Bramble, Inc. had net sales in 2020 of $1,412,500. At December 31, 2020, before adjusting entries, the balances in selected accounts were Accounts Receivable $393,600 debit, and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts $1,922 debit. Assume that 10% of accounts receivable will prove to be uncollectible. Prepare the entry to record bad debt expense. (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

Initial Balance

Accounts Receivable $ 393,600

Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 1,922

Estimation of uncollectible accounts 10% Journal Entry

Bad debt expense $ 37,438

Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 37,438

Final Balance

Accounts Receivable $ 393,600

Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 39,360

Explanation:

Accounts Uncollectible are those credit that the company give and there are not chances of been collected.

When the customers buy products on credits but then the company can't collect the debt, then it's necessary to write off the unpaid bill as uncollectible.

One way it's to write-off directly the bad debts at the moment decided that the credit are uncollectible, the total amount

it's reported as bad debt expenses which affect negativly the income statement and the accounts receivable are reduce in the same amount, less assets.

The other way it's to determine a percentage of total amount of accounts receivables as uncollectible, exist many ways to analize the accounts receivable and figure the value of uncollectible.

When the company have the percentage of uncollectible accounts the journal entry required is Bad Expenses (debit) with Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts (credit)

At the moment of the write-off as the expenses were before recognized we only use the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts (Debit) with Accounts Receivable (Credit), with this we are recognizing the uncollectible credit of the company.