(d) In October 2023, the company contracted with its auditors for the auditors to undertake consulting work. The auditors were paid $980,000 for this consulting (and this is included as consulting expenses in the trial balance above). Part of this consulting work related to trying to manage credit risk. The company was concerned that its bad debts were increasing but also concerned about the impact any tightening of credit policy would have on sales revenues. As a result of this consulting the company changed its credit arrangements. Tighter credit checks were undertaken, and this reduced the number of customers allowed credit. However, to encourage sales, those customers that were allowed credit were given extra time to pay (from the previous 14 days required to 2 months in some cases). These changes were implemented and had little impact on overall sales revenues but did result