2 How might the risk be reduced of taking revenue to the trading account (or other income to the profit and loss account) before the cash for sales made has been received?

Conventional accounting practice allows sales revenue to be included in an accounting period than the one in which cash relating to the sale is received. This is risky because debtors may not always pay what they owe. Hence the need to set up a provision for bad and doubtful debts. This article shows that Sodexho Alliance got into some difficulties over doubtful sales.