To record the bad debt, which is an adjusting entry, debit Bad Debt Expense and credit Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. When a customer is identified as uncollectible, we would credit Accounts Receivable.
Coming-of-age story. In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age). Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past.
If the first half of the novel is a coming-of-age story, the second is the reckoning as Theo gets pulled into the shadowy underworld of forgery, art thieves, and organized crime. Near the end, âThe Goldfinchâ shifts into thriller territory, with a few attendant implausibilities.