Introduction to Control Accounts

Reconciling all sub-ledgers to the general ledger for accurate interpretation of the business activity. For example, Accounts Payable Aging Report will be compared to the General ledger for the Accounts Payable account. The auditor must scan future payable transactions to see if they affect the current company outcome.

Accounts payable - The management of debt incurred and not yet paid. All invoices, statements and operational expenses are included.

* Documents used: customer order, sales order, shipping document, sales invoice, sales journal, remittance advice, bank deposit list, cash receipts jornal, credit memo, sales return and allowance journal, uncollectable account authorization form, a/r master file, a/r trail balance, monthly statement

1.3 Before going to the next account, let’s analyze the Accounts Payable account closer. This account is special. Look at the Control data tab

1. The Allowance for uncollectible accounts currently has a credit balance of $900. After analyzing the accounts in the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger, the company's management estimates that uncollectible accounts will be $15,000. What will be the amount of uncollectible accounts expense reported on the income statement?

Accounts Receivable, Other Receivables, Allowance for Doubtful Accounts, Bad Debt ExpenseInventories and Reserve for Inventory Obsolescence

The entries used to record the disposition when the receivables are sold to a factor often detail the cash received plus the service charge. The company can then balance their receivables account. When a credit card company records a credit card

16. All receipts, payments, transfers of funds, and balances of money held in the trust account for a client must be identified in a separate ledger account within the trust account in the name of that client

Accounts payables are short term debts a company owes to its creditors. Notes payables are usually written contracts and long term debts companies have promises to pay its creditors. Accrued expenses are recognized by a company before they are paid for. An example of this would be a tax bill received from the town or city the company is located in. While all of these are recognized as current liabilities on a company’s financial reports they are all recorded in different time frames. Account payables are recognized when they are incurred and the payment of them is also due at the same time. Where both Notes payables and Accrued expenses are shown in the current liabilities but are due at a future date

The total Accounts Receivable balance in the records of $4,752,257.70 was verified by setting a filter of

Account receivables accounts for purchases which consumers have not yet aid for. This takes cares of any losses that the firm might incur due to allowing credit to certain clients. Bad debts are recorded in the income statement and they represent the des which the company doesn’t expect to be paid back. The account

Note 1 refers to the significant accounting policies, something that relates a wide range of individual line items. For example, cash and cash equivalents refers to all highly liquid instruments with less than 3 months until maturity. Inventories "are stated at the lower of cost or market." There is nothing under Note 1 about receivables. The other notes highlight specific details about each of these balance sheet items.

d. Trace the date, check number, and amount of outstanding item – Occurrence & Completeness. (AU-C 315.A114 a.i-ii)

The process of recording and posting the effects of business transaction is done in a double entry t-form. The total dollar amount of debits must equal the total dollar amount of credits, with debits to the left and account credit to the right. Broken down, Assets = Liabilities + Stakeholder Equity. “Since debits increase assets, expense, and dividend accounts, they normally have debit balances. Conversely, because credits increase liability, capital stock, retained earnings, and revenue accounts, they normally have credit balances.”( Edwards, J. D., Hermanson, R.H., & Maher, M. W. (2011). p.84)

Assets in the financial statement are always required and show useful information to investors and understand where the information comes from. For instance, accounts receivable net which the organization does not expect to collect all of the money it is due from all patients and insurers, (Finkler, S.A., Ward, D.M. & Calabrese, I.D., 2013). The bad debts become about of the money due. Furthermore, accounts receivables, net represents gross charges less an allowance for poor debts, and many contractual allowances established with those third party payers. Typically, an example of a bad debt would show charges of a large sum of money delivered from a hospital. Then, the contractual allowances from