Corporate Financial Accounting 14th Edition by Carl Warren,James Reeve,Jonathan Duchac

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Entries for bad debt expense under the direct write-off and allowance methods
The following selected transactions were taken from the records of Rustic Tables Company for the year ending December 31:

A. Journalize the transactions under the direct write-off method.
B. Journalize the transactions under the allowance method, assuming that the allowance account had a beginning balance of $36,000 at the beginning of the year and the company uses the analysis of receivables method. Rustic Tables Company prepared the following aging schedule for its accounts receivable:

C. How much higher (lower) would Rustic Tables' net income have been under the direct write-off method than under the allowance method?