Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ALLOWANCE METHOD
  
  the accepted way to account for bad debt. Bad debt expense may be based on the percent of credit sales for the period, an aging of the accounts receivable balance at the end of the period, or some other method, e.g., percent of accounts receivable.
  
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