Intel Corporation is a well-known supplier of computer chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks. Assume the

Question:

Intel Corporation is a well-known supplier of computer chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks. Assume the company recently reported the following amounts in its unadjusted trial balance at its year-end of December 25, 2010 (all amounts in millions):

Debits Credits

Accounts Receivable............................. $2,895

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts............................ $ 19

Sales (assume all on credit).................................. 43,623

Required:

1. Assume Intel uses ¼ of 1 percent of sales to estimate its Bad Debt Expense for the year. Prepare the adjusting journal entry required for the year, assuming no Bad Debt Expense has been recorded yet.

2. Assume instead that Intel uses the aging of accounts receivable method and estimates that

$40 of its Accounts Receivable will be uncollectible. Prepare the adjusting journal entry required at December 25, 2010, for recording Bad Debt Expense.

3. Repeat requirement 2, except this time assume the unadjusted balance in Intel's Allowance for Doubtful Accounts at December 25, 2010, was a debit balance of $20.

4. If one of Intel's main customers declared bankruptcy in 2011, what journal entry would be used to write off its $15 balance?

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