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If supplier X has a credit balance, what is the entry to write off ?

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Question ajoutée par AJMAL - CMA , Chief Accountant , Metal Cube Metal Industry
Date de publication: 2019/03/12
Maria Elena Osio
par Maria Elena Osio , Accounts and Office Admininistrator , Pure Blue Real Estate/ H2O Pure Blue L.L.C.

Debit :  Accounts Payable

Credit:  Other Income

 

The cancellation of liability results in savings to the entity and should therefore be recognized as other income since the saving of cash outflows are not attained through the ordinary course of business operations.

Utilisateur supprimé
par Utilisateur supprimé

It may be a case/ possibility that payment to the supplier may not have been allocated accordingly to the creditors sub-ledger and may be lying elsewhere (suspense/ unallocated funds account). Therefore, an investigation would need to be carried out, perhaps through scrutiny of the trial balance. Once the corresponding entry is discovered, the two may be net off via journal.

Muhammad Saddique
par Muhammad Saddique , Finance Manager , Digital Future For Communication & IT

Supplier X (Dr)   xxx

             Other income A/C xxx

Mohamed Thrwat Fadll Ahmed Badran
par Mohamed Thrwat Fadll Ahmed Badran , مدير حسابات , مصنع عبدالرحمن عبدالله الحماد للبلاستيك

Why would you like to write off the balance?

The nature of the supplier account is that the balance is credit

You are asked to write off the balance. This means there is a difference between you and the supplier

 

 

The following must be reviewed:-

- Amount of invoices received from the supplier

- Payments to supplier

- Discounts granted by the supplier

 

After knowing the reason for the difference in account balances, you can identify the necessary treatment.

 

Jonathan  Pascua
par Jonathan Pascua , General Accountant , Al Hadaf Travel And Tourism

Debit - Bad debts Expense

Credit - To Supplier

Sunil Khandelwal
par Sunil Khandelwal , General Ledger Specialist , Ericsson Global India Pvt Ltd

P&L a/c Dr To supplier A/c