Webclass 112: Why you need to do data analytics on detailed ageing balance analysis?

Q1. Why might only looking at the balance per third party per month, not be enough to detect outstanding payments due?

Because a debit value can be hidden in the creditor balance

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Because the overall age will look normal

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Q2. Which statement is usually correct?

Customers are debtors and suppliers are creditors

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Customers are creditors and suppliers are debtors

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Q3. Which statement is usually correct?

Assets increase on debit and liabilities increase on credit

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Assets increase on credit and liabilities increase on debit

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Q4. If we see that the customer ageing balance report is perfect (there are no outsanding balances), what might this mean?

The balance was cleaned up through credit-debit refresh just before the audit or there were no sales recently

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The Accounts Receivables department is doing a fantastic job

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Q5. If we see that a transaction appears to be very overdue and the document date is long before the input date, what could this mean?

The supplier is back-dating invoices

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Accounts Payable are inefficient

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Q6. Why might a supplier have a debtor balance?

Because a down-payment was made but the service not yet delivered

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Because Accounts Payable are late making payments

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Q7. If billing is anticipated (entered early), what might we see?

A high AR balance, that gets refresed/ cancelled-out at 60-90 days

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Customers with a creditor balance

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Q8. Why is it important not to have many copies of the same customer in the customer master data?

Because the Accounts Receivable can do lapping between the copies of the account, in order to move the balance and make it young again

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Because there could be duplicate payments coming from the customers

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Q9. Which SAP table has the configuration of the payment terms?

T052

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T052U

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Q10. Why might we need to take into consideration discounts in order to know the number of days to add to the baseline date?

Because the number of days can be conditioned on the discount value

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Because if there is a discount then the additional number of days will be zero

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Q11. Why might it be best to use the payment terms on the purchase order rather than those on the master data or the auxiliary ledger?

Because the purchase order takes into consideration the contractual details for the specific item, whereas the master data is the default payment terms and the invoice could have unauthorised changes to payment terms

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Because the purchase order is the central part of the purchase to pay process

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Q12. Why might someone in Accounts Receivable update the baseline date in SAP?

In order for the SAP report that comes out of SAP to show the ageing balance in a more positive light

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In order to steal money from the company

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Q13. If we want to know the age per cost center, what challenges might we face?

The payment terms are found on the AP line and not on the cost line, the values on the cost lines are without tax

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The payment terms are found on the cost lines and not the AP lines and the value on the cost lines are with tax

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Q14. Why might we want to create a snapshot date?

In order to know the age of transactions at any point in time in the past and not only at the time of the audit – so that we can see if the entity appears to clear-up balances just-prior to the audit

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In order to be able to see if there are a lot of payments that are outstanding at the time of the audit

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Webclass 112: Why you need to do data analytics on detailed ageing balance analysis?

Webclass 112: Why you need to do data analytics on detailed ageing balance analysis?

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