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AC1103
Week 6 (Covered in W7)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Credit Sales | An entity's sales to customers on credit- these customers are known as trade recievables |
| Bad Debt Write-Off | Customer is unable to pay the amount due on their account |
| Allowance for credit losses | An estimate of the recievables that an entity is unlikely to recover |
| General Allowance | An estimate of the total amount of credit losses computed using a percentage of the trade recievables at the end of the current year |
| Specific Allowance | Involves which particular customers at the end of the year are unlikely to pay their debts and providing specific allowance for credit losses relating to those particular customers |
| Increase in the allowance for doubtful debts results in: | A decrease in current assets |