Finance IT & Accounting
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Originally posted by : vijaya kumar n |
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Dear all,
We purchase a one Stabilizer (office equipment), but we lost the bill and also we cant get the duplicate bill from the party. Now what we have to do for passing entry and also for Auditing purpose????????
Thanks & Regards,
Vijay |
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You have the following options before you:
1. You can request the seller to give a photocopy of his Purchase registry entry/bill for your sake and then get it certified as duplicate copy for your audit purpose sake.Im sure he would oblige.
2. You can request another copy of the bill and if he is willing to do,you can mention it as a duplicate bill(and quote reason:Here it is "Bill missing/lost"
3. Since according to audit materiality,this item is a low-cost item,you can ignore it.
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Notes: If you however,threaten him to take back the stabilizer if he does not supply you a duplicate bill,it might work against you as you have no locusstandi to prove that he sold you the Stabilizer.So, it wont hold good in the court of law or even in a consumer court.
There is no need to reverse entries,infact doing such things is not advisable because as per Accounting principles/concepts,we have to account for everything we have spent/recieve or promise to spend/recieve(accrual concept) and accounting entries dont keep auditing in mind when entries are being made.
Auditing is primarily a post-mortem job and a future event.You have to reverse entry legally and technically only if there is an error in primal or inchoatory entry.