bad debt


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Related to bad debt: Bad Debt Expense, Bad Debt Recovery
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Noun1.bad debt - a debt that is unlikely to be repaidbad debt - a debt that is unlikely to be repaid
debt - money or goods or services owed by one person to another
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Translations

bad debt

ncredito inesigibile
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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The fact that my tradesman is out of pocket by me is to be looked at through the serene certainty that somebody else's tradesman is in pocket by somebody else; and since there must be bad debts in the world, why, it is mere egoism not to like that we in particular should make them instead of our fellow-citizens.
This is the second bad debt transaction completed by BoC after Helix, which concerned the sale of loans worth e1/42.8bn, e1/42.7bn being NPEs.
That is what bad debt will do to you if you're not careful with how you spend.
An above-average performance on net collections rate may mean RCM processes are being managed and collected exceptionally well, or it could also indicate that the billing department is taking what should be bad debt adjustments as contractual adjustments, which erroneously inflates net collections statistics.
Still, there is good debt and bad debt. Learning to distinguish between good debt and bad debt can help us decide and achieve a better financial future.
University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire reported PS84,066 in losses and special payments in 2016/17, including PS43,815 in overseas patient bad debt, PS271 in private patient bad debt and PS16,492 in other bad debt.
Global Banking News-July 17, 2017--Chinese president calls on state-owned firms to control bad debt
Careful tax planning that maximizes the business bad debt deduction can help minimize the taxpayer's overall economic loss.
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M2 EQUITYBITES-June 30, 2014-Banco Popolare shelves bad debt unit sale, to pursue mergers
Now the bank's main business is operating in profit, but it had to write off a significant amount of bad debt, mostly due to loans in the property sector that will never be paid back.