The Effect on the Accounting Reports of the Current Year

question 14

Multiple Choice

The effect on the accounting reports of the current year of not taking into account a bad debt would be:

• A) to overstate profit.
• B) to overstate the asset debtors.
• C) both A and B.
• D) neither A nor B.

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