Purchase return recorded as sales.

While auditing i found that , HO sales goods to its branches through a sales tax invoice and records sales and branch records purchase.
At year end the stock which is unsold at year end at branch level is sent back to HO for that they make sales tax invoice to HO and record it as sales and HO records it as purchase. Is this treatment correct?? In my opinion HO should make credit note for the same and record it as sale return whereas branch should record it as purchase return !!!


note : HO and branch are in different states
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A user is questioning the accounting treatment where unsold stock returned from a branch to the Head Office (HO) is recorded as a sale by the branch and a purchase by the HO. The user believes this should be treated as a sales return and purchase return, respectively, especially since the HO and branch are in different states. While this might not impact net profit or the balance sheet directly, it can inflate sales figures and is generally considered incorrect practice.

Branch being in different state, & for ease of GST calculations, there is no harm in such procedure. There is no tax concealment.

But for Balance sheet purpose , is this correct ? isnt it means inflating the sales

Though the practice is not correct, but for some reason followed somewhere, probably at the end of the year. Though there want be any difference in net profit or in BS, but TO gets inflated marginally.

In protest against ADMIN for its discriminatory behavior among different members, I leave the portal permanently.  Good Bye.  

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