Accounting and Finance Questions

A cheque is basically issued by an individual but a draft is issued by a bank. In a demand draft you have to pay before issuing while a check is withdrawn from the account.

Bad loans in banking terminology are generally known as NPA's. A Non - performing Asset (NPA) is defined as a credit facility in respect of which the interest and installment of principal have remained 'past due' for a specified period of time.

The Payroll source documents are the employee Time Sheets (or equivalent) that record when the employee worked and generally what they did. These records are subject to audit by the Labor Department, EEOC and probably others that I haven't encountered. These should be bound into a Payroll Source Document folder.

However, there are other employee documents that need to be retained, e.g., their original employment application, employee reviews (if you do them),that record their federal/state tax exemption choices,reporting their annual wages and withholdings, etc.

These can be filed in separate Employee files (by employee name or number) -- or simply integrated into the Payroll Source Document folders (in the week in which they occur). I very much favor the latter -- especially if you're doing computer accounting -- in keeping with my "always file chronological" bias.

Employee Travel and Expense Report (ETER ) / Direct Pay / Unencumbered Goods and Services

- The ETER is examined for compliance with Travel policy by the accounting clerk prior to submission to Accounts payable

- Accounts Payable enters ETER Information into Banner as a Direct pay, generates a Banner invoice number, and records invoice information

- Reimbursement checks for ETERs will be processed within five business days after a completed and correct ETER is received by Accounts payable and scheduled for payment in the payment cycle following.

- ETERs should be submitted within  60 calendar days of incurring the expenses. TEARs submitted for expenses older than two months will not be processed nor reimbursed.

ACH stands for Automated Clearing House, which is an electronic transfer of funds between banks or financial institutions.

As per the provisions of Section 12 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the minimum ratio should be 4:2:1.

A key functional area of SAP for Utilities that supports cross-company exchange of settlement data based on international standards such as EDI, XML, and Microsoft Excel.

Intercompany data exchange manages data transfer between retailers, distributors, and independent service operators with special regard to the requirements in deregulated markets.

The open items of an account can only be cleared once you post an identical offsetting amount to the account. In other words, the balance of the items assigned to each other must equal zero.During clearing, the system enters a clearing document number and the clearing date in these items. In this way, invoices in a vendor account are indicated as paid, and items in a bank clearing account are indicated as cleared.

You generally use the payment program to clear invoices. Manual clearing of open items is therefore not usually necessary. However, you will sometimes have to clear items manually if, for example, you receive a refund from your vendor or you have set up a direct debit procedure.