A peculier Case- Need assistance

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Dear Professionals,

My respects to you, and I am in need of  your guidance in this peculier case.

Being a senior accountant of a reputed company in Angola, I wish to state the following:-

  • Ours is an FMCG company, having 35 shops and 5 godowns in its distribution chain.
  • All the receipts of goods are made in a main godown and getting distributed to shops and other godowns as per the market requirements.
  • While going through the earlier accounts the distribution style was as under.
  1. Each Shop was considered as a customer and the transfers were made by  invoicing at the selling rate.
  2. The cash sales made by each shop was credited to shops account and any fluctuation in prices were given with due effects by passing Debit note or Credit note to get make the receivable amount in tact.
  3. At the end of the year, the Physical Inventory was ascertained, and VALUED AS PER THE LAST PURCHASE COST.
  4. The value of the inventory was accounted as follows:

                 Dr. Closing Stock Shops A/c xxxxxx (An account created under sundry debtors for this entry)

                 Cr. Shop's A/c xxxxx (An account kept as sundry debtors).

  • THE CLOSING STOCK OF THE MAIN WARE HOUSE WAS CARRIED OVER AS OPENING STOCK FOR THE NEXT YEAR AND WHICH WAS CONSIDERED FOR P& L PURPOSES.
  • THE STOCK WHICH WAS KEPT UNDER SUNDRY DEBTORS WAS ACCOUNTED AS PURCHASES IN THE NEXT YEAR TO SQUARE OFF THE DEBTORS ACCOUNT AND TO INCREASE THE STOCK.

Kindly guide me, how to consider the above said stock in P&L.

Regards

 

Panchapagesan.J

 

     

 

 

Replies (2)

Put this in the Expert Column Section Sir.. U will get response in a day.

1) the shop wise debtors account is direct proportionate to stock in hand by shop, so you have to show return inward ( sales return) to square off the debtors at 31st march every year, which will make the shops zero position and on next day . i.e 1st april issue the same to shops. this will rationalize the VAT procedures as the purchase from own shops will not make u eligible for vat credit, by virtue of book entry but return inward will make u comfortable to adjust the VAT input and output. best to take such steps at end of every quarter / half year.  

 

2) if the goods are exisable and u have to pass the excise also to clients ( whcih is irrelevant in case of FMCG) then u have to take the accounts quarter wise on end of quarter.

3) carry on the stock of shops is alternate as the debtors account shop wise is stock in shops, so without such accounting entries also u can carry the business. 

 

however i feel that 1) above is suitable remedy to make zero the shops account at end of year. 


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