Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
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ISBN: 9781259533006
Author: John J Wild
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7, Problem 2DQ
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Introduction: Accounting is an efficient procedure of recognizing, recording, estimating, ordering, checking, outlining, translating and conveying the information related to the financial data to the various users of accounting.

Bad debt is an amount that a company fails to receive when the debtors or become insolvent.

To state: The reason why bad debts written off does not match the revenue and expenses.

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