An aging of lily company’s accounts receivable as of december 31 revealed the following. amount % uncollectible current $20,000 2% 1-30 days 50,000 4% 31-60 days 30,000 7% over 60 days 10,000 25% before any adjustment for the current year’s bad debts, lily company has a balance in its allowance for bad debts of $3,000; this $3,000 represents the remaining allowance associated with accounts receivable created in prior years. lily company uses the aging method of estimating bad debt expense. what is bad debt expense for this year?

Alamar petroleum company offers its employees the option of contributing retirement funds up to 5% of their wages or salaries, with the contribution being matched by alamar. the company also pays 80% of medical and life insurance premiums. deductions relating to these plans and other payroll information for the first biweekly payroll period of february are listed as follows: wages and salaries $ 2,800,000 employee contribution to voluntary retirement plan 92,000 medical insurance premiums 50,000 life insurance premiums 9,800 federal income taxes to be withheld 480,000 local income taxes to be withheld 61,000 payroll taxes: federal unemployment tax rate 0.60 % state unemployment tax rate (after futa deduction) 5.40 % social security tax rate 6.20 % medicare tax rate 1.45 % required: prepare the appropriate journal entries to record salaries and wages expense and payroll tax expense for the biweekly pay period. assume that no employee's cumulative wages exceed the relevant wage bases for social security, and that all employees' cumulative wages do exceed the relevant unemployment wage bases.