Economics and Management
Sciences
Grade 9
Accounting
Term 2
Topics for term 2
• Debtors Journal (DJ)
• Posting of the DJ to the General Ledger
• Debtors Allowance Journal (DAJ)
• Posting of the DAJ to the General Ledger
• Effect on the Accounting Equation
1. Credit sales and Cash Sales
• Cash Sales
• Money is given immediately for items purchased. Items are
immediately exchanged during cash. (This is a cash transaction).
• Credit Sales
• Items received immediately but the money will be paid at
a later stage with more interest.
• Businesses sell mainly on credit to increase their sales and cash flow
in the business is improved
Important Accounting Concepts
ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS
No. Accounting Concepts
Definition/ Description/Examples
1
Credit Sales
When goods are sold on credit with the aim of increasing clientele and
turnover
2
Debtors
Customers who owe money to the business
3
Credit Agreements
Specifies the credit limit, payment terms and penalties
4
Invoice
Document issued to customers when goods are sold for credit
5
Credit Bureau
Private business which collects the credit records of customers
6
Repayments
Money owed is paid back
7
National Credit Act
Aims at preventing people from spending money they do not have.
8
Creditworthiness
Having a good credit record and affordability
9
Credit reference
Process conducted by businesses when a customer wants to buy goods on
credit to make sure that they are trustworthy and can pay the debt.
10
Term of Credit
The time or the period that the debtor must pay their account.
Process of someone becoming a debtor
• First a person must complete a Application form.
• The Application form consists of the following:
 full names of the applicant
 ID number
marital status ( Are they single, married, divorced or widowed)
address or place of residence
 salary or wage,
references of other credit stores (Any other store where the person has an
account)
the occupation of the person applying for the account etc.
• Some stores will want salary advice for the following reason(seeing
whether someone is able to pay for the goods they purchase on
account) :
• 1. Affordability of the applicant. (Can they pay for the goods
purchased. A business will not want a debtor that cannot pay them
back)
• 2. Proof of employment ( If someone is not really employed they will
not be able to pay the money back.)
• 3. Debit order payments through the bank ( They check to see if
someone is a good payer and if they pay on a regular basis. You want
a debtor that pays on time and the correct amounts)
• 4. Credit Bureau checks through the ID on the salary slip 9 The credit
Bureau has all the information on any form of debt that is linked to
you ID number, whether it is a car repayment, loan from a bank or
store accounts, this information will reflect on their systems.
Example of an application form
• The application form that is attached is an example of the application form someone will
complete to finance a motorcycle.
The supplier will complete this box. This is
the details of the dealership you bought the
goods from and whether a deposit was
given an what the amount of financing will
be and what your monthly instalment will
be.
This box you will complete your personal details.
ANC is when you and your spouse is married out of community of property (meaning what is yours is
yours and what is his will be his if you should ever divorce.
COP is when you and your spouse is married in community of property( meaning when you guys got
married everything that as yours will become his and what is his will become yours.)
The bond detail is your mortgage that you pay every month. Remember if you have your own property it is
an asset and if you pay your monthly instalment your prospective credit provider will see that you are a
good payer.
In this section you will complete your employer’s details ( the company you work for) and your
bank account details such as your account number etc.
Trade reference is any other store account etc. the financer can contact to see how you pay your
account.
Here you will complete you initials and Surname for example my intials is M and my surname is Barnard.
The personal application form you will complete all the details regarding your salary. Whether you receive a
car allowance ( money the company gives to you to pay a car this also includes petrol allowance that your
company gives you.) This must be completed for you and your husband/wife, if you are single you just
complete own.
In this section you will complete all of you monthly expenses. Remember we complete amounts
not write yes/no.
Here you will read through and sign if all the information that you have given is true and correct. If
you sign here that the information is correct, and the wrong information was given.
National Credit Act
• The National Credit Act, Act 34 of 2005 (NCA) was created to protect
both the consumers and businesses and became fully operational in
South Africa on 1 June 2007.
• The purpose of National Credit Act
Educate consumers on the responsibilities of borrowing
Ensure that money that is borrowed or lent out can be paid back.
To protect consumers who are unfairly treated by NCA
Provide debt counselling processes to consumers who cannot find a
solution to repay their debts
• What the National Credit Act can do for you
 Credit is good for you.
 It gives you that extra edge when you want to buy those things that are out of
your reach.
 The problem comes in when debt can quickly spiral out of control.
 So the trick is, manage your finances – only borrow what you can afford.
• Credit-worthiness
 Before a business will grant a person to buy on credit, they first must see if the
person is credit worthy – if the person is able to pay back its debts.
 To do this, they must look at a persons’ credit record – how did the person
paid back previous debts.
 If the business is satisfied, the business and the person will go into an
agreement
• Such an agreement specifies the following:
Credit limit – the maximum amount the debtor can owe on a specific
date.
Payments terms – how long can the debtor pays his/her account.
Incentives or rewards – can give the debtor discount if he/she pays
earlier.
Penalties – charge the debtor interest for late payment on his/ her
account
Recording of credit sales
• 1. Source document.
• We have learnt from the accounting cycle that when a transaction
takes place it must be recorded on a source document. The source
document for credit sales is a creditinvoice.
• CREDIT INVOICE
• This is a source document which lists goods bought with prices
charged and serves as proof that the transaction between a seller and
buyer has taken place.
The invoice contains the following:
• Letterhead of the seller.
• Name and address of the buyer.
• Date on which the transaction took place..
• Details of the goods i.e. description, quantities, etc.
• Prices.
• Total amount of the debt.
• VAT
• Terms of payment.
• Trade and cash discount allowed.
• The abbreviation E&OE
• Special instructions if there are any.
• The invoice is completed in duplicate.
• The client (Debtor) is given the original invoice
• The business enterprise remains with a duplicate credit invoice; this is the
document that is used to record the transaction.
• Example
• Let learners complete a blank template of an invoice in their workbooks use the
following information for learners to complete the template.
• On 12 September 2011 Ntuta stores of 78 Howard Avenue, Benoni, 1500 sent an
invoice
(no. INV 1234) to C. Roux of 112 Oak street, Northmead for the
following items sold on credit:
• 8 chairs @ R350, 00 each.
• 3 tables @ R1040, 00 each.
• 1 cupboard @ R1300, 00.
• Terms : 30 days, 5% discount
• Procedure for completing an invoice:
• Write invoice number.
• Write date on which the transaction took place.
• Write the details of the buyer, i.e. name and address.
• Complete the details of goods sold, i.e. quantity, description and unit price.
• Multiply quantity by the unit price and write total amount under the
column for Amount.
• Add all the amounts and write the total amount owed.
• Write terms of payment.
• Write special instructions if there are any.
• NB: VAT is ignored in this workbook
Example of how the invoice will be completed
with the information that is highlighted.
TO: C. Roux
112 Oak street
Northmead
INVOICE
NO : INV1234
78 Howard avenue
Benoni
1500
Date:12 September 2011
Ntuta Stores
Quantity
Description
8
3
1
Chairs
tables
cupboard
Unit Price
R350, 00
R1040, 00
R1300, 00
Total
Amount
R
2 800
3 120
1 300
7 220
Terms : 30 days, 5% discount
Special instructions: none
E&OE
• Now that we know what the difference is between cash and credit
sales, we know how to complete a credit application form and we are
able to complete an invoice we can start looking at our Journals that
are affected by credit sales.
• The journal we will be doing first is the debtors journal (DJ).
What is a debtor?
• A debtor is a Current Asset He owes the enterprise money
• An enterprise(business) sell goods/services to him on credit
• The enterprise issues the Debtor with an invoice
• The SOURCE DOCUMENT is the DUPLICATE INVOICE (This is a duplicate
invoice because the customer will always get the original invoice and the
business completes the journal from the duplicate invoice, therefor it is a
duplicate invoice for the business and an original invoice for the customer.)
• These transactions are recorded in the Debtors Journal (DJ)
• When the Debtor settles his account or makes a part payment, the
enterprise issues the debtor with a receipt (original).
• The source document once payment is received, is the duplicate receipt
• This receipt of money is recorded in the Cash Receipts Journal (CRJ)
The Debtors Journal (DJ)
• All transactions during which an enterprise SELLS ON CREDIT will be
entered in the first book of entry the debtors journal.
• So all goods sold on credit will be recorded in the debtors journal.
• When an enterprise issues invoices to various customers the invoices
are numbered chronologically and it is these numbers that you use
for recording purposes in the Journal. (The invoice will be in
chronological order meaning if we start with invoice number 501 the
next invoice will be 502,503,504 etc..
FORMAT OF THE DEBTORS JOURNAL
Classroom activity explained
• Let us do the classroom activity together on page 79.
• Please see video on how to complete the Debtors Journal.
• After you have done classroom activity 1, do classroom activity 2, but
only the Debtors Journal. We will post to the General Ledger
separately.