Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Receivables [Abstract]

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

The Company estimates expected credit losses using a number of factors, including customer credit ratings, age of receivables, historical credit loss information and current and forecasted economic conditions (including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic) which could affect the collectability of the reported amounts. All of these factors have been considered in the estimate of expected credit losses.

The activity related to the allowance for doubtful accounts was as follows:

	Three months ended September 30,				Nine months ended September 30,
(in thousands)	2022		2021		2022		2021
Balance at beginning of period	$	7,918	$	7,334	$	5,980	$	7,698
Bad debt expense	193		626		2,648		324
Amount of receivables written off	(203)		(224)		(472)		(268)
Foreign currency translation	(227)		(74)		(475)		(92)
Balance at end of period	$	7,681	$	7,662	$	7,681	$	7,662