Contents
- Getting Started
- Quick Start Guide
- Video Tutorials
- Operating Procedure Templates
- Sales
- Operations
- Sales Plans
- Requirements
- Job Cards
- Complete Works Order
- Pick Sales Orders
- Dispatch and Invoice
- Customer Receipts
- Send Purchase Orders
- Create Purchase Orders
- Receive Goods and Create GRN
- Process a Stock Invoice
- Process a Supplier Invoice
- Supplier Payments
- Create a Supplier Account
- Create a Stock and Order Item
- Manufactured Items
- Suppliers Tab
- Ad-hoc Purchases
- Expenses and Cash Purchases
- Payroll
- Frequently Asked Questions
- What should I do with my bank statements?
- How do I account for factoring?
- What should I do with supplier statements?
- How do I claim Expenses?
- When should I use Expense Claims rather than payments from a Director’s Loan account?
- How do I reclaim the cost of using my car on company business?
- Do I always have to create an Employee account?
- Which PAYE Tax Code should I be using for my employee payroll?
- Which National Insurance Category should I be using for my employee payroll?
- What is RTI?
- How do I check my VAT Return?
- When do I use Cash Sales rather than a normal invoice?
- How do I delete a sales order that is part complete?
- Do I credit or refund?
- How do I transact a VAT only purchase invoice or credit?
- Which Bank Account do I use?
- When do I use Asset Items?
- Which Customer VAT Type and Stock Item VAT Rate should I use?
- Implementation Support and Training
- Business Planning & Cashflow
- Part 1 Basic Principles
- Starting Up
- Starting Up – continued
- Starting Up – continued (2)
- Key Points
- The Matching Principle
- The Matching Principle continued
- The Prudence Concept
- Cash vs Profit
- Cash vs Profit continued
- Cash vs Profit continued (2)
- Cash vs Profit continued (3)
- Cash vs Profit continued (4)
- Cash vs Profit continued (5)
- Part 2 Pricing, Variable & Fixed Costs, and Simple Breakeven
- Part 3 Working Capital
- Part 4 Investment Appraisal and Simple Payback
- Part 1 Basic Principles
- Guide to ERP Software
If Joe sells his products in period 1, but agrees to deliver half in period 1, and
the rest in period 2, then:
Is it reasonable to say that the Business made a profit of £1,000 in the first period?
The Matching Principal has been applied so isn’t this OK?
No, the Prudence Concept says that we have not delivered the product or service and therefore cannot take the benefit into our accounts – if the Business fails before the final delivery is made, Joe will have to give “credit” for the products not delivered, so taking all the benefit in period 1 is overstating the profit to date.
Prudence obliges us to take a conservative view of our Businesses, anticipating costs, but never anticipating profits!
So the correct treatment would be:
What is the Stock figure in the Balance Sheet at the end of Period 1?
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