Blue Skies Equipment Company uses the aging approach to estimate bad debt expense at the end of each accounting year. Credit sales occur frequently on terms n/60. The balance of each account receivable is aged on the basis of three time periods as follows: (1) not yet due, (2) up to one year past due, and (3) more than one year past due. Experience has shown that for each age group, the average loss rate on the amount of the receivable at year-end due to uncollectablility is (a) 2 percent, (b) 7 percent, and 9 (c) 30 percent repectively.

At December 31, 2011 (end of the current accounting year), the Accounts Receivable balance was $46,700, and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts balance was $920 (credit). In determining which accounts have benn paid, the company applies collections to the oldest sales first. To simplify, only five customer accounts are used; details of each on December 31, 2011, follow:

REQUIRED:

1. Compute the total accounts receivable in each age catagory

2. Compute the estimates uncollectable amoint for each age category and in total

3. Give adjusting entry for bad debt expense at December 31, 2011.

4. Show how the amounts related to accounts receivable should be presented on the 2011 income statement and balance sheet