Accounts Payable Questions

You should have recorded in your cash books all amounts you have actually received and payments you have 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.

Managerial Accounting is also called as Management accounting or Cost accounting. It is the process of identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating information to managers of an organization. Then that managers use the provisions of accounting information in order to better inform themselves before they decide matters within their organizations, which aids their management and performance of control functions.

For material/Goods Purchases, the Po is required. In the Po, QTY, Product Name, Where is delivery price, Terms and Conditions. In the po there is no matter of final amount. It is just the approximate amount.

Capital Gains Tax on Property:

1. Short term,

2. Long term

Short Term Capital Gain on property is considered as a gain from selling a property which was held by you for less than 36 months. As a taxpayer, you are liable to pay tax on short term capital gain on property as per your applicable marginal income tax slab.

* Current Short Term Capital Gains tax rate is 30%.

Long Term Capital Gain

When you sell your property that is owned by you for more than three years, any gain arising from such sale will be considered as long term capital gain. Long term capital gain is calculated as the difference between net sales consideration and indexed cost of property.

* Current Long Term Capital Gains tax rate is 20%.

A company may also have various company codes across the different locations. There will be exchange of services between these company codes. These goods and services which are shared or exchanged between these company codes are bring to terms during the month end process. The exchange difference has to be settled by a company code in the way of money transfer.

This process is known as Intercompany Settlement. 

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are basic accounting principles and guidelines are concepts that govern the field of accounting.

Accounting principles and guidelines include :

* Business Entity Assumption

* Accounting Period

* Historical Cost Concept

* Full Disclosure Principle

* Cost Principle

* Matching Principle

* Materiality

* Monetary Unit Assumption.

The fixed cost per unit decreases when volume increases is the correct statement regarding fixed costs.