1. Bad-Debt Reporting the chief accountant for Dolly wood Corporation provides you with the following list of accounts receivable written off in the current year. Dolly wood Corporation follows the policy of debiting Bad Debt Expense as accounts are written off. The chief accountant maintains that this procedure is appropriate for financial statement purposes because the Internal Revenue Service will not accept other methods for recognizing bad debts. All of Dolly wood Corporation's sales are on a 30-day credit basis. Sales for the current year total $2,400,000, and research has determined that bad debt losses approximate 2% of sales.
(a) Do you agree or disagree with Dolly wood's policy concerning recognition of bad debt expense?Why or why not?
(b) By what amount would net income differ if bad debt expense was computed using the percentage of- sales approach?
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