CHAPTER FIVE: SPECIAL ISSUES FOR MERCHANTS
ACCOUNTING JOURNALS
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10/2/2015
If the Medical Supply Company uses a cash receipts journal, a cash payments journal, a sales journal, a purchases journal, and a general journal. I will like to know what cash receipts journal, a cash payments journal, a sales journal, a purchases journal, and a general journal is.
A Cash Receipts Journal (CRJ) is used to record all the cash received from customers, debtors, et al.
Date Account Credited Post. Ref. Credit Card Expense
DR Accounts Receivable
CR Sales
CR Sales Tax Payable
CR Other Accounts
CR
A Cash Payments Journal or Cash Disbursement Journal (CPJ/CDJ) is used to record all the
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It only involves trading or manufacturing that purchases inventories on account and lastly;
Date Vendor Invoice # Invoice Date Terms Post. Ref. Accounts Payable
CR Freight In
DR Purchases
DR
A General Journal (GJ) is said to be a sequential daily recording of activities such as buying and selling in an organisation either on debit or on credit as they occur. It is also referred to as the book of original entry.
Date Accounts and Description Debit Credit Debit Credit
Therefore, knowing the definition of all the above, it will be easy to determine which journal the following transactions should be recorded:
A. Payment of Property Taxes: This is a disbursement of property taxes paid out by Medical Supply Company based on property assessment by the government and it will be recorded under the Cash Payment Journal by Dr Property tax and Cr
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The new system works in this way. First, the order is received by SAP either from a customer EDI transmission or a field sales representative. For orders that are free from errors, SAP books the cleared orders, allocates the inventory based on availability and in-stock levels, issues a delivery note for cleared orders and sends a note to 3PL partners for transportation. Another use of the software is order bundling. As individual customers send purchase orders, the software used can track delivery request dates to combine orders for shipping.
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Once the item is received, the purchase order is forwarded to the accounts payable office with receipt documentation. There the purchase order information is once again re-typed into the accounting software to process payment. For a purchase of any item over the price of $250 there are three different times the same information gets recorded. There are much more modern accounting systems today where the information and be input into a computerized requisition program, and automatically forwarded to the different offices for approval. The programs can also automatically generate a purchase order and automatically generate payment information for the accounts payable office.
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