Bad Debts
M E M O R A N D U M
CENTRAL FINANCE DEPARTMENT
2nd Floor
9-18 Euston Centre
London NW1 3ET
Ext:
5741
Fax: 5144
To: Campus Finance
Managers
cc: J. Trounson
J. Revill
K. Lee
From: P.D. Curnow, Chief Accountant
Date: 30 July 2002
Bad Debts
The following set out the underlying rules concerning whether an
irrecoverable debt
should be:
a) Written off under the rules set out in the financial regulations
with
the debit posted to the bad debt account (category code
6001).
or
b) Written back to income, i.e. the debit is posted to where
the
original credit was posted.
Rules
i) Where a service has been provided in any financial year and the
debt
is deemed to be irrecoverable the debit should be charged
to
the bad debt account (see (a) above).
ii) Where no service was provided (e.g. a student never even
attended a
course) then the debit should reverse where the original credit
was
posted (see (b) above)