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bad debt

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Noun1.bad debtbad debt - a debt that is unlikely to be repaid
debt - money or goods or services owed by one person to another
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German bad debt n → uneinbringliche Forderung f
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The inference is that, had the taxpayer specifically identified an allowance account (or portion thereof) as offsetting the bad debt in question--as in Brandtjen & Kluge, Inc.
The bad-debt reserve: opportunity for partial current deduction by Randolph, David W. / The Tax Adviser
It is far more expensive to write off a bad debt than it is to pay for trade credit insurance, which generally costs less than 1 percent of sales, according to research from Marsh.
Marsh by Financial Executive
said its fourth-quarter charges may exceed $1 billion and its loss from continuing operations will widen from the third quarter because of bad debt.
Tenet earnings by Los Angeles Business Journal
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