Determine the expected net realizable value of the accounts receivable as of december 31 (after all of the adjustments and the adjusting entry). $ 4. assuming that instead of basing the provision for uncollectible accounts on an analysis of receivables the adjusting entry on december 31 had been based on an estimated expense of ½ of 1% of the sales of $15,800,000 for the year, determine the following: a. bad debt expense for the year. $ b. balance in the allowance account after the adjustment of december 31. $ c. expected net realizable value of the accounts receivable as of december 31 (after all of the adjustments and the adjusting entry).

Dr Bad Debt Expense$ 79,000

Cr Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts$ 79,000

Cr Allowance for Doubtful Accounts$ 79,000

Net realizable value of the accounts receivable$ 15.721.000

Explanation:

Net realizable value of the accounts receivable$ 15,721,000

As the company does not have a balance of accounts receivable, we assume that the net realizable value it's the net of total sales.

If the company applies the allowance method, it means that the account Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts must show as balance the % estimated of accounts receivables as CREDIT.

Bad accounts are those credits granted by the company and there is no possibility of being charged.

"When customers buy products on credits but the company cannot collect the debt, then it's necessary to cancel the unpaid invoice as uncollectible."

One way is to directly cancel bad debts at the time it was decided that the credit is bad, the total amount reported as bad debt expenses negatively affect the income statement and the accounts receivable are reduced by the same amount, less assets

The other way is to determine a percentage of the total amount of accounts receivable as bad debts, there are many ways to analyze accounts receivable and calculate the value of bad debts.

When the company has the percentage of uncollectible accounts, the required journal entry is Bad Expenses (debit) with Reserve for Bad Accounts (credit)

At the time of cancellation, since the expenses were recognized before, we only use the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts (Debit)  with accounts receivable (credit), with this we are recognizing the bad credit of the company.

if you use only 25 for your entertainment and only 200 for the groceries that you really need and take out the 50 per month for the computer then that should be enough