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In finance, bad debt, occasionally called uncollectible accounts expense, is a monetary amount owed to a creditor that is unlikely to be paid and for which the creditor is not willing to take action to collect for various reasons, often due to the debtor not having the money to pay, for example due to a company going into liquidation or insolvency.
Deferred tax assets generally arise where tax relief is provided after an expense is deducted for accounting purposes: a company may accrue an accounting expense in relation to a provision such as bad debts, but tax relief may not be obtained until the provision is utilized
A third classification of adjusting entry occurs where the exact amount of an expense cannot easily be determined. The depreciation of fixed assets, for example, is an expense which has to be estimated. The entry for bad debt expense can also be classified as an estimate.
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Good debt vs. bad debt. Good debt and bad debt are distinguished by whether the cost being financed could increase in value. Good debt. Mortgage. School loan. Real estate loan. Business loan. Bad debt
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Monitoring the Accounts Receivable portfolio for trends and warning signs. Hiring and firing credit analysts, accounts receivable and collections personnel. Enforcing the "stop list" of supply of goods and services to customers. Removing bad debts from the ledger (Bad Debt Write-Offs). Setting credit limits.
Examples are accumulated depreciation against equipment, and allowance for bad debts (also known as allowance for doubtful accounts) against accounts receivable. [33] United States GAAP utilizes the term contra for specific accounts only and does not recognize the second half of a transaction as a contra, thus the term is restricted to accounts ...