This section is to be no more than 300 words in total and your answers are required to be properly referenced. No marks will be given for these question if your answers are taken from the internet without proper referencing.

Provide an explanation for the accounting treatment of GST in relation to accounting

for bad debts that is recommended according to generally accepted accounting

principles (GAAP), if:

i) You were required to write off the balance of a customer's account

ii) You had to estimate bad debts expense using the allowance method for the

year end accounts