Credit Note for Discount Allowed

When a customer is given an invoice discount, a credit note needs to be issued to the customer to adjust the balance on the accounts receivable and to record the discount allowed in the income statement.

Last modified November 28th, 2019 by Michael Brown
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Customer Credit Note Issued

When a customer notices a mistake on an invoice before payment, then the business issues a credit note to reduce the amounting outstanding on the invoice prior to settlement.

Last modified November 27th, 2019 by Michael Brown
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Nonprofit Financial Statements

A nonprofit organization (NPO) is an organization that has no owners and which uses its net income to help it achieve the aims for which it was established. All surplus net income has to be kept within the organization, and not paid out as dividends or distributions.

There are three main not for profit financial statements, the statement of financial position, the statement of activities, and the statement of cash flows.

Last modified January 13th, 2021 by Michael Brown
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Aged Accounts Payable Report

The aged accounts payable report is a listing of outstanding balances by supplier, analyzed into difference age classifications based on the number of days a vendor invoice is overdue for payment.

Last modified February 14th, 2023 by Michael Brown
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What is Accounts Payable?

Accounts payable are amounts which are owed by you to your suppliers for the purchase of trade goods or services, they are sometimes referred to as trade payable or trade creditors.

Accounts payable are recorded in the balance sheet of the business under the heading of current liabilities, that means they are payable within a year.

Last modified January 23rd, 2020 by Michael Brown
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Aged Accounts Receivable

The aging of accounts receivable report is a listing of outstanding balances by customer, analyzed into difference age classifications based on the number of days a customer sales invoice is overdue for payment.

Last modified August 3rd, 2020 by Michael Brown
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Balance Sheet Analysis

Balance sheet ratio analysis can be carried out using ratios based on information contained within the balance sheet. Knowing how to analyze a balance sheet gives the reader a better understanding of a business, allows changes over time to be monitored, and allows comparisons of different businesses to be made.

Last modified December 20th, 2019 by Michael Brown
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Common Size Balance Sheet Calculator

The common size balance sheet shows each line of a standard balance sheet as a percentage of the total assets of a business.

This free Excel calculator produces a common size balance sheet from standard information taken from the balance sheet of a business.

Last modified July 16th, 2019 by Michael Brown
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Common Size Balance Sheet

A common size balance sheet is one that has an additional column showing each monetary amount as a percentage of the total assets of the business. The common size balance sheet is not required by Accounting Standards, and is used more as a management tool rather than a formal reporting document.

Last modified October 24th, 2022 by Michael Brown
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Assets Liabilities and Equity

There are three elements to a balance sheet, assets, liabilities, and equity. The three elements together must satisfy the accounting equation for the balance sheet to balance.

Last modified February 1st, 2023 by Michael Brown
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Unpaid Wages

Unpaid wages are wages which have been earned by an employee during an accounting period but which remain unpaid at the end of the accounting period.

Under the accruals basis of accounting an adjusting entry needs to be made to provide for the unpaid wages based on the hours worked and the wage rate.

Last modified January 8th, 2020 by Michael Brown
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Accounting for Insurance Proceeds

The accounting for insurance proceeds journal entries below act as a quick reference, and set out the double entry bookkeeping postings required to deal with an insurance claim for damaged inventory.

Last modified October 24th, 2019 by Michael Brown
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