Sales Invoices Double Entry

Sales have a credit balance in the Trial Balance Sales are the delivery or exchange of services or products for a payment from another party. Every business is involved in the delivery of at least one service or involved in the sale of at least one product.   Sales are categorised as Cash Sales or Credit Sales. The sales figure in the trial balance is made up of an accumulation of all the net sales amount that would have occurred in an accounting period. This can be visualized from the illustration to follow. Sales have a credit balance in the Trial Balance

Imagine you work for J&N Ltd, a company that sells kitchen utensils Imagine you work for J&N Ltd, a company that sells kitchen utensils. The following two Sales Invoices were dealt with in the accounting period.

Double Entry treatment In accounting for these sales invoices, you will realise that there is an Increase in Sales Increase in VAT owed to HMRC Increase in debtors, since the customers have not yet paid

Hence, the double entry posting will be: Dr: Debtors Cr: Sales Cr: VAT

DEAD/ CLIC DEAD stands for: Debit Expenses Assets Drawings DEBIT TRANSACTIONS If any of these are increasing, you will need to debit the account CLIC stands for: Credit Liabilities Income Capital CREDIT TRANSACTIONS If any of these are increasing, you will need to credit the account

Trial Balance Dr Cr £ Sales 4,216.50 VAT 843.30 Debtors 5,059.80 Totals The total of the debit must equal the total of the credit in a trial balance. This trial balance has been set on the assumption that this is a new business which had only two sales transactions in the accounting period and the customers have not paid for the invoices.

This shows that: Sales Income (CLIC) was credited with the TOTAL NET AMOUNT VAT Liability (CLIC) was credited with the TOTAL VAT AMOUNT Debtors Asset (DEAD) was debited with the TOTAL GROSS AMOUNT

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