1. Bad debt expenses arise when a firm is unable to collect on some of its accounts receivable (AR). When this occurs, the firm has little recourse; it could either sell the probable bad debt to a collection agency (a sale will be recorded on the firm's books, but not as an expense), or it could just write-off the uncollectible amount as an expense on the income statement.
2. Companies often say something like: "we will take a one-time charge against earnings this quarter." This means that an extraordinary event has occurred and, altough it affects present earnings, it is unlikely to occur again. As a result, a company will usually provide an earnings per share (EPS) figure with and without this charge.
• Charge-offs for loan losses were only 0.7% of total loans, about half the average for regional banks.
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2) сумма, на которую произведён вычет
- charge-off on buildings and machinery
- loan charge-off
списывание со счёта, списывание в расход; амортизация
charge-offсм.write off