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Accounts receivable aging is a technique to estimate bad debt expense by classifying accounts receivable of a business according to of length of time for which they have been outstanding and then estimating the probability of noncollection for each category. The classification of accounts receivable in the accounts receivable aging schedule also helps the business to identify the customers who take longer to pay so that they can restrict sales to those customers to reduce risk of bad debts.
Typically receivables are categorized into periods which are multiples of payment terms. For example if company sells at payment terms of n/20, the typical classification in aging schedule will be0 to20 days,20 to40 days,40 to60 days and so on.
The next step is to calculate the probability of noncollection for each of the above category which is then multiplied with the sum of accounts receivable from each category. This returns the amount of accounts receivable which are expected to become bad in each category.
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