At the beginning of the current period, waterway industries had balances in accounts receivable of $190,800 and in allowance for doubtful accounts of $9,670 (credit). during the period, it had net credit sales of $730,800 and collections of $749,620. it wrote off as uncollectible accounts receivable of $7,511. however, a $3,339 account previously written off as uncollectible was recovered before the end of the current period. uncollectible accounts are estimated to total $23,000 at the end of the period. (omit cost of goods sold entries.) (a) prepare the entries to record sales and collections during the period (b) prepare the entry to record the write-off of uncollectible accounts during the period. (c) prepare the entries to record the recovery of the uncollectible account during the period. (d) prepare the entry to record bad debt expense for the period.

Sweeten company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of march and no beginning inventories. the company has two manufacturing departments--molding and fabrication. it started, completed, and sold only two jobs during march—job p and job q. the following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for jobs p and q (all data and questions relate to the month of march): molding fabrication total estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000 estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 10,000 $ 15,000 $ 25,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 1.40 $ 2.20 job p job q direct materials $ 13,000 $ 8,000 direct labor cost $ 21,000 $ 7,500 actual machine-hours used: molding 1,700 800 fabrication 600 900 total 2,300 1,700 sweeten company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month. required: for questions 1-8, assume that sweeten company uses a plantwide predetermined overhead rate with machine-hours as the allocation base. for questions 9-15, assume that the company uses departmental predetermined overhead rates with machine-hours as the allocation base in both departments. 1. what was the company’s plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) next