A business mistakenly recorded a Rs 5 lakh sale in FY 2011-2012 to the wrong party. They are seeking advice on how to correct this accounting error and whether it will cause issues with Income Tax. The suggested solution involves passing a journal entry to credit the incorrect party and debit the correct one, with assurances that this should not pose problems for Income Tax purposes. However, a question was raised about why this oversight wasn't detected by auditors for several years.
11 June 2021
We made sales to a party in 2011-2012 of which one sale of Rs5 lakhs was entered into partys AC by mistake. Now the mistake have been found. The sale of 5 lakhs was made to other parties during that period. How can we rectify now this mistake? Pl advise? Will there be any issues from Income Tax?