When a company uses the percentage-of-receivables method to recognize bad debt expense, what is the effect of a writeoff of a specific account?

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When a company writes off a specific account under the percentage-of-receivables method, it does not affect net income. This is because the bad debt expense has already been estimated and recorded in advance, affecting net income at the time of estimation, not at the write-off.

When a Company Uses the Percentage-Of-Receivables Method to Recognize Bad