Accounts Receivable Questions

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Why do capital expenditures increase assets (PP&E), while other cash outflows, like paying salary, taxes, etc., do not create any asset, and instead instantly create an expense on the income statement that reduces equity via retained earnings ?

Answer

Capital expenditures are capitalized because of the timing of their estimated benefits – the lemonade stand will benefit the firm for many years. The employees’ work, on the other hand, benefits the period in which the wages are generated only and should be expensed then. This is what differentiates an asset from an expense.


 

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How important does accounts receivable useful for small business and why?

Answer

 Accounts receivables help small businesses by providing quick-time period liquidity. Additionally continued sales on credit provide the  much-needed continuity for small companies.

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What is reconciliation?

Answer

You should have recorded in your cash books all amounts you?ve actually received and payments you?ve actually made. However, the cash books may be incomplete as your bank may have put extra transactions through your account, such as:

bank fees or interest charges
direct debits (payments) and direct credits (receipts).
Doing a regular bank reconciliation will allow you to:

take into account any extra transactions your bank puts through your account, and
check and record any errors or omissions.
By regularly doing a bank reconciliation (say monthly) you can be more confident that your records contain all the information you need to prepare your income tax return and activity statements.

reconciliation- This is a statement prepared to find the reason for difference in any two balance.
eg 1)bank reconciliation is prepared to find the reason of difference between the passbook & cash book balance
2)Stock reconciliation is prepared to the reason of difference between the physical balance & book balance or to find the stock balance as on certain date.
etc

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Explain What is the difference between debenture holders and creditors?

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Debenture holder are those who provides long term loan at specific interest rate in term of cash and creditor provides only short term credit in term of cash for purchasing of goods.

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What do you mean by Credit Management under AR in Professional field?

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Credit Management is the process of managing the outstanding receivables of the organistion as per the policies adopted by the organisation. Companies might the approach of categorising the B/R by their ageing and provision for the same would be taken into account while preparing the financial statements for an organisation.

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What is factoring?

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Selling the rights to the amounts owing by debtors to a finance company for an agreed amount (which is less than the figure at which they are recorded in the accounting books because the finance company needs to be paid for providing the service).

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When an account becomes uncollectible and must be written off

A) Accounts Receivable should be credited B) Sales Revenue should be debited
C) Allowance for Doubtful Accounts should be credited D) Bad Debt Expense should be credited
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Accounts Receivable should be credited

Explanation:
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Describe account receivable?

Answer

Accounts Receivable means the amount which comes in to the business. Eg: If the trader made sales to the customer then obviously the trader will received the amount for the sales made. So here the amount which comes in is said to be accouts receivable.

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