5200 is a bad debt expense as company has estimated that it is possible that company will not be able to receive that amount from debtors.
Bad debt is expense to reduce the amount of accounts receivable not recoverable from customers.
An allowance for bad debt is essentially a reduction in a bank's accounts receivable. The allowance for bad debt equals the amount of the banks loans that it does not expect to collect.
credit the account receivable and debit the bad debt expense.
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According to The Entrepreneur's Guide to Writing Business Plans and Proposals that can be found in google books, bad debt expense is a variable expense because the amount of bad debt depends on the amount of sales.
5200 is a bad debt expense as company has estimated that it is possible that company will not be able to receive that amount from debtors.
Bad debt is expense to reduce the amount of accounts receivable not recoverable from customers.
An allowance for bad debt is essentially a reduction in a bank's accounts receivable. The allowance for bad debt equals the amount of the banks loans that it does not expect to collect.
credit the account receivable and debit the bad debt expense.
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Yes.
If the company failed to recover the amount being owed by its customer, it becomes a bad debt. If the collecting agency has exhausted its effort to collect the amount owed, the company will decide to write it off. A bad debt is classified as an expense to the company. A deduction from the revenues.
Debit A/R and credit your allowance for uncollectibles account whatever the amount was to reinstate the amount previously written off. Then you'll debit cash and credit A/R to record cash collected from the customer.
In a profit and loss statement, bad debts are recorded as an expense. They are typically included in the "depreciation and bad debt" or "allowance for bad debts" category. This category is a deduction from revenues to reflect the estimated amount of uncollectible debts.
Admin expense
Uncollectible Accounts Expense.