Utopia Corporation provides $6,000 worth of lawn care on account during the month. Experience suggests that about 3% of net credit sales will not be collected. To record the potential bad debts, Utopia Corporation would debit:

a. Bad Debt Expense and credit Accounts Receivable for $180.
b. Accounts Receivable and credit Allowance for Doubtful Accounts for $180.
c. Bad Debt Expense and credit Allowance for Doubtful Accounts for $180.
d. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and credit Bad Debt Expense for $180.

The answer is C.

Explanation:

Credit sales is $6,000

Bad debt is 3% of net credit sales which is $180($6,000 x3%)

Creating allowance for doubtful debt entry is one of the prudent method and it tells us that some customers won't pay part of what they are owing. And it is also a contra account that offset bad debt.

According to the accounting rule, debit increases asset and expenses and vice-versa while credit decreases liability, equity, income and vice versa.

So we have have:

Dr Bad debt expense $180

Cr Allowance for Doubtful Accounts $180

the third answer is correct.