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Cash Goes Up; What Goes Down?

Forums › Other Accountancy Qualifications Forums › Cash Goes Up; What Goes Down?

  • This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 11 years ago by Bizres.
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  • January 18, 2014 at 7:14 am #154164
    Bizres
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    Hello,

    I’m new to accounting (just begun studying) and am trying to put in all 2013 transactions for my small business into an accounting software (Wave Accounting). The software is based on double-entry book-keeping.

    I can add all the expenses into the journal – that’s not a problem.

    My question however is to do with invoices that I issued and rayments I’ve received against those invoices.
    I can record money coming in against an invoice as Cash going up. But on the other hand, what account would go down?

    Thanks in anticipation.

    January 18, 2014 at 11:16 am #154168
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    As a simple example, when you invoice somebody or a company for a sale, the double entry is:

    Dr: Debtor account
    Cr: Sales Account

    When the invoice is paid:

    Dr Bank/cash
    Cr Debtor account

    So, as you can see, the Debtor account goes down to reflect the fact the person/company no longer owes the money because they have paid the invoice.

    January 19, 2014 at 5:32 am #154171
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    We would suggest, that you download F3 course notes and listen to lectures
    https://opentuition.com/acca/f3/acca-f3-lectures/

    everything should be clearer then 🙂

    good luck

    January 29, 2014 at 8:24 pm #154614
    Bizres
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    Thanks very much, Fidget & Opentution_team.

    Everything is much clearer now.

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