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SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES |
SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES | SCHEDULE II VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES ARCBEST CORPORATION
|  | Balances at |  | Additions |  |  |  |  | Balances at |
|  | Beginning of |  | Charged to Costs |  | Charged to |  |  |  |  | End of |
Description |  | Period |  | and Expenses |  | Other Accounts |  | Deductions |  | Period |
|  | (in thousands) |
Year Ended December 31, 2016 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Deducted from asset accounts: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable and revenue adjustments |  | $ | 4,825 |  | $ | 1,643 |  | $ | 980 | (a) | $ | 2,011 | (b) | $ | 5,437 |
Allowance for other accounts receivable |  | $ | 1,029 |  | $ | (180) | (c) | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 849 |
Allowance for deferred tax assets |  | $ | 354 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 61 | (d) | $ | 293 |
Year Ended December 31, 2015 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Deducted from asset accounts: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable and revenue adjustments |  | $ | 5,731 |  | $ | 998 |  | $ | (144) | (a) | $ | 1,760 | (b) | $ | 4,825 |
Allowance for other accounts receivable |  | $ | 1,701 |  | $ | (672) | (c) | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 1,029 |
Allowance for deferred tax assets |  | $ | 332 |  | $ | 22 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 354 |
Year Ended December 31, 2014 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Deducted from asset accounts: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable and revenue adjustments |  | $ | 4,533 |  | $ | 1,941 |  | $ | 2,363 | (a) | $ | 3,106 | (b) | $ | 5,731 |
Allowance for other accounts receivable |  | $ | 1,422 |  | $ | 279 | (c) | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 1,701 |
Allowance for deferred tax assets |  | $ | 1,028 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 696 | (e) | $ | 332 |
Note a – | Change in allowance due to recoveries of amounts previously written off and adjustment of revenue.
Note b – | Uncollectible accounts written off.
Note c – | Charged / (credited) to workers’ compensation expense.
Note d – | Decrease (increase) in allowance due to changes in expectation of realization of certain state net operating losses and state deferred tax assets (see Note E to the Company’s consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K).
Note e – | Decrease in allowance due to elimination of the valuation allowance relating to foreign tax credit carryforwards expected to be realized based on increased profitability of the Company’s foreign entities in 2014 (see Note E to the Company’s consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K).

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