Given: 
........Jan. 2003.........Dec. 2003
Provision for bad debt........N1000
Debtors..............................N20000
Bad debt to be written off.......................N2000

The provision for bad debt stands at 10% of debtors. How much is to be charged to profit and loss account as provision for bad debt?

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