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When a Company Extends Credit to Its Customers, the Company

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When a company extends credit to its customers, the company realizes it will not likely collect all of the related accounts receivable. As some accounts may prove to be uncollectible, a company must estimate its bad debt expense.
Required:
a.What is the purpose of estimating bad debt expense?
b.There are two relationships that can be used to estimate the bad debt expense for a company. Describe the two major relationships that can be used to estimate bad debts expense and the financial statement orientation of each.


Definitions:

Sedimentary Clasts

Pieces of rock or mineral fragments that are transported and deposited by wind, water, or ice, then compacted and cemented into sedimentary rock.

Breccia

A type of rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

Conglomerate

A sedimentary rock composed of rounded clasts of varying sizes cemented together by a matrix.

Shale

A fine-grained clastic sedimentary rock formed by the consolidation of clay and other fine-grained material.

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