Write off money lying in terminated of absconded employee

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This discussion addresses how a manufacturing company should handle small employee advances that cannot be recovered from employees who have absconded. The consensus is to write off these irrecoverable advances through the Profit & Loss account. The suggested journal entry involves crediting the employee advance account and debiting an 'irrevocable advance write-off' expense account.

04 June 2020 Dear members,

We are manufacturing company and as a policy we provided the some small advances to our employee to taken care their personnel needs,

We generally recover the money from their salary. But some times employee absconded without paying his advance and it is showing under employee advance in our balance sheet

Pls help me the correct accounting treatment and journal entry for write off the money lying in absconded employee as we don't see any chances for recovery

Pls do the needful

04 June 2020 Credit advance and debit irrevocable advance write off.

12 June 2020 thanks

irrevocable advance write under P&L?

12 June 2020 Yes...............................


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