HCl ==> H(+) + Cl(-) (ii) as a colourless fuming gas. The polar covalent gas Hydrogen Chloride is very soluble in Water. In aqueous solution, the molecule exists in ionic form, as the positively charged Hydrogen Ion, H(+), and the negatively charged Chloride Ion, Cl(-).
You determine that a customer who owes you $180 is never going to pay. To write off the debt, reduce both accounts receivable and the allowance by the amount of the bad debt -- $180. You now have an accounts receivable balance of $19,820 and an allowance of $120. Net accounts receivable remains the same: $19,700.hey do this by taking bad-debt expenses and performing write-offs. A bad-debt expense anticipates future losses, while a write-off is a bookkeeping maneuver that simply acknowledges that a loss has occurred.
Thus the use of direct write-off method would cause deduction of expenses of previous period against revenue of current period which is contrary to the matching principle of accounting. Since this method is not according to GAAP, it not advised to use direct write-off method. Instead, the allowance method of bad debts treatment is preferred.