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Accounting Help for discounted books?

If we discount out a receivable book over time and are writing portions of that book out, does this still impact the asset account?

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  • 2 years ago
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    depends upon how the receivable is recorded to start with. Is it recorded at the discount rate?

  • 2 years ago

    It was recorded at that discounted rate, we debit the contra asset account over time.

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