When making adjustments in the trial balance, do you take the amount of provision of bad debt off the accounts receivable?

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Date Posted: 2018/02/24

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by Lt Colonel Raj Kumar Singh , Associate General Manager , Adani Enterprises Limited

No, we don't take off the bad debt from the receivable amount in the adjustment of trial balance.

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