Beautiful Lawns Company estimates its doubtful accounts by aging its accounts receivable and applying percentages to various aged categories of accounts. The Beautiful Lawns Company computes a total of $3,600 in estimated doubtful accounts as of December 31, 2016. Its Accounts Receivable account has a balance of $112,800 and Its Allowance for Doubtful Accounts G a credit balance of $600 before adjustment at December 31, 2016. How much bad debts expense will Beautiful Lawns report in 2016?

a. $480
b. $3,840
c. $3,000
d. $3,360

The bad debt expense is the expense which is related to the current asset accounts receivable of the company. It is also recognized as the uncollectible accounts expense, which could not collected by the company in the near future.

It result when the company delivered the goods and services on credit and the customer did not paid the amount owed.

So, computing the bad debt expense as:

Bad debt expense = Estimated doubtful account - Credit balance of Allowance for doubtful accounts

= $3,600 - $600

= $3,000

ebts expense is related to a company's current asset accounts receivable. Bad debts expense is also referred to as uncollectible accounts expense or doubtful accounts expense. Bad debts expense results because a company delivered goods or services on credit and the customer did not pay the amount owed.