Accounts Receivable Questions

Q:

Explain How is a journal entry recorded?

Answer

Journal Entries are recorded on a double entry system ie debit and credit concept. In order to record a journal entry the following steps need to be followed.


  - Enter the Journal entry number


  - Enter the Date of transaction


  - Enter the Debit item (as per the golden principles of accountancy)


  - Enter the corresponding GL folio number


  - Enter the Debit amount


  - Enter the credit item(as per the golden principles of accountancy)


  - Enter the amount in the credit column


  - Provide a brief description of the transaction


  - leave a single line before next transaction

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What is accounts receivable aging?

Answer

An accounts receivable aging is a report that lists unpaid customer invoices and unused credit memos by date ranges. A typical aging report lists invoices in 30-day "buckets," where the left-most column contains all invoices that are 30 days old or less, the next column contains invoices that are 31-60 days old, the next column contains invoices that are 61-90 days old, and the final column contains all older invoices. The report is sorted by customer name, with all invoices for each customer itemized directly below the customer name, usually sorted by either invoice number or invoice date. A sample report follows, though without the individual invoice detail that is usually found in such a report:


Customer Name 


Total A/R 0-30


Days 31-60


Days 61-90


Days 90+


Days


Abercrombie $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 


Bufford Inc. 29,000 20,000 9,000 


Chesterton Co. 83,000 47,000 21,000 12,000 3,000


Denver Brothers 8,000 8,000


Totals $135,000 $57,000 $46,000 $21,000 $11,000


If the report is generated by an accounting software system (which is usually the case), then you can usually reconfigure the report for different date ranges. For example, if your payment terms are net 15 days, then the date range in the left-most column should only be for the first 15 days. This drops 16-day old invoices into the second column, which highlights that they are now overdue for payment.


The report primarily contains invoices, but it may also contain credit memos that have not been used by customers, or which have not yet been matched against an unpaid invoice.


The aging report is the primary tool used by collections personnel to determine which invoices are overdue for payment, and which therefore require them to contact customers. Given its use as a collection tool, the report may be configured to also contain contact information for each customer.


The aging report is also used as a tool for estimating potential bad debts, which are then used to revise the allowance for doubtful accounts. The usual method for doing so is to derive the historical percentage of invoice dollar amounts in each date range that usually become a bad debt, and apply these percentages to the column totals in the most recent aging report.


An additional use of the aging report is by the credit department, which can view the current payment status of any outstanding invoices to see if customer credit limits should be changed. This is not an ideal use of the report, since the credit department should also review invoices that have already been paid in the recent past. Nonetheless, the report does give a good indication of the near-term financial situation of customers.

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ETCS means

A) Electronic Tax Collected at Source B) Electric Tax Collected at Source
C) Enable Tax Collected at Source D) Electrical Tax Collected at Source
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Electronic Tax Collected at Source

Explanation:

Tax Collected at Source (TCS) is income tax collected in India payable by the seller who collects in turn from the buyer and it is provided under section 206C of Income Tax Act, 1961 at the sale of some goods which are specified.

E - TCS  is the process of filing TCS returns through electronic media. It is necessary for government and corporate collectors to file TCS returns in its electronic form. Collectors (other than government) have the provision to file TCS returns in physical form or electronic form.

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'Equity schemes managed strong NAV gains, which boost their assets' was a news in some financial newspapers. What is the full form of the term NAV as used in above head lines ?

A) Nil Accounting Variation B) New Asset Venture
C) Net Accounting Venture D) Net Asset Value
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Net Asset Value

Explanation:

Net asset value (NAV) is value per share of a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund (ETF) on a specific date or time. It  is the value of an entity's assets minus the value of its liabilities, often in relation to open-end or mutual funds, since shares of such funds registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are redeemed at their net asset value.

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What is a bad debt provision?

Answer

A bad debt provision is a reserve that you build up over time against the future recognition of specific accounts receivable as being uncollectible. Thus, if a company has issued invoices for a total of $1 million to its customers in a given month, and has a historical experience of 5% bad debts on its billings, it would be justified in creating a bad debt provision for $50,000 (which is 5% of $1 million).


It is impossible to know the exact amount of bad debts that will occur at some point in the future from the current account receivable, so it is entirely normal to continually readjust the bad debt provision, as you gain a greater understanding of how collectible the accounts receivable really are. These adjustments may lead to future increases or decreases in the bad debt expense. Since these adjustments can be viewed as a means of manipulating a company's reported profits, you should fully document your reasons for making the adjustments.


You would create a bad debt provision with a debit to the bad debt expense account, and a credit to the bad debt provision account. The bad debt provision account is an accounts receivable contra account, which means that it contains a balance that is the reverse of the normal debit balance found in the associated accounts receivable account. Later, when a specific invoice is found to be uncollectible, you create a credit memo in the accounting software for the amount of the invoice that is uncollectible. The credit memo reduces the bad debt provision account with a debit, and reduces the accounts receivable account with a credit. Thus, the initial creation of the bad debt provision creates an expense, while the later reduction of the bad debt provision against the accounts receivable balance is merely a reduction in offsetting accounts on the balance sheet, with no further impact on the income statement.


The reason for a bad debt provision is that, under the matching principle, you should match revenues with related expenses in the same accounting period. Doing so shows the full effect of a billed sale transaction in a single accounting period. If you were to not use a bad debt provision, and instead used the direct write off method to only charge bad debts to expense when you were certain that a specific invoice was not collectible, then the charge to expense might be many months later than the initial revenue recognition associated with the billing. Thus, under the direct write off method, profits will be too high in the period of the billing to the customer, and too low in the later period when you finally charge some portion or all of an invoice to the bad debt expense.

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Q:

What are the Golden Rules Of Accounting ?

Answer

Golden rules of accounting convert complex book-keeping rules into a set of well defined principles which can be easily studied and applied.



Real accounts involve machinery, land and building etc... Similarly when you credit what goes out, you are reducing the account balance when a tangible asset goes out of the organization. Debit All Expenses And Losses, Credit All Incomes And Gains. This rule is applied when the account in question is a nominal account.


Personal-Account


---Debit the receiver


---Credit the Giver


Real-Account


---Debit what comes in


---Credit what goes out


Nominal-Account


---Debit all expenses and losses


---Credit all income and gains

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Q:

What determines the value of an item?

A) the capital required to build the factory B) the unlimited wants of the consumers
C) the resources consumed in production D) the amount of goods that are produced
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) the capital required to build the factory

Explanation:

Value is the monetary worth of something, in this case, it is an item.

In option A, since it is talking about capital which is measured in monetary terms.

The value of an item is determined by its quality and its age. Often antiques with good quality are sold in the market with a high value and are sometimes auctioned.

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Q:

Is it possible for a company to show positive cash flows but be in grave trouble ?

Answer

Absolutely. Two examples involve unsustainable improvements in working capital (a company is selling off inventory and delaying payables), and another example involves lack of revenues going forward in the pipeline.

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