Introductory Financial Accounting Lecture Week 5 Receivables Summer Semester 2014 Greg Cusack www.fbe.unimelb.edu.au Learning Objectives At the end of the lecture‚ students should Be able to apply the revenue recognition principle to determine the accepted time to record sales revenue for typical retailers‚ wholesalers‚ manufacturers and service companies. To understand the recording and management implications of credit sales‚ including the offering of sales discounts and the
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to customers. A firm grants trade credit to protect its sales from the competitors and to attract the potential customers to buy its products at favourable terms. Trade credit creates accounts receivable or trade debtors that the firm is expected to collect in the near future. The customers from whom receivable or book debt have to be collected in the future are called trade debtors or simply as debtors and represent the firms claim or asset. A credit sale has three characteristics: First‚ it
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Receivables Turnover Ratio interpretation Receivables Turnover Ratio is one of the efficiency ratios and measures the number of times receivables are collected‚ on average‚ during the fiscal year. Receivables Turnover Ratio formula is: Receivables Turnover Ratio formula Receivables turnover ratio measures company’s efficiency in collecting its sales on credit and collection policies. This ratio takes in consideration ONLY the credit sales. If the cash sales are included‚ the ratio will be
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it will be recorded in the purchase journal‚ once it has been certified as a valid invoice. After the journal entries‚ the next step is to post the journal entries into account. Ledger Account also known as “T” Account and Account. Ledger accounts categorize these changes or debits and credits into specific accounts‚ so management can have useful information for budgeting and
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bank‚ potential vendors‚ or other interested parties. An account system is also important to process sales‚ purchase orders‚ invoices‚ payroll‚ and other business functions manually. The accounting system must be scalable‚ secure and gather data feed from other business systems to collect up-to-date business finances. The installed REMS came with the following Finance and Accounting Financial Modules: General Ledger Module‚ Accounts Payable Module‚ POS module‚ Bank Reconciliation Module‚
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effective controls to ensure that the business has the lowest risk rate possible. The lower the risk‚ the less likely that fraud would occur. In this analysis‚ Learning Team B will provide a proposal for appropriate controls to cover cash‚ sales‚ accounts receivable‚ inventory‚ and production. The team will discuss some prevention techniques to reduce these risks and make recommendations in areas that will help controls within the organization. Cash Controls Internal controls for cash is essential to
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Goods/Stock purchased or sold being returned is quite a common practice in business. This may be on account of a number of reasons like defects in goods‚ quality not matching the requirement for which the buyer purchased it‚ the buyer not needing the stock‚ etc. This happens both in case of goods purchased as well as goods sold by the organisation. Where the goods sold are being returned we call it "Sales Returns" and where goods purchased are being returned we call it "Purchase Returns"
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Published Accounts Practice Question 1 The following trial balance was extracted from the books of Eavis plc on 31 December 2009: £000 £000 Sales 11‚700 Provision for depreciation: Plant 738 Vehicles 375 Rent receivable 100 Trade payables 738 Debentures 250 Issued share capital: Ordinary £1 shares 3‚125 Preference shares (treated as equity) 625 Share premium 250 Retained earnings
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EXAM SAMPLE EXAM 1. The accounting process does not include: a. b. c. 2. d. e. labor unions all of the above statement of owner’s equity income statement balance sheet d. e. both b and c all of the above This account does not appear on the income statement: a. b. c. 6. lenders prospective owners customers Expenses can be found in the: a. b. c. 5. balance sheet balance sheet and journals balance sheet and income statement income statement
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The Chart of Accounts The increases and decreases in accounting element as affected by a business transaction are recorded in a device called account name‚ account title or account. Each accounting element is composed of several accounts which describe the related economic transactions and events. To maintain uniform account name‚ the business must have a listing of all the accounts it uses to record economic transactions. This listing of all accounts is called “Chart of Accounts.” The Chart of
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