Rogala Foods, Inc. sells Oscar Mayer, Jell-O, Tassimo, and many other food brand

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Rogala Foods, Inc. sells Oscar Mayer, Jell-O, Tassimo, and many other food brands. The company reported the following rounded amounts as of December 29, 2012 (all amounts in millions): Debits Credits Accounts Receivable Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Sales (assume all on credit) $ 1,190 $ 40 19,000 Required 182. Prepare the adjusting journal entry required at December 31, 2012, for recording Bad Debt Expense. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field. Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10). Round your answers to the nearest whole number.) (1) Assume Rogala uses 1/4 of 1 percent of sales to estimate its Bad Debt Expense for the year. (ii) Assume instead that Rogala uses the aging of accounts receivable method and estimates that $87 of its Accounts Receivable will be uncollectible.

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1 Dec-31-12 Bad Debt Expense 48 =19000*0.25%        Allowance for Doubtful Accounts 48 2 Dec-31-12 Bad Debt Expense 47 =87-40        Allowance for Doubtful Accounts 47 3 Dec-31-12 Bad Debt Expense 114 =87+27        Allowance for Doubtful Accounts 114 4 Jan-2-13 Allowance for Doubtful Accounts 15       Accounts Receivable 15

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