The
finance is the life blood of every business. The life blood will be managed
through this finance department. Under the supervision of finance manager and
the various accounts officers as well as the account assistants.
- Maintain complete set of accounts book keeping
- Account finalization
- Wages and salary payment system
- Debtors collection system
- Creditors payment
To maintain the cost accounting information such as value of semi-processed goods value and finished goods value. The verifying of the semi-finished goods valuation is also made by the finance department personnel’s.
ACCOUNTS MAINTENANCE
JOURNAL
Recording
of business transactions is usually done in journal or subsidiary books. Small
firms or sole traders may use the single journal system and bigger firms and
companies may subsidiary books system.
LEDGER
‘Ledger’ is the second
important stage in the accounting cycle or process. In this stage of accounting
cycle, all recorded business transaction or entries are grouped on a
predetermined basis. Such classification or grouping takes the form of
‘account’ in a separate book known as ledger. The ‘account’ in the ledger
provide identifiable ‘grouping’ to the numerous business transactions.
PROFIT AND LOSS
ACCOUNT
Every profit and loss
account of a company shall give a true and fair view of the profit &loss of
the company for the financial year and shall company with a requirements of
part 2 of schedule 5 so far as they are applicable. A year is, of course, of
twelve months duration usually but a company may choose to prepare profit and
loss account for eighteen month (with the permission of the register).
BALANCE SHEET
The
Balance Sheet of a company shall give a true and fair and view of affairs of
the company as at the financial year. “The balance sheet must in from the set out
in part1 of schedule 5 or as near circumstances permit”. Every balance sheet
must be accompanied by profit and loss account, Auditor’s and director’s report
and copies of these documents must be sent to the registrar after annual
general body meeting’.