At the end of the year, a company reports a balance in its Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts of $1,900 (credit) before any year-end adjustment. The company estimates future uncollectible accounts to be 2% of credit sales for the year. Credit sales for the year total $283,000. Record the adjustment for the allowance for uncollectible accounts using the percentage-of-credit-sales method. (If no entry is required for a particular transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field.)

Initial Balance

Accounts Receivable $ 283,000

Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 1,900

Journal Entry

Bad debt expense $ 3,760

Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 3,760

Final Balance

Accounts Receivable $ 283,000

Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts $ 5,660

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.