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Using The Percentage-Of-Receivables Method For Recording Bad Debt Expense, Estimated  Uncollectible Accounts Are $45,000. If The Balance Of The Allowance For Doubtful Accounts Is $6,000 Debit Before Adjustment, What Is The Balance After Adjustment? You May Also Be Interested In “ The Allowance For Doubtful Accounts Is A Contra Asset Account That Equals ” The correct choice is (a) as estimated uncollectible accounts are predetermind as $45,000 which is the total of uncollectible accounts’ balance which we expected not to collect from our customers for the accounting period. So, before and after Adjustment , the balance remains unchanged.

A Debit Balance In The Allowance For Doubtful Accounts indicates that the Actual Bad Debts Written Off are more than the previous allowance for doubtful accounts or doubtful debts. So, the correct answer of this multiple choice question (MCQ) is (b). So, a debit balance of Allowance For Doubtful Accounts occurs when we estimate that a percentage of account receivable will not be received from customers in future is less than the actual amount of bad debts which is to be returned off.

An Aging Of A Company's Accounts Receivable Indicates That $6,000 Are Estimated To Be Uncollectible. If Allowance For Doubtful Accounts Has A $2,000 Debit Balance, The Adjustment To Record Bad Debts For The Period Will Require A The correct answer is (a), as we need to debit Uncollectible Accounts Expense Account (Estimated Bad Debts Expense Account) with the $8000 amount and credit Allowance For Doubtful Debt Accounts with the $8000 amount in order to adjust it for the period. Required Balance                        $6000 Balance Before Adjustment   - ($2000)                                                    __________ Adjustment Required                 $8000                                                   ___________                                                   ___________