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Few Quick Real Life Accounting Questions.

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  • August 3, 2014 at 3:32 pm #180612
    Toni
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    Hello,

    How does the REAL world work? The Starting Point?

    For Example

    1) Company X wants to buy some books from Company D .

    Who raises the invoice?

    What is it a Sales invoice or a Purchase invoice? Or Purchase order etc??

    In real life what happens? Like the ACTUAL Cycle?

    and Vice versa if we sell something to company D

    Thank You very much

    August 3, 2014 at 6:54 pm #180635
    John Moffat
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    The real world is the same as the exam world in this respect 🙂

    If X wishes to buy goods from D, they will order them from D (and might send to D a purchase order on paper – but this is not recorded in the accounts).

    When D supplies the goods, D issues an invoice. It is always the seller who prepares the invoice.
    Now then…….as far as D is concerned it is a ‘sales invoice’ and it will have ‘sales invoice’ typed on it (and D will record it in their accounts as a sale).

    However when X receives it, they will call it a Purchase invoice (and will file it in a file called purchase invoices), because they have purchased goods. They will record it in their accounts as a purchase.

    (If we sell something to D, then it is exactly the same as above, but changing D and X round 🙂 )

    Hope that makes sense 🙂

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