At the close of its first year of operations, December 31, 2014, Ming Company had accounts receivable of $1,080,000, after deducting the related allowance for doubtful accounts. During 2014, the company had charges to bad debt expense of $180,000 and wrote off, as uncollectible, accounts receivable of $80,000. What should the company report on its balance sheet at December 31, 2014, as accounts receivable before the allowance for doubtful accounts? (Points : 2)


$880,000
$980,000
$1,180,000
$1,340,000

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How long is a piece of string? There is incomplete information here we don't know what the unadjusted receivables were at 1 Jan 2014 and so must assume that these transactions are the only bad debts. This is not reasonable