Accounting and Finance Questions

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).

Accounts Payable is a short term liability of an organization. It's a process by which a company buys goods and services on credit and is billed in the form of an invoice, which states the terms and conditions of the payment. Accounts Payable is recorded as a current liability in the balance sheet. All accounts paayble entries are to be coded under the right G/L accounts to have an accurate picture of the company's short term liability.

Among the first banks were the Bank of Hindustan, which was established in 1770 and liquidated in 1829-32.

Both Credit cards and Payday loans payment methods typically charges the highest interest rates. When compared Payday loans seems to charge a little bit higher interest rates than Credit Cards interest rates.

A crossed cheque indicates the amount should be deposited into the payees account and cannot be cashed by the bank over the counter. Here in the image, number#2, you can see two cross-lines on the left side corner of the cheque that indicates crossed cheque.

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

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..