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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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How is a journal entry recorded?

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A journal entry is recorded accourding to the rules of debit and credit.for example goods sold for Rs 50000 for cash ----to record this -- identify the accounts involved-- i.e.goods A/cand Cash A/cgoods is a real account and cash is also a real accountdebit and credit rule for Real accounts is DEBIT WHAT COMES IN CREDIT WHAT GOES OUT according to this--cash is coming to the organisation and goods is leaving from the organisation--Entry for this is Cash A/c Dr. 50000 to Goods A/c or Sales A/c 50000 ( For Cash Sales )

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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 the journal entry process from the time of generating an invoice to receiving payment?

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When an invoice is generated and sent to the client/customer, the JE to be passed is debit customer account and credit revenue/accounts receivable account. When payment is received from customer, then debit bank account and credit the customer account concerned

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What is the difference between back end collections and front end collections?

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Back end collections means like commission on sales or commission on providing services.
Front end collections means like sales and providing services

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What is reconciliation?

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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 are the components or materials used by Accounts receivable departments?

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Accounts Receivable department is very important department of the company. The responsbilities of the department is approval of credit limit to the customer study the past history of customer credit sending invoices to the customer updation of the customer credit data factoring contacts with the factoring agents follow up of customers motivating the customers to pay the dues intime and communicating the information to the management. Credit sales data estimation of credit sales for the future period request for funds to finance department whenever they required follow up of customers receivables management.

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