Get Real! wrote:miltiades wrote:Paphitis wrote:
"So the vehicle becomes a legitimate expense. Everything from fuel, to maintenance, insurance."
The vehicle cost is an expenditure and not a P&L entry but a Balance sheet entry. The vehicles are added on to the companies assets, the fire NOT an expense.
That doesn’t sound right… assuming a DE system.
I thought the Balance Sheet was something you only did at the end of the financial year to see if the Debit vs Credit columns balanced!
And that when purchasing a company vehicle you credit the “delivery vans” or “vehicles” account and debit “cash”.
Ah well...
Financials are printed off every month.
At least that is what my book keeper does. They are automatically generated through a special software. This software does payroll, calculates Pay As You Go Salary Tax for staff as well as Super. Every 3 months, BAS Statements are lodged with the tax department and all the PAYG Tax is paid, all the VAT (GST) is paid, and all the Superannuation is paid into a Federal Reserve Clearing account for dispersal.
Payroll is also automatically done through a specially generated DAT File which is uploaded to the Bank for release of payments to staff at a specific time and report it to the Tax Department. The Book Keeper and Accountants have a special log in to our internet banking, to record every single transaction there is. Even tiny transactions. They have special watch and observe permissions only but they can see all transactions. They log in at least every second day.
Balance sheets are also generated as well as stock reports and so on.
Accountant finalizes all the statements and financials.
Book keeper enters all the purchases and dissects all supply chain statements and arranges for payment of accounts which are aged accordingly. And also provides a list of account payments to creditors.
So in effect, you know what your profit or loss is each month.
NBow all this stuff can get awfully complicated depending on how you are structured.