Colorado Rocky Cookie Company offers credit terms to its customers. At the end of $2024,$ accounts receivable totaled $$665,000.$ The allowance method is used to account for uncollectible accounts. The allowance for uncollectible accounts had a credit balance of $$40,000$ at the beginning of $2024$ and $$25,000$ in receivables were written off during the year as uncollectible. Also, $$2,000$ 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:

Prepare journal entries to record the write$-$off of receivables, the collection of $$2,000$ for previously written off receivables, and the year$-$end adjusting entry for bad debt expense.

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