At December 31, 2018, Hawke Company reports the following results for its calendar year.

Cash sales $ 1,905,000
Credit sales 5,682,000
In addition, its unadjusted trial balance includes the following items.
Accounts receivable $ 1,270,100 debit
Allowance for doubtful accounts 16,580 debit

Prepare the adjusting entry for this company to recognize bad debts under each of the following independent assumptions

a. Bad debts are estimated to be 1.5% of credit sales.
b. Bad debts are estimated to be 1% of total sales.

The adjusting entries are shown below:

Explanation:

The journal entries are shown below:

a. Bad debt expense $85,230

         To Allowance for doubtful debts $85,230

(Being the bad debt expense is recorded)

The computation is shown below:

= $5,682,000 × 1.5%

= $85,230

a. Bad debt expense $75,870

         To Allowance for doubtful debts $75,870

(Being the bad debt expense is recorded)

The computation is shown below:

= ($5,682,000 + $5,682,000) × 1%

= $75,870

answercontrol is returned to method c;

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the answer to your question is : c) a government agency or homeowner

due to his line of work, he is most likely employed by a government agency or homeowner due to the other choices not being logical haha.