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Question 1: (from chapter 25) D. Facaulti started in business buying and selling law textbooks, on 1st January 2018. At the end of each

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Question 1: (from chapter 25) D. Facaulti started in business buying and selling law textbooks, on 1st January 2018. At the end of each of the next three years, his figures of accounts receivable, before writing-off any bad debt were as follows: 31-Dec-18 32,066 31-Dec-19 40,166 31-Dec-20 6,816 Bad debts to be written-off (after recording the accounts receivables above) are as follows: 31-Dec-18 31-Dec-19 4,116 2,757 The allowance for doubtful debts in each year is 5% of accounts receivable. Required: (See Hint 1 on the Hints sheet) (a) Prepare Facaulti's bad debts expense account and allowance for doubtful debts account for 2018, 2019 and 2020. (b) The amounts due from B. Roke (70) and H. A. Ditt (42) became irrecoverable in 2018 and were written-off. Show the entries in the ledger accounts to record these write-offs. (You can treat this part (b) as an entirely separate question :))

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