. (List Current Assets in order of liquidity.) CRANE COMPANY Balance Sheet (Partial) 24 %24 %24

As of January 1, 2024, Barley Company had a credit balance of $520,000 in its allowance for uncollectible accounts. Based on experience, 2% of Barley’s gross accounts receivable have been uncollectible. During 2024, Barley wrote off $650,000 of accounts receivable. Barley’s gross accounts receivable as December 31, 2024 is $18,000,000. How much bad debt expense should Barley record for 2024?

How do you get to the answer for #5.  Answer: 2,525, but I keep getting 2275

Harlan Company uses the Allowance method for accounting for receivables. They had the following information as of December 31, 2022: Net Credit Sales, year 2022   6,867,750     Accounts Receivable, December 31, 2021   655,000     Accounts Receivable, December 31, 2022   745,000     Allowance for Doubtful Accounts, December 31, 2022   4,350   Credit Harlan Company estimates that 2% of the Accounts Receivable will become uncollectible. What are some things that a company can do to improve the collection of its Accounts Receivable?  On January 7, 2023 it was determined that Bundy Company’s account in the amount of $3,800 will be uncollectible. Prepare the entry to write off the Bundy Company account.  What is the Cash Realizable Value of the receivables after the write-off of the Bundy Company account?

Use the following to answer questions 28-29: Accounts receivable Allowance Cash realizable value 12/31/2016 $525,000 (45,000) $480.000 During 2017, sales on account were $145,000 and collections on account were $86,000. Also during 2017; the company wrote off $8,000 in uncollectible accounts. An analysis of outstanding receivable accounts at year end indicated that bad debts should be estimated at $54,000. 28. The change in the cash realizable value from the balance at 12/31/2016 to 12/31/2017 was a:. A) $50,000 B) $59,000. C) $42,000 D) $51,000 29. Bad debts expense for 2017 is: A) $17,000 B) $9,000 C) $54,000 D) $1,000

At the beginning of 2018 Evan Company had a $1,958 balance in its accounts receivable account and a $448 balance in allowance for doubtful accounts. During 2018, Evan experienced the following events. (1) Earned $4,577 of revenue on account. (2) Collected $1,505 cash from accounts receivable. (3) Wrote-off $339 of accounts receivable as uncollectible.  Evan estimates uncollectible accounts to be 3% of sales. Based on this information, the December 31, 2018 adjusted balance in the allowance for doubtful accounts is

The balance sheet at the end of 2018 reported Accounts Receivable of $785,500 and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts of $11,783 (credit balance). The company’s total sales during 2019 were $8,350,200. Of these, $1,252,530 were cash sales the rest were credit sales. By the end of the year, the company had collected $6,291,700 of accounts receivable. It also wrote off an account for $10,380. Prepare the journal entry for collections. Account Names DR CR  Blank 1. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 2. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 3. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 4. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 5. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 6. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 7. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 8. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 9. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 10. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.  Blank 11.…

Presented below is information for Windsor, Inc. for 2017: 1. Beginning-of-the-year Accounts Receivable balance was $173,000. Net sales for the year were $1,400,000. $150,000 of the sales were cash sales. Windsor does not offer cash discounts for 2. early payment. 3. Collections on accounts receivable during the year were $1,202,000. Windsor plans to factor accounts receivable totaling $60,000 at the end of the year. Windsor will transfer the accounts to Herzog Factors, Inc. with recourse. Herzog Factors will retain 3% of the balances for probable adjustments and assesses a finance charge of 5%. The fair value of the recourse obligation is $1,600.