| 1 | Not all of this 10 trillion yuan will go bad. | |
| 2 | Even bad home loans in general were only part of what went wrong. | |
| 3 | The snag is that these profits may be built on a mountain of bad debt. | |
| 4 | The accounting decision is determining the allowance for bad debts, a decision that requires considerable judgment. | |
| 5 | But many of the loans have turned bad, threatening the balance-sheets of the banks that made them. |