Is there a simple method for writing off the bad debts in AR? Our accountant has made adjustments for the write offs at year end in the GL however the AR still show the outstanding invoices.

From the Maintenance menu, use the Create Write-Off Batch function. There are lots of choices for selecting customers and which transactions to write of. This creates an adjustment batch, which you can further edit before posting and actually updating the customer.

This also generates the appropriate GL entries. So if your accountant has already made those entries, ensure they are not double-posted into GL.