At January 1, Everbright Sales Has the Following Balances

question 105

Essay

At January 1, Everbright Sales has the following balances:
$$\begin{array} { | c | l | l | l | l | } \hline \text { Date } & \text { Accounts Receivable } & \text { Debit } & \text { Credit } & \text { Balance } \\\hline & & & & 18,000 \text { Dr. } \\\hline & & & & \\\hline\end{array}$$ $$\begin{array} { | c | c | c | c | c | } \hline \text { Date } & \begin{array} { c } \text { Allowance for } \\\text { Doubtful Accounts }\end{array} & \text { Debit } & \text { Credit } & \text { Balance } \\\hline & & & & 1,200 \mathrm { Cr } \text {. } \\\hline & & & & \\\hline\end{array}$$ $$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | l | } \hline \text { Date } & \text { Bad Debts Expense } & \text { Debit } & \text { Credit } & \text { Balance } \\\hline & & & & \\\hline & & & & \\\hline\end{array}$$ During the year, Everbright has $150,000 of credit sales, collections of $140,000, and write-offs of $3,000. Everbright records bad debt expense at the end of the year using the aging method. At the end of the year, the aging analysis produces a figure of $1,900, being the estimate of uncollectible accounts at end of year.
Required:
1. What is the December 31 journal entry to record the bad debts expense?
2. Present the Everbright accounts receivable in a partial balance sheet at December 31st.

---

Definitions:

Confidence interval

An assortment of values, from sample-based statistics, that is speculated to contain the unseen population parameter value.

Population standard deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points in a population, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the population mean.

Sample mean

The average value of the sample set, calculated as the sum of all observations divided by the number of observations.

Population proportion

The ratio of members in a population that have a particular attribute or characteristic, represented as a fraction or percentage of the total.