If your business extends credit to its customers, charging and collecting interest is well within your right. Most businesses with account receivables don't charge interest unless payment is really ...

Under the accrual basis of accounting, you must record revenues and expenses in the accounting period in which they were earned or incurred, regardless of when payment occurs. An adjusting entry is a ...

Auditors know that journal-entry testing is one of many procedures they can use in addressing client data completeness and, hence, audit risk (see AU-C Section 240, Consideration of Fraud in a ...

A “Download” window will open in Excel letting you know that your document is in the process of being created. Click the “Close” button once the Journal Entry template has finished downloading into ...

A journal entry is used to record an accounting transaction in the general ledger. Workday Finance replaced Financial Edge as our general ledger system effective January 1, 2024. Please note that ...

Auditors can use Benford’s Law to identify general ledger irregularities — both those that can indicate fraud and those that do not. In this article, I introduce audit data analytics techniques that ...

Tracking your company’s spending is essential for maintaining accurate financial records. One financial accounting method businesses use is the payroll journal entry. Payroll journal entries record ...