1. Characteristics of the sales cycle and collect
the sales cycle consists of the decision and the process necessary for the transfer of ownership of goods and services to customers. The cycle begins with the requirements of customers (orders, purchase contracts) and ends with the transition of goods or services by a Receivables and ultimately cash.
Sales is the process purpose and method of implementation is very diverse purposes. According to the method of exchange and payment may be cash sales proceeds directly through banks or by the method of consignment. For each such method of delivery procedures should also various control procedures are different.
2. The main function of the sales cycle and collection
-Get customer orders.
-Check credit and credit approval.
displacement deliveries.
fitting bill of sale and the book business.
-Handling record of the funds.
-Handling book sales and sales returns, sales discounts.
-Delete doubtful debts.
-The doubtful debts.
Handling of customer orders
The order is the starting point of the whole cycle. It is an offer to purchase goods received from a customer requirement, or some of the goods now. The order can be made in many forms such as customer orders, stock requisitions, requests via mail, fax, phone ...
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Most business Industrial policies are sold subject as this will facilitate businesses increase sales. However, businesses will be at risk if customers lose the ability to pay, so the sale shall be considered closely.
Before going to have to decide to sell it to consider each specific customer. Determine the maximum debt of each customer. On that basis, subject to the decision to sell all or part of the shipment. This ensures the possibility of recovering debts from customers.
Delivery of the goods
When you decide on the method of sales sales department will set coupon inventory and shipping documents based on the information unit received from customers and make the warehousing and delivery of goods.
Billing sales and operations simultaneously carrying
bills usually be made by a department independent of the accounting department.
Invoices sale restaurant vouchers on which full information on prices of goods and payment. The quantity of goods according to the official price of the company, are generated in the approved price list. Total payment will include principal commodity prices, shipping costs, insurance and other factors statutory value added tax. Invoices shall be made in 3 copies: Contact 1 delivered in pulp, 2nd delivered to the customer; 3 internal rotation. Sales invoices are grounds logging and tracking sales of receivables.
Handling and record the amount of collection.
The question here is to control receivables prevent fraud to occur. Consideration should be given to ensure that all of the proceeds are recorded in the log collection, cash book, the book details. The cash raised will need to send to the bank a reasonable amount, if obtained, the bank should ensure that the amount received as of the receivables, the relevant documents as recording vouchers, receipts or credit note.
Handling and book sales revenue return
revenue deduction occurs when the buyer is not satisfied with the goods they receive is often caused by defects of the goods or goods model wrong with the agreement of the contract. When the seller receives the goods or can discount on the price for that shipment has been calculated as agreed with the purchaser, in this case must be recorded fully and promptly to log sales returns and the rebate, the company's side window.
Remove doubtful debts
There are many reasons why the enterprise's accounts receivable not paid despite the company's employees worked hard in the work of recovery debt. After reviewing this debt is irrecoverable, the enterprise must delete the accounts receivable that. Division billing documents recorded up this profession and accounting charge to write-offs of accounts receivable reduced to these customers.
Provision for doubtful debts
if the customer fails to pay the company must make provision for these items. At the end of the accounting period, based on the regulations of the Ministry of Finance and the amount overdue accounting provision for receivables overdue. Pursuant to record doubtful debts is:
-It must collect overdue payments in the contract the economy, the loan agreements, commitments, or debt commitments, now demanded several times but still not obtained.
-It must be collected no maturity but the debtors had fallen into bankruptcy or dissolution procedures, missing, fled.
3. These risks occur in the sales cycle and collect
in the sales cycle and proceeds, we often see happening of fraud and errors following:
- Receiving orders from customers without solvency mathematics.
- Receive orders of business goods and services are not available or can not afford to provide.
- sales staff can do for the company is committed to a delivery schedule that plants can not meet application.
- Orders can be accepted that the terms or conditions of inaccurate or from customers not approved.
- The clerk may grant too much credit limits for customers to push strong sales and thus make the company suffer excessive credit risk.
- Exports of goods to warehouses without permission.
- Export incorrect number or customer specifications.
- Employees are not authorized to go shipping, shipment.
- delivery locations incorrect or improper customer.
- Do not write or record late-payment amount.
- Employees can forget billed up some invoices for goods delivery, set up a false invoice or a bill or invoice twice while not actually control the delivery.
- Employees are not paid from the proceeds of the sales profession.
It is aware of these errors occur in the cycle we can build a system of internal control effectiveness for the sales cycle.
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