Expenses payable

Can we book expenses payable or prepaid exp. In school/ trust accounting?

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This discussion clarifies how schools and trusts handle prepaid expenses and expenses payable, particularly when following the mercantile accounting system. While cash-based systems record expenses upon payment, the mercantile system requires matching expenses to the period they are incurred. This means accounting for items like annual maintenance contracts (AMCs) or telephone bills that span across financial years or are paid in a subsequent period. The advice suggests creating provision accounts for such expenses to accurately reflect them in the correct financial year.

YES IT PERTAINS IN MATCHING PRINCIPAL OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Follow mercantile accounting system
Yes, you can if following mercantile system

Method of accounting for an education trust is cash system. You should accounted the expenses and Income when they are paid/ received so there are no journal entries. Receipt & payment account and Income & expenditure account are the final accounts (instead of Trading & Profit Loss account). you should maintain : Cash book Ledger  Fees register Salary Register other register as per requirement.  
 

Dear Rama Sir

but how to treat AMC which is from july'21 to June'22 because from july to march is current year exp. & from april to june'22 is for next year. same as telephone exp. which is payable in march but we paid it on april or may?

 

debit the telelphone charges also as and when you pay 

Create an provision account of AMC and book expensive when it will incurred

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