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Valuation and Qualifying Accounts | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts [Abstract] |
Schedule of Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Disclosure | CARRIAGE SERVICES, INC. SCHEDULE II — VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS (in thousands)
Description | Balance at beginning of year |  | Charged to costs and expenses |  | Deduction |  | Balance at end of year
Year ended December 31, 2015: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Allowance for bad debts, current portion | $ | 802 |  |  | $ | 966 |  |  | $ | 1,039 |  |  | $ | 729 |
Allowance for receivables from preneed funeral and cemetery trusts and contract cancellations, non-current portion | $ | 2,339 |  |  | $ | 712 |  |  | $ | 1,009 |  |  | $ | 2,042 |
Employee severance accruals | $ | 216 |  |  | $ | 698 |  |  | $ | 634 |  |  | $ | 280 |
Litigation reserves | $ | 3 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 3 |  |  | $ | — |
Valuation allowance of the deferred tax asset | $ | 330 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 141 |  |  | $ | 189 |
Year ended December 31, 2016: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Allowance for bad debts, current portion | $ | 729 |  |  | $ | 1,155 |  |  | $ | 1,138 |  |  | $ | 746 |
Allowance for receivables from preneed funeral and cemetery trusts and contract cancellations, non-current portion | $ | 2,042 |  |  | $ | 943 |  |  | $ | 819 |  |  | $ | 2,166 |
Employee severance accruals | $ | 280 |  |  | $ | 3,641 |  |  | $ | 2,404 |  |  | $ | 1,517 |
Valuation allowance of the deferred tax asset | $ | 189 |  |  | $ | 20 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 209 |
Year ended December 31, 2017: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Allowance for bad debts, current portion | $ | 746 |  |  | $ | 1,248 |  |  | $ | 1,159 |  |  | $ | 835 |
Allowance for receivables from preneed funeral and cemetery trusts and contract cancellations, non-current portion | $ | 2,166 |  |  | $ | 950 |  |  | $ | 838 |  |  | $ | 2,278 |
Employee severance accruals | $ | 1,517 |  |  | $ | 571 |  |  | $ | 2,088 |  |  | $ | — |
Valuation allowance of the deferred tax asset | $ | 209 |  |  | $ | 35 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 244 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for any allowance and reserve accounts (their beginning and ending balances, as well as a reconciliation by type of activity during the period). Alternatively, disclosure of the required information may be within the footnotes to the financial statements or a supplemental schedule to the financial statements. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 235 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122369 + Details
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