Accounting and Finance Questions

Most modern banking systems are based on Fractional reserves.

Fractional-reserve banking is the practice whereby a bank accepts deposits, makes loans or investments, but is required to hold reserves equal to only a fraction of its deposit liabilities. Reserves are held as currency in the bank, or as balances in the bank's accounts at the central bank.

1. In a fractional reserve banking system banks can create money through the lending process.

2. A fractional reserve banking system is susceptible to bank panics.

3. Bank panics are a risk of fractional reserve banking, but are unlikely when banks are highly regulated and lend prudently.

Disinvestment is the action of an organization or government selling or liquidating an asset or subsidiary.

Tax Collected at Source (TCS) is income tax collected in India payable by the seller who collects in turn from the buyer and it is provided under section 206C of Income Tax Act, 1961 at the sale of some goods which are specified.

E - TCS  is the process of filing TCS returns through electronic media. It is necessary for government and corporate collectors to file TCS returns in its electronic form. Collectors (other than government) have the provision to file TCS returns in physical form or electronic form.

Federal Bank has obtained RBI approval to open representative offices at Kuwait and Singapore.

The bank has been the preferred banker for NRI's and the NRI friendly measures have resulted in increasing inflow of foreign remittances.

The bank already has its representative offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and it has tied up with 110+ overseas banks/remittance partners.

Accountants... in big organization there will be a department to maintain AR department.

A loss (or losses) from previous years carried forward in order to offset future earnings. This reduces the tax burden for the years with profit as the accumulated losses are deducted from the taxable profit.

Time periods you define to age your debit items. Aging buckets are used in the Aging reports to see both current and outstanding debit items. For example you can define an aging bucket that includes all debit items that are 1 to 30 days past due.

Normal table used for this Report is < 30 days 30-60 days 60-90 days 90-180 days and >180 days