
1.
Introduction:
Bad debt is an amount that a company fails to receive when the debtors or become insolvent.
To prepare:
Bad debts are 1% of total revenue- Bad debts are 2% of accounts receivables.
2.
Introduction: Accounts receivable are legitimately enforceable returns or payments which the organization will get from its clients who have bought its merchandise and services on credit. It is merely a promise to repay the vendor.
Bad debt is an amount that a company fails to receive when the debtors or become insolvent.
To prepare: Adjusting entry for bad debts
3.
Introduction: Accounts receivable are legitimately enforceable returns or payments which the organization will get from its clients who have bought its merchandise and services on credit. It is merely a promise to repay the vendor.
Bad debt is an amount that a company fails to receive when the debtors or become insolvent.
To explain: If direct write off method is better or allowance method for computing bad debts is better.

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