Five years ago, tom loaned his son john $20,000 to start a business. a note was executed with an interest rate of 8%, which is the federal rate. the note required monthly payments of the interest with the $20,000 due at the end of ten years. john always made the interest payments until last year. during the current year, john notified his father that he was bankrupt and would not be able to repay the $20,000 or the accrued interest of $1,800. tom is an accrual basis taxpayer whose only income is salary and interest income. the proper treatment for the nonpayment of the note is: a. no deduction. b. $3,000 deduction. c. $20,000 deduction. d. $21,800 deduction. e. none of the above.

Swathmore clothing corporation grants its customers 30 days' credit. the company uses the allowance method for its uncollectible accounts receivable. during the year, a monthly bad debt accrual is made by multiplying 3% times the amount of credit sales for the month. at the fiscal year-end of december 31, an aging of accounts receivable schedule is prepared and the allowance for uncollectible accounts is adjusted accordingly. at the end of 2012, accounts receivable were dollar 586.000 and the allowance account had a credit balance of dollar 50,000. accounts receivable activity for 2013 was as follows: the company's controller prepared the following aging summary of year-end accounts receivable: prepare a summary journal entry to record the monthly bad debt accrual and the write-offs during the year. (if no entry is required for a particular event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.) prepare the necessary year-end adjusting entry for bad debt expense. (if no entry is required for an event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.) what is total bad debt expense for 2013? calculate the amount of accounts receivable that would appear in the 2013 balance sheet?