Financial accounting

Maintaining an accurate, up-to-date record of a firm's finances is essential to its operations and its success.

Balancing your bank account

When you enter records of money paid into and out of your bank account into the cash book, there is a delay of at least a couple of days until these transactions are cleared through the banking system and appear on your bank statement.

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Balancing your purchase (creditors) ledger

In a purchase ledger control account, the total outstanding invoices at the beginning of a period and invoices received during that period, less payments made for invoiced supplies, will give a balancing figure of invoices still outstanding at the end of the period - your creditors.

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Balancing your sales (debtors) control account

In a sales control account, the total of outstanding invoices at the beginning of the period and invoices raised during the period, less payments received for invoiced income, will give a balancing figure of invoices still outstanding at the end of the period - your debtors.

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18 May 12

Committee report sceptical of length of apprenticeships

MPs have criticised the length of apprenticeship programmes after a report found a fifth of apprenticeships lasted for six months or less.

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