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If a company is overly optimistic about debt collection, the company will understate bad debt expense and:

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overstate net income but days to collect will increase.

Step-by-step explanation:

A bad debt expense is defined when any receivable is no more collectible as the customer is not able to fulfil or satisfy the obligation in order to pay the obligation of paying an outstanding debt because of some financial problems or due to bankruptcy.

Thus when any organization is more optimistic about the debt collection, it will understate the bad debt expenses and will also overstate the net income. But in this case the number of days to collect the payment increases.

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