By the end of its first year of operations, Elgin Corporation has credit sales of $$640,000$ and accounts receivable of $$240,000.$ Given it's the first year of operations, Elgin's management is unsure how much allowance for uncollectible accounts it should establish. One of the company's competitors, which has been in the same industry for an extended period, estimates uncollectible accounts to be $3\%$ of ending accounts receivable, so Elgin decides to use that same amount. However, actual write$-$offs in the following year were $15\%$ of the $).$ Elgin's inexperience in the industry led to making sales to high credit risk customers.

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Record the adjusting entry for uncollectible accounts at the end of the first year of operations using the $3\%$ estimate of accounts receivable.

By the end of the second year, Elgin has the benefit of hindsight to know that estimates of uncollectible accounts in the first year were too low. By how much did Elgin underestimate uncollectible accounts in the first year? How did this underestimation affect the reported amounts of total assets and expenses at the end of the first year? Ignore tax effects.

Should Elgin prepare new financial statements for the first year of operations to show the correct amount of uncollectible accounts?

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Record the adjusting entry for uncollectible accounts at the end of the first year of operations using the $3\%$ estimate of accounts receivable. $($If no entry is required for a particular transaction$/$event$,$ select $"$No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field.$)$

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