Answer:
Bad debt expense $ 1,020
Accounts Receivable $ 1,020
Explanation:
Initial Balance
Accounts Receivable $ 48,400
Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 940
During 2019, Coolwear wrote off $820 in accounts receivable
Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 820
Accounts Receivable $ 820
Accounts Receivable $ 47,580
Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 120
Determined that there should be an allowance for uncollectible accounts of $1,140 at December 31, 2019
Bad debt expense $ 1,020
Accounts Receivable $ 1,020
Final Balance
Accounts Receivable $ 47,580
Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 1,140
Accounts Uncollectible are those credit that the company give and there are not chances of been collected.
When the customers buy products on credits but then the company can't collect the debt, then it's necessary to write off the unpaid bill as uncollectible
One way it's to write-off directly the bad debts at the moment decided that the credit are uncollectible, the total amount it's reported as bad debt expenses which affect negativly the income statement and the accounts receivable are reduce in the same amount, less assets.
The other way it's to determine a percentage of total amount of accounts receivables as uncollectible, exist many ways to analize the accounts receivable and figure the value of uncollectible.
When the company have the percentage of uncollectible accounts the journal entry required is Bad Expenses (debit) with Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts (credit)
At the moment of the write-off as the expenses were before recognized we only use the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts (Debit) with Accounts Receivable (Credit), with this we are recognizing the uncollectible credit of the company.
