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Accounts receivable refers to the amounts to be received within a short period from customers upon the sale of goods and services on account. In other words, accounts receivable are amounts customers owe to the business. Accounts receivable is an asset of a business.
Bad debt expense:
Bad debt expense is an expense account. Amount of loss incurred from extending credit to the customers are recorded as bad debt expense. In other words, estimated uncollectible accounts receivable are known as bad debt expense. To match the revenues and expenses,
Percentage-of-receivables basis:
It is a method of estimating the bad debts (loss on extending credit), by multiplying the expected percentage of uncollectible with the total amount of receivables for a specific period.
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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING:TOOLS FOR BUSINESS
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Financial AccountingAccountingISBN:9781305088436Author:Carl Warren, Jim Reeve, Jonathan DuchacPublisher:Cengage Learning