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Financial Accounting Documents

Preparation


  • Financial accounting documents must be prepared in accordance with regulations, International Accounting Standards (IAS), and by-laws of the legal person.

Control


  • Before entering into account books, financial accounting documents must be controlled for formal, substantive, and computational correctness.
  • Corrections to text or numbers on financial accounting documents should not cast doubt on their credibility. A correction should be done with a strikethrough by the person who issued the document and certified by their signature.

Account Books

Purpose


  • Account books are uniform records of assets, liabilities, equity, realized incomes, and expenditures.

Content


  • Account books must be kept based on the double-entry bookkeeping system, respecting principles of neatness, real-time processing, document content, and credibility.
  • Types of account books include:
    • Journal
    • General Ledger
    • Subsidiary Ledgers

Journal

Purpose


  • A journal is a business record for entering business events in chronological order.

Content


  • Transactions are recorded on analytical accounts whose contents correspond to the statutory framework chart of accounts.

General Ledger

Purpose


  • The general ledger includes pre-prepared accounts that provide information for annual financial statements.

Types


  • General ledger records include:
    • Balance sheet items
    • Income statement items
    • Off-balance sheet events

Subsidiary Ledgers

Separate Keeping


  • Subsidiary ledgers should be kept separately.

Content


  • Subsidiary ledgers may include:
    • Cash transactions
    • Incoming invoices
    • Outgoing invoices
    • Foreign exchange
    • Checks issued
    • Promissory notes payable
    • Stock register
    • Stake register

Keeping Account Books

Principle of Occurrence


  • Information must be entered into account books on the principle of occurrence of business events.

Credible Accounting Documents


  • Account books should be opened at the beginning of the business year based on previous year’s balance sheet or opening balance sheet.