A Newly Created Design Business Called Smart Art Is Just

question 12

Essay

A newly created design business called Smart Art is just finishing up its first year of operations. During the year, there were credit sales of $40,000 and collections of $36,000. One account for $650 was written off. Smart Art uses the percent-of-sales method to account for uncollectible account expense, and has decided to use a factor of 2% for their year-end adjustment of uncollectible account expense. Show the journal entry required to record Uncollectible account expense at the end of the year.

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Definitions:

Manufacturing Overhead

All indirect costs associated with the production process, including costs related to factory equipment maintenance, utilities, and quality control.

Machine-Hours

A measure of the amount of time a machine is operated in the production process, used for allocating manufacturing overheads.

Predetermined Overhead Rate

An estimated overhead rate used to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to products or job orders, based on a selected activity base.

Casting Department

A department within a manufacturing facility where molten materials are poured into molds to create product components.