During 2021, its first year of operations, Pave Construction provides services on account of $160,000. By the

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During 2021, its first year of operations, Pave Construction provides services on account of $160,000. By the end of 2021, cash collections on these accounts total $110,000. Pave estimates that 25% of the uncollected accounts will be uncollectible. In 2022, the company writes off uncollectible accounts of $10,000.


Required:
1. Record the adjustment for uncollectible accounts on December 31, 2021.
2. Record the write-off of accounts receivable in 2022 and calculate the balance of Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts at the end of 2022 (before adjustment in 2022).
3. Assume the same facts as above but assume actual write-offs in 2022 were $15,000. Record the write-off of accounts receivable in 2022 and calculate the balance of Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts at the end of 2022 (before adjustment in 2022).

Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...
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Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-1259914898

5th edition

Authors: David Spiceland, Wayne M. Thomas, Don Herrmann

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