Software Technology Parks of India (STPI).Some of the software service providers will get exemption from STPI for their software exports. In accounts payable may be we need to define the vendor STPI location wise.

In India we have different STPI location. If one vendor supplying services or materials to all OR some of the STPI locations we need to maintain the same vendor STPI wise.  

The terms Billable and Non-Billable expenses are normally associated with say a consultancy company where they bill consultants out to their clients. Therefore Billable expenses will be paid by the client whereas Non-billable will be paid by your employer. What's included in both is subject to the contract your company has with their client.

EFT-Electronic Funds Transfer is basically batch of payments are transferring from one bank to another bank with specified time lines.  EFT payments are also called as BACS if it is UK, ACH in US for domestic payments.  Foreign payments are called as SWIFT payments.

WIRE: Wire can be used to release payments for local or international, Different countries will be named in different ways viz., CHAPS for Local Payments made in UK, WIRE for all international payments made from UK and Local & foreign payments made in all other countries

MIS report is known as Management Information System... regarding the Manpower status of a particular month, place and overall..

It helps the Management in decision making.. like what are the reasons of resignation.. in which area attrition is high.. and so many things to help in decision making.. with the help of MIS you may prepare a lot of reports.. Like annual attrition.. region wise attrition.. region wise manpower.. graphical representation of regions manpower status.. and so on..

You may prepare the same at your end.As it will help you to prepare other such formats too.

I am describing you the contents with sheet wise..

First Sheet - Details of employee

a. E.Code

b. Name of employee

c. Date of birth          

d. Designation

e. CTC

f. Address for communication

g.Permanent address

h. Contact number

i. Blood group

j. Maximum qualification

k. Extra qualification

l.Total Experience

Second Sheet- Salary structure

In this sheet write down the complete salary structure.. and make a column what is salary after any revision

Third Sheet - New Joinees

In this sheet write down the name of New joinees of that month with detail like CTC,  Designation, DOB etc. 

Forth Sheet - Resigned employees

In this sheet write the name of employees who resigned during that particular month with details like name, designation, date of joining, Date of resignation, last working day.

Fifth sheet - Attrition rate

Based on this MIS report, you may find out the attrition report, Qualification analysis reports, team management reports and so on can prepare a number of reports..

3 way matching is to compare three documents i.e., 

1. Purchase order

2. Receipt of Items/Packing slip 

3. Invoice. 

For example, if we Order for 50 Items in purchase order and received 40 Items only instead of 50 items. But we received invoice for 50 items. After comparing the three documents we pay for only 40 Items..

A mischarge correction is when the wrong account line was used or the wrong amount was entered. The account that was wrongly charged needs to be credited and the correct account needs to be debited. The information needs to be recorded and duly noted for your office and for the main office. A journal voucher, showing the correction, should be completed as soon as possible. The accountswill not balance at the end of the fiscal year if these corrections are not properly made.

Accounts payable process is required in a company because this will help and guide the accountant to manage their payables with in the normal course of the business.

This includes verifying and checking the invoice details including the credit terms, due date, mode of payment, payee and the items received. Only the items received will be paid. Incase theres a discrepancy against the actual receipts, a credit note will be raised by the supplier against the short-shipped invoice.

At the end of the month, AP reconcilition is required confirming both parties balances thru the statement of accounts (SOA). This you can identify which invoices or payment hasnt been booked yet by both parties and you will end up with the same balances, (equal balance from your company and with their company).

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