Colorado Rocky Cookie Company offers credit terms to its customers. At the end of 2024, accounts receivable totaled $700,000. The allowance method is used to account for uncollectible accounts. The allowance for uncollectible accounts had a credit balance of $47,000 at the beginning of 2024 and $28,500 in receivables were written off during the year as uncollectible. Also, $2,700 in cash was received in December from a customer whose account previously had been written off. The company estimates bad debts by applying a percentage of 15% to accounts receivable at the end of the year.

Required:

1. Prepare journal entries to record the write-off of receivables, the collection of $2,700 for previously written-off receivables, and the year-end adjusting entry for bad debt expense.

2. How would accounts receivable be shown in the 2024 year-end balance sheet?