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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.