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Hello sorry in the part of writting of bad debts i didnot get you clear you said in ledger you are supposed to credit the debtorrs account na debit the bad debts account what about the sales account if it was a sale of a good on credit wont you debit it also??
You don't have to debit the sales account. Why? Because during presentation of the financial statements, bad debts will appear in the expenses. Expenses reduce sales remember...((Sales - cost of sales) - expenses = net profit)). So if we debited the sales, then again included bad debts in the expenses in our income statement, it would mean that the bad debts have been deducted from the sales figure twice, which would be wrong. So, yes, the bad debts written off shall be deducted from the sales figure but this is not done by debiting the sales account in the ledger but rather it is done at the point of presentation of the income statement, when the bad debts are listed in the expenses. I hope this clears the confusion.
In Ledgers, you open the individual account (Debtor Katagwa) because in most cases you have more than one debtor and so it's important you open their separate accounts for purposes of tracking their credit history and performance. However at the time of preparing the trial balance, then all debtors can be consolidated and so you put the summation of all your debtors as one figure in the trial balance.
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You mean a Cash transaction can't go in general journal
the general journal equivalent for cash transactions is the cash book
Hello sorry in the part of writting of bad debts i didnot get you clear you said in ledger you are supposed to credit the debtorrs account na debit the bad debts account what about the sales account if it was a sale of a good on credit wont you debit it also??
You don't have to debit the sales account. Why? Because during presentation of the financial statements, bad debts will appear in the expenses. Expenses reduce sales remember...((Sales - cost of sales) - expenses = net profit)). So if we debited the sales, then again included bad debts in the expenses in our income statement, it would mean that the bad debts have been deducted from the sales figure twice, which would be wrong. So, yes, the bad debts written off shall be deducted from the sales figure but this is not done by debiting the sales account in the ledger but rather it is done at the point of presentation of the income statement, when the bad debts are listed in the expenses. I hope this clears the confusion.
But I have a question,in ledgers do you open an account as katagwa or the account is debtors ac since he's a debtor
In Ledgers, you open the individual account (Debtor Katagwa) because in most cases you have more than one debtor and so it's important you open their separate accounts for purposes of tracking their credit history and performance. However at the time of preparing the trial balance, then all debtors can be consolidated and so you put the summation of all your debtors as one figure in the trial balance.
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