222

$show=home

Welcome to Accounting Education

The Accounting University with 3400+ Accounting contents as study material which can watch, read and learn anyone, anywhere.

Start your studies

$show=home

Journal Entries $type=three$count=6$author=hide$comment=hide$label=hide$date=hide$show=home$s=0

Balance Sheet $type=three$count=6$author=hide$comment=hide$label=hide$date=hide$show=home$s=0

Accounting Treatment of Provision for doubtful debts

Before doing accounting treatment of provision for doubtful debts , you must know the complete definition of provision . In accounting , it is a reserve that is against loss due to non payment of debtors . In case debtor does not give us our amount . Then if we have make provision or reserve for this , we can easily purchase new goods but if we have no money due to every year bad debts then we can become insolvent . So with our work experience we should make our provision on our debtors with some % on debtor .
Now you are ready for doing the accounting treatment of provision for doubtful debts .

First of pass the journal entry of actual bad debts .

Entry for recording actual bad debt which did not record in books of business

1. Bad debts account Dr. xxxxx
To Sundry Debtors Account xxxxxx

Entry for transferring bad debts to provision for bad debts Account

2. Provision for bad debts account Dr. xxxxxx
To Bad Debts account xxxxx

Transfer of provision for bad debts account to profit and loss account

3. Profit and loss account Dr. xxxxxx
To Provision for bad debts account xxxxx

It is not necessary that provision for doubtful debt account will go only to the debit side of this account but it may go to the credit side . It will decide after making provision for doubtful debt account . Which is very easy to make . I am showing you this account . After study of this account you can easily make this account and take the benefits of this provision .

Comments

: 9
  1. Non profit debt consolidation companies are designed to help consumers get out of debt and stay out of debt by helping them to pay off all debts in a timely fashion and repair damaged credit. They also have materials available to teach clients how to make credit work for them and the strategies behind building a healthy credit rating.

    ReplyDelete
  2. When will it provision comes to credit side

    ReplyDelete
  3. Provision should have credit balance whereas in the above journal entry which I am re writing below, shows debit balance, how is this so?
    Provision for bad debts
    To bad debts
    Should not the journal entry be:
    Sundry debtors
    To provision for bad debts
    And at end of the year it has to be:
    Profit and loss
    To sundry debtors

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. read the post's journal entry in this sequence- 3-1-2..

      you first have to create a provision..then u have to record the actual bad debt...then u have to use the provision for the amount of actual bad debt

      Delete
  4. Mayur I think you are right but the journal entry should be:
    1) while creating provision for bad debts:
    Sundry debtors A/c Dr (As asset as debit balance)
    To provision for bad debts A/c (AS liabi has credit bal)
    2) When actual bad debt occurs:
    Bad debts A/c (As expense has debit balance)
    To Sundry debtor (Decrease in asset is a credit balance)

    So the final entry after cancelling the 1st and 2nd journal entry would be:

    Bad debts A/c Dr
    To Provision for bad debts A/c

    Am I Right?

    ReplyDelete
  5. there is one more closing entry

    Provision for bad and doubtful debts A/c Dr.
    To sundry debtors

    ReplyDelete
In comment, you can give your feedback, reviews, ideas for improving content or ask question relating to written content.

 


Name

access,2,account,86,accountant,95,Accounting,683,accounting definitions,99,accounting ebook,3,Accounting education,85,Accounting Education Ads Help,1,accounting procedure,2,accounting process outsourcing,2,Accounting Software,52,advance,3,advertising,6,africa,7,Amalgamation,6,amendments,16,Amortization,1,announcements,62,Annuity,2,assets,53,audit,47,auditing,41,Australia,2,B.Com.,22,balance sheet,87,bank,111,Bank reconciliation,12,banking,33,basic accounting,110,BBA,1,benefits,13,best,50,bill,12,black money,3,blog,12,bloggers,7,book keeping,4,bookkeeping,3,Branch Accounting - full tutorial,8,budget,35,Budget variance,13,business,65,businessman,9,CA,30,calculator,4,canada,3,capital,72,capital budgeting,27,career,21,cash,40,cash book,8,cash flow statement,11,Chiense,1,children,13,china,6,class,3,coaching,2,coins,2,college,6,commerce,10,commerce students,7,company,36,computer,9,computer accounting,1,conference,4,Contact vinod kumar,1,Control Your Spending,27,corporate accounting,69,cost,160,cost accounting,195,cost center,8,cost centre,1,CPA,2,credit,18,credit card,11,cs,10,currency,35,data,11,Debit and credit,17,debit cards,1,debt,62,debtor,21,degree,6,depletion,2,depreciation,38,Diwali Messages,12,documents,4,dollar,5,domain,3,Downloads,3,Dubai,1,e-accounting,17,earning,17,education,246,Education Loans,6,email,15,employee,4,EPF,2,ERP,7,euromoney,1,examination,7,excel,17,excise duty,6,expenses,65,facebook,7,factor of loan,1,fans,2,feature,32,fifo,5,FII,4,fiji,1,finacle,1,finance,823,Finance Journal Entries,6,Financial,134,financial accounting,147,Financial Statements,4,fire insurance,3,flickr,2,flow,4,forensic,4,forex,21,formula,8,france,1,fraud,6,free,2,fun,34,function,1,fund,48,GAAP,36,GDP,1,gdr,5,germany,1,gold,7,goodwill,4,goodwill accounting,3,google,34,google apps,3,google apps,1,google base,1,google buzz,1,google calendar,1,Google docs,38,google finance,3,google fusion tables,1,google talk,5,govt.,5,GST,33,guide,85,health,6,Hindi,2,Hindi Language,3,history,3,holding company,3,How to treat FBT in Tally 9,1,HRA,3,ICAI,11,ICAWI,3,ICICI Bank,1,IFRS,11,income,17,income statement,19,Income Tax,7,India,57,indian railway,1,Indonesia,1,inflation,4,inflation accounting,3,infographics,8,information,7,inspiration,176,insurance,14,insurance accounting,2,Intangible,3,interest,26,international,7,Internet,40,Introduction of Tally 9,1,inventory,41,investment,135,investment in Shares,6,invoice,3,IT,1,Japan,1,Job costing,4,journal entries,143,Journal Entries eBook Help,4,Kalculate,1,keyboard,3,kuwait,2,laptop,2,law,4,LBT,1,learning,36,lease,5,lecture,11,ledger,17,leducation,1,Leverage Analysis,7,liabilities,16,lifo,3,linkedin,1,loan,74,logical point,1,loss,5,loss of profit,1,M.Com.,5,m.phil,2,malaysia,3,management accounting,129,manual accounting,4,manufacturing account,1,market,11,marketing,3,mastercard,2,material,13,MBA,14,MCA,1,media,4,migration,2,mobile,9,money,61,ms word,3,ms. excel,14,multi currency in tally 9,1,Multicurrency Accounting,3,mutual fund,30,national security,1,new and sacrifice ratio,1,new york times,1,new zealand,1,news,1,NGO,5,nonprofit-accounting,6,North Georgia Mountains,1,Notification,1,NPV,17,NSE,1,odbc,2,office,10,oman,1,online application,2,online accounting,11,Online Accounting Course,5,otcei,1,pakistan,3,parents,3,Partnership,1,pay pal,3,pdf,4,Personal Finance,6,pie chart,1,pie chart of income,2,pnb,5,podcast,1,ppf,1,presentation,10,price,7,privacy policy,2,prof. vinod kumar,13,profit,24,profit and loss account,12,project management,11,provision,14,purchase,9,puzzles,2,quickbooks,2,Quote,22,quotes,42,quotes of svtuition,1,rating agency,2,ratio analysis,34,RBI,7,readers,13,real estate,13,rectification of errors,11,remote control,2,reports,10,reserves,8,responsibility accounting,4,retirement,2,revenue,3,Revenue reserves,2,review,7,risk,11,rupees,9,salary,5,sale,12,SAP,3,saudi arabia,1,saving,19,sbi,9,scholarship,2,school,1,SEBI,13,security,30,service tax,23,share,20,share trading,15,Shares,16,shri lanka,3,singapore,2,sms,6,social accounting,7,society,5,solution,219,South Africa,1,stock,24,stock exchange,22,structure,6,student,39,students,70,study,21,subsidiary company,2,svtuition,14,swiss bank,2,tally,100,tally 9,8,Tally 7.2,8,Tally 9,42,Tally.ERP 9,59,TallyPrime,1,tanzania,2,tax,94,Tax Accounting,30,TDS,15,teacher,62,teaching,112,technology,33,test,40,testimonial,15,testimonials,15,thailand,1,tips,60,trading,5,trading on equity,2,transaction,7,trend,12,trial balance,14,truthfulness,1,tuition,3,twitter,10,UAE,5,UGC - NET Commerce,13,UK,11,United Arab Emirates,1,university,9,usa,25,valuation,9,VAT,22,Video,36,Voucher and vouching,4,Wealth,8,wikipedia,25,working capital,29,youtube,14,
ltr
item
Accounting Education: Accounting Treatment of Provision for doubtful debts
Accounting Treatment of Provision for doubtful debts
Accounting Education
https://www.svtuition.org/2008/09/accounting-treatment-of-provision-for.html
https://www.svtuition.org/
https://www.svtuition.org/
https://www.svtuition.org/2008/09/accounting-treatment-of-provision-for.html
true
2410664366776677676
UTF-8
Loaded All Posts Not found any posts VIEW ALL Reply Cancel reply Delete By Home PAGES Contents View All RELATED CONTENTS FOR YOUR LEARNING Topic ARCHIVE SEARCH ALL POSTS Not found any post match with your request Back Home Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat January February March April May June July August September October November December Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec just now 1 minute ago $$1$$ minutes ago 1 hour ago $$1$$ hours ago Yesterday $$1$$ days ago $$1$$ weeks ago more than 5 weeks ago Followers Follow THIS PREMIUM CONTENT IS LOCKED STEP 1: Share to a social network STEP 2: Click the link on your social network Copy All Code Select All Code All codes were copied to your clipboard Can not copy the codes / texts, please press [CTRL]+[C] (or CMD+C with Mac) to copy