Calculating Bad Debt Expense and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
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- This video highlights the calculations for Bad Debt Expense and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts using the Income Statement Method (Percentage of Sales) and a Balance Sheet Method (Percentage of Accounts Receivable. T-accounts are used to show the effect of each calculation on Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. Examples are given for both a debit and credit starting balance in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.
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Thank you for clear instruction. This is very helpful. I was struggling with balance sheet method for calculating bad debt expense, and this helps.
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This example is amazing. Thank very much :) I was looking for that last part for three days. The Allowance account with debit balance. of $9,000 :)
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So good and clear~ it is nice to provide an example and tell us the difference between these two method. And now I have got how to make the statements. Thank u so much !
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Thank you, breaking it up into balance sheet and income statement is helpful! I have a test coming up wish me luck
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Great video & method to clarify the different methods. One minor criticism is the use of the colour purple on a black background which is difficult to see. Just to clarify, the 2 methods (% of sales & % of A/R) give different results correct? The 20k you mentioned is not the same - ie. in the I/S method the 20k is NOT a balance, while in the B/S method it is a final balance of that account. Thanks.
Odeh Odeh Thank you for your feedback on the purple. I will use a lighter shade in the future.
You are correct in your analysis. When using the income statement method, you are calculating the bad debt expense. This is added to your allowance balance. When using a balance sheet method, you are calculating the new balance in the allowance account. Therefore, you must record the amount of bad debt expense that you would need to add to the current balance in the allowance account to bring the balance to the amount you calculated using the balance sheet method.
Thank you so much for the brilliant explanation. One question though, what would happen if the allowance for doubtful accounts had an initial balance that exceeded the current period Allowance for doubtful accounts? So meaning what would happen if our Allowance for doubtful accounts in the initial question was $22,000, and we calculated the $20,000 for the current period Allowance for DA?
You would need to reduce the Allowance account by debiting allowance and crediting bad debt expense.
this helped me so much. I thank you miss.
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Thank you again for your time and explaining Bad Debt Expense and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. It is appreciated more than you know. I have one question, if a customer paid their account and the customers account has been written off, how do we make the adjustment? Thank you again for your help.
+Melissa Latulippe If the customer pays a balance that is written off, reverse the entry you made to write off the account. Essentially, you need to restore the account balance before accepting the customer payment. Debit Accounts Receivable and Credit Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts.
+Melissa Latulippe You can see an example here: accountinginfocus.com/financial-accounting/accounts-receivable/direct-write-off-and-allowance-methods-for-dealing-with-bad-debt/
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The video helped me to have a better understanding of this topic. Thanks!
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Kristin, thank you so much for this video! so clear and understandable!
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Thank you for this great example! Made it very clear and easy to follow.
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Thank you. Do you reverse the bad debt expense if not used by year end (12/31/xx)?
Thank you very much for this, I was only able to understand it after your explanation thank you so much.
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You explained that so perfectly!! Thank you!
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Hi, this really helpful, thanks a lot:)
However, I would love if you could cover impacts such as writing off receivables and collecting the write off's in the T account and then calculating the ending figure on these respective accounts..
Thanks again..😀
I go through all of that information in my Bad Debt and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts study guide. accountinginfocus.mykajabi.com/store/q7Q6iUVL
question, the 200k of account receivable is the ending balance of a/r? so does that mean that to calculate the amount that is going to be uncollectible we have to use the ending balance of A/R?
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for the percentage of sales method, are we using total revenue (cash sales + credit sales)?, or are we just using credit revenue sales (cause we already have the cash)?
Thaanks a million for this , i legit tried to figure this out for a whole a week and it didn't work
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You made this very easy to understand!
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Hi Kristin,what about 20 000$ of allowance for doubtfull debtors using income statement,do i directly cr allow. on balance sheet as i would have debited bad debt?
If you debit bad debt expense, you credit allowance for doubtful accounts. This is true for all allowance methods.
excellent review - thank you
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Hi Kristin, How could the allowance balance be DR balance, as I know its a contra asset and is always negative on balance sheet, Didn't get the last bit at all.
Every time an account is written off, accounts receivable and allowance for doubtful accounts is reduced. We credit accounts receivable and debit allowance for doubtful accounts.
If there are more accounts written off than the company had planned and we keep debiting allowance for doubtful accounts every time an account is written off, the company might end up with a debit balance in allowance for doubtful accounts. That debit balance would not be corrected until the adjusting entry shown in the video is recorded.
I hope that helps. Let me know if you need further clarification.
thank you so much for making this topic so easy to understand.. can u clarify that in case Income statement method, in balance sheet, $32000will be deducted from account receivable as allowance of doubtful account, but on the contrary in balance sheet method $20000will be deducted from account receivable as allowance of doubtful account
You will always deduct the value on the allowance account from accounts receivable.
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Very helpful video! My question is regarding the percentage of sales method. If I have a returns and allowance balance regarding credit sales, what would I be doing with this number? Thanks!
+Sarah Tumler typically, you would use net credit sales in the calculation. Therefore, you should subtract returns and allowances and discounts from credit sales.
Huge help! Thank you.
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Thank you very much Kristin, you are so helpful to me going through the accounting final exams. I watched the other guys (Ininjanotes, khanacademy) but they are just talking too much about other craps rather than go straight to the point that i need like you. Other things that: You make your video too long to write stuff, i mean if you can write faster or cut the process of you writing it would be less boring to watch.
Anway, thanks Kristin.!
Thank you for your comment and feedback. I will work on writing a bit faster in the future. I appreciate you watching and sharing my video!
thank you so much for sharing us your knowledge, like really the way you discuss it was so easy to understand, thank you thank you so much... btw I'm a student 😊
Mary, I'm so glad I could help you! Thanks for commenting.
Hello Kristin,
Could you please tell what theories available for allowance or provisioning ??
+Ali Hegazy there are three ways to calculate bad debt using the allowance method:
Percentage of Sales
Percentage of Receivables
Aging of Receivables
This was great. thank you!
Mary Hale you're welcome. I am so glad you found the video helpful.
great job explaining
+Dan Dimov I'm so glad you found it helpful! Thanks for commenting!
Thank you so much !!! this was really helpful :)
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+Kristin Ingram Thank you very much! I wish my professor would create an outline like yours. It's so much easier to see a big picture and understand!
+Lia .Mia You're welcome. So glad I could help! Seeing the big picture does help.
hey just found this video. we are studying accounts receivable and allowance for DA. I understand the concept but when you did the balance sheet method, why is the amount for the balance? why are they different? thank you so much
+wenyan li each of the methods will give a different answer. They should not be the same.
Hi, I don't understand as to why you put the percentage of sales (income sales method) within the T-account and the percentage of credit sales(balance sales) at the end of the T-account. Can you further elaborate? Thank you very much
+Charles Lam The percentage of sales method calculates the amount of bad debt to be recorded. This amount is added to the balance in the allowance account. When you use the percentage of receivables method, you are calculating what the balance in the allowance account should be. That is why it is at the end of the T-account. You must use that balance to calculate the amount of the bad debt that goes into the journal entry.
Hi Kristin! Thank you for posting this very helpful video! I do have a question though, do you have a video that shows how to set up a T account for Bad Debts and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts? I am having a difficult time with the T accounts. Thanks for any help you can offer!
Too add to the scenario... this would be for an Aging Schedule of bad debts
+Lori Goodwin check out my other bad debt videos and my bad debt post on AccountingInFocus.Com. the T-accounts are the same for all allowance methods.
Hi Kristin. Thank you for the video. Can you please make one for Notes Receivables with Premiums and Discounts? Thanks!
+Tracey Palmer I'm so glad you found it helpful. I will add that to my list of possible new content.
Thank you. Great explanation.
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Thank you this helped me a lot
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Thanks for the you detailed example. The time you take and your notation style is very helpful. My question is: how do you note the set up of a bad debt account using the allowance method? Is there a tax implication NIBT/NIAT? Am I over thinking this? Thank you, again.
+Elias McClellan From a GAAP perspective, a company is required to use the allowance method. Therefore, the company would be required to note that there is a departure from GAAP if the direct write-off method is used.
There many be a tax implication if the direct write-off method did not approximate GAAP. The company may record additional bad debt expense to make up for the lack of allowance in previous years. This additional bad debt expense would lower NIBT, the provision for income tax, and NIAT.
I hope that response helped. Please feel free to ask further questions.
Kristin Ingram Thank you, again. This is very helpful.
+Elias McClellan You're welcome!