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. If Provision for Doubtful Debts is the name of the account used for recording the current period's expense associated with the losses from normal credit sales, it will appear as an operating expense on the company's income statement. The journal to record the provision would be as follows. Provision for doubtful debts: These are debts the organisation may not be able to collect because of possible disputes with debtors. . $ 1,500. Provision. The allowance, sometimes called a bad debt reserve, represents management's estimate of the amount of accounts receivable that will not be paid by customers. . 500 are Bad Debts and a provision for Doubtful Debts is to be created at 5% on the balance of debtors. The 10% of costs that arise through extraction of oil are recognised as a liability when the oil is extracted. Deferred tax could be deferred tax asset or deferred tax liability, in which it will be deductible or taxable in the future. DR Income statement. Writing of obligations in this way means making two accounting system accounts: Firstly, the firm debits the amount of the debt to an account.