Fundamentals of Basic Accounting Aliling
Fundamentals of Basic Accounting Aliling
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Prepared by, shows the responsibility company cashier, who will then
of the person who prepared the acknowledge and issue the official
voucher. receipt.
Checked by, accuracy of the Some companies uses provisional
transaction and the journal entry receipt if the payment made by the
prepared. customer is in form of check. When
Approved by, shows that the journal the check collection is deposited and
entry is now approved for entry in cleared with the bank, an official
books of account. receipt will be issued.
* Cash receipt book contains all the cash It is considered as temporary receipt.
received by the business entity and Cannot be considered as good
journalized in cash receipt voucher. The evidence to be kept.
cash receipt voucher serves as control OFFICIAL RECEIPT
measure of accounting officers so that no Name of business enterprise, address,
transactions will be recorded by the and proprietor.
accounting staff without an approved cash TIN, for control procedures of the BIR.
receipt voucher.* Amount, must be written in words and
in figures. Also the nature of the
Trial balance payment.
- it is the list of account titles in the ledger Form of payment (cash, bank deposit,
with their corresponding balances. It does check collection)
not demonstrate whether the accounts are Signature of the authorized person to
correct or not, but whether all accounts are accept collection.
transferred correctly to the ledger Control number, can be written
Trial balance of totals- listing the account anywhere.
title found in the ledger and getting the total Transaction Analysis
of each debit and credit to be written in the ACCOUNT TITLE- Word used to describe
debit and credit column of the trial balance. the transaction.
Trial balance of balances- Get the CHART OF ACCOUNTS- list of account
difference between the debit and credit, and titles used by business enterprises to describe
place the differences under the column their transactions.
(debit or credit) having the greater value.
ASSET ACCOUNT- Resources controlled
Business forms and Documents by the entity as a result of past transactions
SALES INVOICE or events and from which future economic
Also called Cash sales invoice, charge benefits are expected to flow to the entity.
invoice, or service invoice. It CASH- Generic Account
documents the services rendered or the CASH ON HAND- Money or cash
commodities sold by the customer. substitutes representing the collection of the
All information can be located at the company awaiting deposit to the company’s
option of the designing accountant. depository bank the following day.
Other information can also be CASH IN BANK- Money of the company
incorporated in the invoice depending that is in the bank awaiting payment.
on the need of the business enterprise. CASH IN FUND- A fund intended to
PROVISIONAL RECEIPT pay petty expenses.
Similar to the official receipt; only
difference is the collectors issue the
document upon arriving at the office
and endorse the collection to the
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CASH EQUIVALENT- Short-term INTEREST INCOME- Earned out of
investments made by the company. Only lending its money or depositing money with
accounts under 3 months maturity will a banking institution.
considered on this account. SALES- Merchandising type of business
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE- organization that is used in selling
Customers’ account arising from selling merchandise.
activities. Refers to a trade account SALES DISCOUNT- Cash discount given
receivables. to customers for setting their accounts on
NOTES RECEIVABLE- Collectible of the time.
company and is supported by promissory SALES RETURNS- Actual return made by
note. the customers.
MERCHANDISE INVENTORY- SALES ALLOWANCES- No actual return
Merchandise of the company intended for but to an allowance given instead, for the
sale in the course of its business operation. defective merchandise delivered.
PREPAYMENTS- Advance payment made
by the company. EXPENSES ACCOUNT- Decrease in
LAND economic benefit during the accounting
BUILDING period in the form of an outflow or decrease
FURNITURE AND FIXTURES in assets or increase in liability that results in
OFFICDE EQUIPMENTS decrease in equity, other than contribution
DELIVERY EQUIPMENT from equity participants. This will decrease
capital.
LIABILITY ACCOUNTS- Present PURCHASES- Merchandise purchase,
obligation of the entity arising from past which are intended for sale.
transactions or events the settlement of PURCHASE DISCOUNT- Discount given
which is expected to result in an outflow by merchandisers when you pay your
from the entity of resources embodying liabilities on time.
economic benefits. PURCHASE RETURNS- Return of
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE- Liability account merchandise to the suppliers.
of the company, arising from purchase of PURCHASE ALLOWANCES-
merchandise that is intended for sale. Allowances given by the supplier
NOTES PAYABLE- Liability accounts representing reduction of price for purchased
supported by a promissory note. merchandise.
SALARIES AND WAGES- Labor
CAPITAL ACCOUNT- Residual interest payments to employees.
in the assets of the entity after deducting all EMPLOYEE BENEFITS- Labor payments
its liabilities. to employees beside from basic payment that
CAPITAL- Capital account of the owner. are highly discretionary on part of employer.
WITHDRAWAL, Withdrawal made by the OFFICE SUPPLIES EXPENSE- Various
owner. office supplies used by the office.
REVENUE ACCOUNT- Increase in UTILITIES EXPENSE- Light, water,
economic benefit during the accounting telephone expenses.
period in the form of inflow or increase in RENT EXPENSE
assets or decrease in liability that results in ADVERTISING EXPENSE- Cost of
increase in equity, other than contribution promotion and advertising the product.
from equity participants. This will increase INSURANCE EXPENSE- Represents fire
capital. and burglary insurance of the various assets.
SERVICE INCOME- Render service in
order to earn an income like the services. INVESTMENT- Owner has transferred to
its business as a start up or additional.
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DEBIT Assets
Withdrawals
Expenses
CREDIT Liabilities
Investments
Revenues
Adjustments
ACCRUED EXPENSES- Expenses that are
already incurred but not yet paid by the
company.
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DEPRECIATION- Is the Systematic We are assured that we can start with the
allocation of the cost of an asset. The next accounting period in proper order and
straight line method is normally used in that debit is equal to credit.
computing the depreciation of an asset.
OBSERVATIONS
Last account title to be shown in this
statement must be capital account.
Accrued salaries and wages and
unearned service income are inserted
DOUBTFUL ACCOUNT- This is the among the current liabilities. This is
portion of the estimated collectible accounts done because the post closing trial
The estimate can be based on a percentage of balance must be arranged in
income, sales, or a percentage of accounts accordance with the accounting
receivables equation.
The capital is computed as:
Beginning Capital
Add: Net Income
Total
Less: Drawing
Ending Capital
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OUTSTANDING CHECKS- Checks
issued and released by the company to a
payee. Once the check is released, the check
can already be encashed or not encashed.
Financial Analysis
VERTICAL ANALYSIS- Comparison of
figures within the same accounting period. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS- Computing
Establishing relationship of the size of one percentages and ratios in the financial
account with the standard account to be statement has no significance at all if there is
compared. no interpretation, as well as
We want to know how big our cost of recommendations for improvement of what
sales is compared to our sales (cost of is considered weak areas in the operation.
sales divided by sales) Goal is to improve the weak areas, and
We want to know how big our gross therefore, build better control, protecting the
profit is compared to our sales (gross assets of the company
profit divided by sales)