The phrase "allowance for bad" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a provision or consideration for bad debts or losses, but it is incomplete and ambiguous without additional context.
Example: "In our financial report, we need to include an allowance for bad debts to accurately reflect our potential losses."
Alternatives: "provision for bad debts" or "reserve for bad accounts".
The accounting decision is determining the allowance for bad debts, a decision that requires considerable judgment.
But in 2007, the company reported that revenue increased by a smaller amount — only 33percentt — and yet the company's allowance for bad debt suddenly rose 19percentt.
In 2005, according to Satyam's S.E.C. filings, its revenue grew about 40percentt and its allowance for bad debts grew about 9percentt.
Atlas, the largest hauler of freight for other airlines will change the way it accounts for value of inventory, with an allowance for bad debts and maintenance expense.
Accounting practices such as depreciation, revenue recognition, pension costing, and allowance for bad debts and loan losses permit a better, albeit less precise, measurement of a company's income in a period than would a pure cash-in, cash-out approach.
Chargeoffs occur after six months, and the allowance for bad debt increased last year to $41.3 million from $22.7 million, she said, because of "customer bankruptcies and delinquent accounts due to the economic environment in fiscal 2001".
Citigroup has said it believes the inquiry is related to investments, business activities and allowances for bad loans in Argentina in the fourth quarter of 2001 and first quarter of 2002, at the height of that country's fiscal crisis.
Citigroup said it believes the probe concerns how it accounted for investments, business activities and allowances for bad loans related to Argentina for the fourth quarter of 2001 and first quarter of 2002.
Reverend Frank Benson Jones in his "Stop The Prosperity Preachers" argues that the unlimited tax-free housing allowance is bad for religion.
I pulled rank and took away allowances, threatened grounding the kids' for "bad attitudes" -- and they threatened back with the proverbial "So what?" and "I don't care!" It was a complete disaster.
Make allowances for the occasional bad day.
