To: Al Jones FROM: Peter Flynn, President RE: Bad Debts At a party last night, a friend
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FROM: Peter Flynn, President
RE: Bad Debts
At a party last night, a friend of mine told me that we should not be using the direct write-off method. He told me that it doesn’t fulfill the matching principle of accounting. Give me your arguments to support or reject this information.
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