Account Payable Account

by Evelyn
(New York)

Account Payable Account

Account Payable Account

How do you remove an account payable with a balance from a computer program? This account was entered in a business account. However, it is a personal account and should not have been included. To remove this account, I would have to debit it, but what account would I credit?

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Remove A/P Balance
by: Anonymous

I think you would debit A/P to decrease and remove the balance from Accounts Payable and you would credit Owners Draw to account for the personal transaction.

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Accounts Payable Balance Correction

by Arthur
(New Zealand)

Accounts Payable Balance

Accounts Payable Balance

My year end balance sheet for last year, shows accounts payable, a liability. This means that the expense for this liability has been taken in the past year, but of course the payment has not been made. How do I account for the payment of this liability, which of course will happen in the new year? I don't have an expense (since it has already been taken last year) to match the payment in this year. So when I credit my bank account, what is the debit account?

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A/P Balance Adjusting Entry
by: Anonymous

If you are using software such as QuickBooks, you can simply delete the outstanding invoice that has already been paid as it was posted directly to the expense account as opposed to running it through the Accounts Payable register which would have cleared the invoice.

Otherwise, normally when you make a payment to a vendor you will credit your bank account and debit your Accounts Payable account which would then clear the outstanding invoice.

I hope this helps with your Accounts Payable Balance Adjustment.

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Accounts Payable GL

Accounts Payable General Ledger

Accounts Payable General Ledger

Is the Accounts Payable account in the general ledger supposed to match with the A/P Invoice Aging Report? If so, why?

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A/P Aging and General Ledger
by: Stephanie

Hello and thank you for your question.

The answer is YES. Often, if the general ledger or balance sheet does not match with the accounts payable invoice aging report, a payment was not correctly applied to a vendor invoice.

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Accounts Payable Gratuities

Tips and Gratuities

Tips and Gratuities

I use PCLaw. I am trying to enter an account payable for a meal I bought. The tax and the total amount do not add up because there was a delivery charge and also a tip added to the initial amount charged. The program won't let that happen. But if I discount the tip and delivery charge the total amount is incorrect.

What do I do?

Thanks for any help that can be provided.

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Accounts Payable Refund

Accounts Payable Refund

Accounts Payable Refund

How do you give an accounts payable account a refund?

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A/P Refund JE
by: Anonymous

I believe you can use the general journal to post a credit to the bank account which will decrease the bank balance, and debit the Accounts Payable account which will decrease the A/P balance.

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AP Ledger Report

by Christel
(Boston, MA USA)

AP Ledger Report

AP Ledger Report

Why does my AP Bookkeeping Ledger detailed summary report show 0's in all columns except in 90 days and over. It shows the original invoice $ amount? How do I fix it?

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Clearing AP Aging
by: Anonymous

To clear old amounts from your A/P aging you can generate a vendor credit memo against it and apply it against the outstanding invoice. This will make an adjustment to your general ledger. If this isn't what you want, you should make an adjusting journal entry to reverse the transaction entered.

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Delinquent Accounts Payable

by Gary Tucker
(Kansas City KS USA)

Delinquent A/P

Delinquent A/P

I am behind financially with my manufacturer. About a year ago, he took the old balance I owe and has treated it as a completely separate amount from the business I have done with him since. I have sent him thousands of dollars for orders since he separated and isolated that old balance. It's like 2 accounts. The old balance keeps getting older and older. I have however paid some against the old balance as well.

Shouldn't any money I send to him be applied to the balance as a whole and not separated from one balance to another which would keep the account from growing farther and farther behind? Shouldn't the money be applied to the back end and not the front end? All the business I have done with this company has been for the same products for over 6 years.

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Unpaid Invoices
by: Anonymous

There are many ways in which unpaid invoice balances can be applied and accounted for. Typically, the invoices would not have been split into two and therefore any payment would automatically be applied to the oldest invoice first.

However, it sounds like he may have changed those original past due invoices into one loan payable which is why there are now two balances. In this case it would be normal to apply all payments to the oldest invoices first and have a separate payment to be applied to the loan.

If you want to make one payment for both, you would need to designate exactly which invoices you are paying and how much should be applied to the original balance payable.

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Entry For Stock Purchase of Company in Exchange for Note Payable

by Linh
(Virgina)

Stock Purchase

Stock Purchase

We are considering purchase of company from existing owner. It is sub chapter S. We get the stock and pay the owner cash and he takes back a note payable. How are these entries done?

Thank you.

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Journal Entry For Stock Purchased
by: Anonymous

When you purchased the stock and paid the owner cash you would enter:

CREDIT Cash Contribution (Owners Contribution)
DEBIT Stock Investment (Owners Equity)

On his end when he sells the stock and takes back a note payable he would enter:

DEBIT Bank Account (Asset)
CREDIT Stock Payable (Liability)

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Loan Penalties Payable

Penalties Payable

Penalties Payable

Can I record in the books penalties for bank loan payable which are not yet paid?

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Recording Loan Penalties
by: Anonymous

Yes, you can record penalties in your books for a bank loan payable even if they are not yet paid. You will just need to do an adjusting entry at year end to make sure that the total matches to actual.

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Payroll Check Running Through Accounts Payable

Payroll Check

Payroll Check

What are the negative implications of running payroll checks through accounts payable and not through a payroll service?

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Running Payroll Through Accounts Payable
by: Anonymous

It's possible to run your paychecks straight through accounts payable, however it is less complicated when using a payroll service because they do all of the payroll tax withholding and liability calculations for you. In addition, they will typically provide you with options for e-filing your payroll tax reports as well as e-filing your payroll liability tax payments.

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Trial Balance and A/P Schedule

by Claire
(Massachusetts)

Trial Balance

Trial Balance

I have a general journal entry that says "check correction wash". What does that mean? And how would QB's mark it as paid? This is causing the two to not balance.

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Check Correction
by: Stephanie

It's hard to say what exactly that means, but it sounds perhaps like it could be a kind of a suspense account or an over/under account for tracking book to bank discrepancies.

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