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abandon de créances

English translation: debt write-off


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French term or phrase:abandon de créances
English translation:debt write-off
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14:22 Sep 9, 2009
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Bus/Financial - Accounting
French term or phrase: abandon de créances
rejet de charge ou abandon de créances
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Iraq
Local time: 17:47
debt write-off
Explanation:
...or, depending on context and what fits best, write-off of debt or even debts written off.

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This has come up on KudoZ before – see http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/finance_general/...
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Rob Grayson
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:47
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TVM ROB
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5debt write-off
Rob Grayson
3forgiveness of debt (or) remission of debt (or) remittal of debt
Narasimhan Raghavan
Summary of reference entries provided
abandon de créance
Stéphanie Soudais

  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
forgiveness of debt (or) remission of debt (or) remittal of debt


Explanation:
Writing off of a (bad) debt

Narasimhan Raghavan
Local time: 21:17
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
debt write-off


Explanation:
...or, depending on context and what fits best, write-off of debt or even debts written off.

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Note added at 5 mins (2009-09-09 14:28:29 GMT)
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This has come up on KudoZ before – see http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/finance_general/...

Rob Grayson
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:47
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 68
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TVM ROB

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  John Detre
17 mins
  -> Thanks, John

agree  Chantal Tougas
43 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  Lianne Wilson
49 mins
  -> Thanks, Lianne

agree  cmwilliams
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, cmw

agree  · george ·
16 hrs
  -> Thanks, solarstone

neutral  rkillings: The write-off is merely the accounting recognition of the renunciation of the claim. Up to the asker to decide whether this distinction matters in his context.
16 hrs
  -> Fair point, Bob – though I think it's a fairly safe bet that a write-off is what we're talking about here...
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Reference comments


16 hrs
Reference: abandon de créance

Reference information:
Le Dictionnaire Ménard de la compta donne :

FR
abandon de créance
renonciation à une créance
remise de dette

EN
remittal of debt
remission of debt
forgiveness of debt

Renonciation, de la part du créancier, au remboursement de sa créance, ce qui a pour effet de dispenser le débiteur du règlement de sa dette.

Stéphanie Soudais
France
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Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 47
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Sep 10, 2009 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
Field (specific)Finance (general) => Accounting


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