Loose Leaf for Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
Loose Leaf for Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions
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ISBN: 9781260158762
Author: John J Wild
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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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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