Sawyer, inc. consistently estimated its bad debt expense at 1 percent of credit sales. in 2017, however, sawyer determines that it must revise upward the estimate of bad debts for the current year’s credit sales to 2%, or double the prior years’ percentage. sawyer uses the revised estimate of 2% and calculates bad debt expense of $500,000. how is the change in the estimated bad debt expense reported in sawyer’s 2017 financial statements?
a) $500,000 of expense reported as a change in accounting principle and accounted for under the retrospective approach.
b) $500,000 of expense in the income statement and $500,000 as a contra asset in the balance sheet.
c) $500,000 of expense in the income statement as an ordinary item, $500,000 of expense reported as an adjustment to the beginning balance of retained earnings (net of tax).
d) $500,000 of expense and $500,000 as an unusual loss in the income statement.

Selected t-account balances for bloomfield company are shown below as of january 31, which reflect its accounting adjustments. the firm uses a calendar-year accounting period, but prepares monthly accounting adjustments.suppliesjan. 31 bal. 1,800 1,800 jan. 31 bal.supplies expensejan. 31 bal. 1,920 1,148 jan. 31 bal.prepaid insurancejan. 31 bal. 1,148 1,148 jan. 31 bal.insurance expensejan. 31 bal. 164 164 jan. 31 bal.wages payablejan. 31 bal. 1,400 1,400 jan. 31 bal.wages expensejan. 31 bal. 6,400 6,400 jan. 31 bal.truckjan. 31 bal. 17,376 17,376 jan. 31 bal.accumulated depreciation -truckjan. 31 bal. 5,068 5,068 jan. 31 bal.a. if the amount in supplies expense represents the january 31 adjustment for the supplies used in january, and $1,240 worth of supplies were purchased during january, what was the january 1 beginning balance of supplies? $answerb. the amount in the insurance expense account represents the adjustment made at january 31 for january insurance expense. if the original insurance premium was for one year, what was the amount of the premium, and on what date did the insurance policy start? amount of the premium $answerthe policy began on answerjune 1july 1august 1september 1october 1november 1 of the previous year.c. if we assume that no beginning balance existed in either in either wage payable or wage expense on january 1, how much cash was paid as wages during january? $answerd. if the truck has a useful life of four years (or 48 months), what is the monthly amount of depreciation expense, and how many months has bloomfield owned the truck? answermonths