Learn how accounting spreadsheets work with real examples of journals plus when to switch to accounting software.

Journal entries are used in accrual accounting to record payroll expenses that have been incurred, at the time the expense becomes payable. Unlike cash accounting, which records payments when they are ...

QuickBooks offers several methods for tracking inventory. All methods create journal entries when inventory changes occur. However, some QuickBooks users prefer to manually make journal entries to ...

Auditors know that journal-entry testing is one of many procedures they can use in addressing client data completeness and, hence, audit risk (see AU-C Section 240, Consideration of Fraud in a ...

A journal batch acts like an electronic folder that holds one or more journal entries. Summary of Steps to Create A Journal Batch Sign-on to the Oracle applications and select the "RIT - GL - JOURNAL ...

Auditors can use Benford’s Law to identify general ledger irregularities — both those that can indicate fraud and those that do not. In this article, I introduce audit data analytics techniques that ...