An aging of a company's accounts receivable indicates that $14,000 are estimated to be uncollectible.If Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a $1,100 credit balance, the adjustment to record bad debts for the period will require a

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Since the aging of accounts receivable indicates that $14,000 are estimated to be uncollectible, the company needs to record this as an expense through Bad Debt Expense. However, before doing so, the company needs to adjust its Allowance for Doubtful Accounts to reflect the estimated loss. Since the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts currently has a credit balance of $1,100, the adjustment would require a debit to increase the balance. The amount of the debit would be the difference between the estimated loss ($14,000) and the current credit balance ($1,100), which is $12,900. Therefore, the correct answer is C - debit to Bad Debt Expense for $12,900.

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