Accounting and Finance Questions

The open items of an account can only be cleared once you post an identical offsetting amount to the account. In other words, the balance of the items assigned to each other must equal zero.During clearing, the system enters a clearing document number and the clearing date in these items. In this way, invoices in a vendor account are indicated as paid, and items in a bank clearing account are indicated as cleared.

You generally use the payment program to clear invoices. Manual clearing of open items is therefore not usually necessary. However, you will sometimes have to clear items manually if, for example, you receive a refund from your vendor or you have set up a direct debit procedure.

Before answering the above question let us first understand the meaning of Intercompany transactions. Intercompany transactions are those transactions that takes place between two or more entities of the same group of company. So the receivable of one entity would the payable of another entity. All intercompany transactions are eliminated befor preparing the final Balance sheet of the group company.

Purchasing good two kinds of entry 

Either Cash or Credit 

If Cash

Purchase A/c ------ Dr  xx  To Cash A/c

(Being good purchase on cash)

If Credit 

Purchase A/c ---- Dr  To Supplier A/c

(Being goods purchase on Credit)

Excess payment to supplier is treated as Advance paid to supplier. This will show as debit balance in supplier account.

Supplier can send the payment by way of cheque / demand draft without adjusting in his subsequent bills.

ERS is a business process between trading partners that conduct commerce without invoices. In an ERS transaction the supplier ships goods based upon an Advance Shipping Notice (ASN) and the purchaser upon receipt confirms the existence of a corresponding purchase order or contract verifies the identity and quantity of the goods and then pays the supplier.

Following steps should be taken

>Validate the invoice once it is matched for checking any holds..

>If workflow is implemented , Initiate approval for the invoice. Once the invoice is approved/Approrval not required(status in case WF is not implemented) you can go for payments.

>Create accounting after approval of invoice..

Finally for payments you need to format, build
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Before making payment

the following steps should be taken
1. invoice amt, date, qty, quy,
2. invoice duplication or not
3. rectification of any Errors in invoice
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Before hand over the invoice or dispatch the materials
1.we have to receive perchase order from the customer
2.Then PDC cheque, cash or current dated chq for dispatch the materials
3.have to take signature from the customer for the proof of goods recieve
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We must check the invoice thoroughly.
(1) Date of Invoice
(2)Qty,Rate,Tax Levid

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 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.