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.
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