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“Sales & Purchase Ledgers” in Accounting & Finance

83 questions across 2 technologies.

Accounting & Finance

83 questions in 2 technologies

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1Why are the sales and purchases ledgers called memorandum (subsidiary) ledgers? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
2What documents update the sales and purchases ledgers? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
3What is a contra between the sales and purchases ledgers (set-off)? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
4What is the sales ledger? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
5What is the purchases ledger? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
6What is the difference between the sales ledger and the sales account? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
7What is a purchase invoice checked against before posting? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
8How is a customer's account in the sales ledger written up? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
9How is a supplier's account in the purchases ledger written up? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
10How do you deal with a credit balance in the sales ledger? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
11How do you account for an irrecoverable (bad) debt in the sales ledger? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersAdvanced
12How do you reconcile the sales ledger to the sales ledger control account? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersAdvanced
13How do you handle a supplier statement reconciliation in the purchases ledger? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersAdvanced
14What is a debtor and a creditor? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
15What is a statement of account sent to customers? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
16What is accounts receivable and accounts payable? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
17What is a credit customer versus a cash customer? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersBeginner
18What is an aged receivables (debtors) analysis and why is it used? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
19How is a refund to a customer or from a supplier recorded? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
20How is an early-settlement discount received from a supplier recorded? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
21How do you record goods taken by the owner from inventory (drawings in kind)? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
22What is the difference between the memorandum ledger balance and the control account balance? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
23How do you record interest charged to a slow-paying customer? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersIntermediate
24How do you account for a provision (allowance) for doubtful debts affecting receivables? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersAdvanced
25How is VAT bad-debt relief handled when writing off a receivable? Bookkeeping › Sales & Purchase LedgersBookkeepingSales & Purchase LedgersAdvanced
26What are the sales returns and purchases returns day books? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
27What is the normal balance of the sales and purchases ledger control accounts? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsBeginner
28How do you post the sales day book to the ledgers? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryIntermediate
29What is the sales day book and what is recorded in it? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
30What is the purchases day book? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
31How is VAT recorded on a sales invoice in the books? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsBeginner
32How is VAT recorded on a purchase invoice in the books? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsBeginner
33How do you post the purchases returns day book? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryIntermediate
34What entries appear in the sales ledger control account? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
35What entries appear in the purchases ledger control account? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
36How is a bad debt written off reflected in the sales ledger control account? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
37How do dishonoured cheques appear in the sales ledger control account? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
38How is refund to a customer shown in the sales ledger control account? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
39How do you correct a purchase invoice posted to the wrong supplier account? Bookkeeping › Correcting ErrorsBookkeepingCorrecting ErrorsIntermediate
40What are books of prime entry? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
41What is a source document and why is it important? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
42What is an invoice and what key details does it contain? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
43What is a credit note and when is it issued? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
44What is the difference between returns inwards and returns outwards? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
45What is the difference between a single, two, and three-column cash book? Bookkeeping › Cash Book & Petty CashBookkeepingCash Book & Petty CashBeginner
46What is a control account? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsBeginner
47What is the purpose of control accounts? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsBeginner
48Where do the figures for the control accounts come from? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsBeginner
49Can a control account have both a debit and a credit balance? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsBeginner
50What is the difference between a control account and a personal account? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsBeginner
51What is an error of commission? Bookkeeping › Correcting ErrorsBookkeepingCorrecting ErrorsBeginner
52What is a ledger? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryBeginner
53What is a two-column versus three-column difference in one line? Bookkeeping › Cash Book & Petty CashBookkeepingCash Book & Petty CashBeginner
54What is the difference between the SLCA and PLCA in one line each? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsBeginner
55Why are control accounts prepared by someone other than the ledger clerk? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsBeginner
56What is a credit transfer (bank giro) received? Bookkeeping › Bank ReconciliationBookkeepingBank ReconciliationBeginner
57What is VAT and how does it work? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsBeginner
58What are the main VAT rates? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsBeginner
59How is VAT recorded in the books of prime entry? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryIntermediate
60What is a trade discount and how is it treated in the day books? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryIntermediate
61What is a remittance advice and how does it relate to the books of prime entry? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryIntermediate
62How do discounts allowed and received appear in the three-column cash book? Bookkeeping › Cash Book & Petty CashBookkeepingCash Book & Petty CashIntermediate
63How does a control account help detect errors? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
64What is a control account reconciliation? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
65Why is a control account a form of internal control? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
66What is the effect of a discount allowed on the control accounts? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
67What is the treatment of cash discounts versus the cash received in the cash book? Bookkeeping › Cash Book & Petty CashBookkeepingCash Book & Petty CashIntermediate
68What is teeming and lading and how do control accounts help detect it? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsIntermediate
69How do you reconcile a control account in accounting software? Bookkeeping › Computerized BookkeepingBookkeepingComputerized BookkeepingIntermediate
70What is the difference between zero-rated and exempt supplies? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsIntermediate
71What information must a valid VAT invoice contain? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsIntermediate
72What is the VAT cash accounting scheme? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsIntermediate
73How do bad debts affect cash receipts in the cash budget? Budgeting & Forecasting › Cash BudgetingBudgeting & ForecastingCash BudgetingIntermediate
74How are settlement discounts reflected in the cash budget? Budgeting & Forecasting › Cash BudgetingBudgeting & ForecastingCash BudgetingIntermediate
75How does a settlement (cash) discount get recorded compared with a trade discount? Bookkeeping › Books of Prime EntryBookkeepingBooks of Prime EntryAdvanced
76How do you record dishonoured (bounced) cheques in the cash book? Bookkeeping › Cash Book & Petty CashBookkeepingCash Book & Petty CashAdvanced
77How is a contra/set-off recorded in the control accounts? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsAdvanced
78How does an omitted discount received affect the PLCA reconciliation? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsAdvanced
79How does a contra entry affect both control accounts and the reconciliations? Bookkeeping › Control AccountsBookkeepingControl AccountsAdvanced
80What is the reverse charge and when does it apply? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsAdvanced
81What is partial exemption and how does it affect input VAT recovery? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsAdvanced
82How is VAT bad-debt relief claimed and recorded? Bookkeeping › VAT RecordsBookkeepingVAT RecordsAdvanced
83How do you model a debtors/receivables collection profile with multiple months? Budgeting & Forecasting › Cash BudgetingBudgeting & ForecastingCash BudgetingAdvanced