Accounting and Finance Questions

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.

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.

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 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

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.

Supplier should follow the check list.

1. He should create confidence in the client mind
2. Services to be done (fulfilled in time)
3. Services to be done according the specification of the client
4. He should be placed the another order by doing the above three steps

Variance Report is to know what is the difference between last month salary and the current month salary you can also check in that report all input which you have considered its captured or not