An suspense account is an account in the general ledger, where value is temporary stored. The suspense account is used for current account can not be determined at the time of transactions is recorded.
Why is the value recorded in the saving account? In general, this
is because you can not determine whether the appropriate amount requires a
transaction. As long as the transaction in the suspense account and has not
been transferred to home, the transaction is "tense" of the transaction
as a "deposit amount " of the suspense account.
Suspense account is an account which used for any transaction or
balance in business or accounts.
A suspense account is a division of the company's book where it
record its non categorized
Debits and credits. While the company need to decide its
classification. Saving accounts temporary do not classify operations. The
trading account saving remain in the general social book.
As it decided to invest for a long period for time, the investment
in saving account is a temporary cash investor or short term effect securities
account during the investment.
Most saving account are often resolved on a company internal
accounting practice, To be considered, the balance must reach zero in the
account. The amount of interruption must be due to the account specified
properly. Although many companies do not have a standard time to complete
clearing out process that they are periodic like monthly or quarterly. In the
framework of corporate accounting suspense account earning temporary pale for
account not specified accounts not to be related to the sample. In many cases,
its keep separate fund from those, already classified account number and real
bank accounts. It properly record the transaction, but the transactions is
fully allocated. The account may contains information about the difference that
more information is collected.
Example of Suspense Account:
Unidentified credit found in bank account: amount is paid by one
of yours customers you need. He did not know the deposit, you can not recognize
the transactions. In this case you are saving an account with the hope that you
will recognize later.
In this example above money is deposited in your bank account.
Debit bank account
Credit suspense account
As mentioned earlier, you can also use a suspense account if the
correct account associated with the transaction can not determine when the
transaction was originally recorded. Some example are when you received partial
payment from a customer or do not know the bill to pay. If the payment is
confused by the customer, the payment amount can be transferred from the
suspense account and the appropriate account.
For example you receive a $100 payment, Open a suspense account
and add 100 dollars as credit, the withdraw from the cash account of the same
amount ( make sure that every thing is balanced according to accounting
equation). Upon completion of payment from the customer, we will charge a 100
dollars suspense account and deposit the same amount of account receivable. The
suspense account is closed and the payment is in that place.
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