Bìznes Inform (Oct 2023)
Ways to Improve Accounting for Funds at a Trading Enterprise
Abstract
The aim of the article is to study the main issues of accounting for funds at a trade enterprise. The relevance of the study of this topic is proved by the main theses. It is impossible to imagine the functioning of the country’s economic system without the development of entrepreneurship, because business entities perform a number of important functions, namely: providing new jobs, creating goods and services, filling the State budget and increasing GDP. Money accompanies almost every stage of business activity: from the purchase of materials and raw materials to the receipt of funds for the created and sold products. Many scholars have been engaged in the study of the problems of accounting for funds at the enterprise, but now the development of our country’s economy is undergoing sharp changes, which leads to changes in tax legislation and the emergence of new problematic issues in accounting. That is why, in our opinion, the study of the organization of funds accounting plays an important role. According to NAS 1, funds (money) are cash, funds in bank accounts and demand deposits; funds equivalents are short-term highly liquid financial investments that are freely convertible into certain amounts of money and are characterized by an insignificant risk of changes in value. Funds are classified by: form of existence, currency valuation, purpose, place of storage and source of income. According to the form of existence, cash and non-cash payments are distinguished, by currency valuation – national and foreign currency; by purpose – current, special, and targeted; by the place of storage – at the cash desk of the company or on an account in a banking institution; by source of income – own, risen, and borrowed. Understanding the nature of the classification of funds, it is possible to distinguish the following difficulties in the process of organizing the accounting: lack of primary documents, arithmetic errors, facts of misuse of funds issued for accounting, difficulties when working with the registrar of settlement transactions. The authors propose certain solutions, such as: increasing the classification of personnel, introducing an electronic document management system, creating a workflow schedule, using the appropriate software when using the company’s funds register and creating an internal audit service at the enterprise in parallel with the external independent audit. All this, in our opinion, makes it possible to effectively organize the accounting process at the enterprise, rationally distribute the existing responsibilities among employees, increase the solvency and liquidity of the business.
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