The following is a portion of the current assets section of the balance sheets of Avanti's, Inc., at December 31, 2017 and 2016:

	12/31/17	12/31/16
Accounts receivable, less allowance for bad debts of $9,744 and $19,891, respectively	$177,677	$234,649

Required:

a. If $11,240 of accounts receivable were written off during 2017, what was the amount of bad debts expense recognized for the year? (Hint: Use a T-account model of the Allowance account, plug in the three amounts that you know, and solve for the unknown.)

Bad debitexpense