找到第一份会计相关工作啦！后续工作后感。痛苦的工作经历。详见39楼

sarahbing

当会计的哥哥姐姐，大伯大婶。。。我目前会计马上开学（就是0经验，0学历），参加了面试，要求过几天2面。


更新：俺找到工作啦！！！终于从体力工进化成为半脑力工了。。。。
早晨接到的电话。都忘记这份面试了快。。。没有第二次面试，直接一面之完就工作啦。。。哇哈哈。。
找工经验总结请看这里http://www.oursteps.com.au/bbs/v ... p;page=1#pid6694618

[ 本帖最后由 sarahbing 于 2011-8-2 19:13 编辑 ]

sarahbing

还有就是，本着学经验的态度找工作，大公司的也找不到（graduate program 也论不到我这个fresh student），太小的吧，学的东西也有限，也没啥发展前景。那么我现在找什么样的公司的什么入门职位比较好呢？我不喜欢做税务那一块。希望以后往金融，还有管理方面发展。。。谢谢大家。

sarahbing

Accounts payable is a file or account sub-ledger that records amounts that a person or company owes to suppliers, but has not paid yet (a form of debt), sometimes referred as trade payables. When an invoice is received, it is added to the file, and then removed when it is paid. Thus, the A/P is a form of credit that suppliers offer to their customers by allowing them to pay for a product or service after it has already been received.
In households, accounts payable are ordinarily bills from the electric company, telephone company, cable television or satellite dish service, newspaper subscription, and other such regular services. Householders usually track and pay on a monthly basis by hand using cheques or credit cards. In a business, there is usually a much broader range of services in the A/P file, and accountants or bookkeepers usually use accounting software to track the flow of money into this liability account when they receive invoices and out of it when they make payments. Increasingly, large firms are using specialized Accounts Payable automation solutions (commonly called ePayables) to automate the paper and manual elements of processing an organization's invoices.
Commonly, a supplier will ship a product, issue an invoice, and collect payment later, which describes a cash conversion cycle, a period of time during which the supplier has already paid for raw materials but hasn't been paid in return by the final customer.
When the invoice is received by the purchaser it is matched to the packing slip and purchase order, and if all is in order, the invoice is paid. This is referred to as the three-way match. [1]The three-way match can slow down the payment process, so the method may be modified. For example, three-way matching may be limited solely to large-value invoices, or the matching is automatically approved if the received quantity is within a certain percentage of the amount authorized in the purchase order.[2]

[ 本帖最后由 sarahbing 于 2011-6-6 11:55 编辑 ]

sarahbing

Accounts receivable Accounts receivable represent money owed by entities to the firm on the sale of products or services on credit. In most business entities, accounts receivable is typically executed by generating an invoice and either mailing or electronically delivering it to the customer, who, in turn, must pay it within an established timeframe, called credit terms or payment terms.

The accounts receivable departments use the sales ledger, this is because a sales ledger normally records [2]:
- The sales your business has made.
- The amount of money received for your goods or services
- The amount of money owed at the end of each month (debtors).

The accounts receivable team is in charge of receiving funds on behalf of a company and apply it towards the current pen balances on a company.
Collections and cashiering teams are part of the accounts receivable department. While the collections department goes after the debtor the cashiering teams applies the monies received

sarahbing

In a company, payroll is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions. In accounting, payroll refers to the amount paid to employees for services they provided during a certain period of time. Payroll plays a major role in a company for several reasons. From an accounting point of view, payroll is crucial because payroll and payroll taxes considerably affect the net income of most companies and they are subject to laws and regulations (e.g. in the US payroll is subject to federal and state regulations). From ethics in business viewpoint payroll is a critical department as employees are responsive to payroll errors and irregularities: good employee morale requires payroll to be paid timely and accurately. The primary mission of the payroll department is to ensure that all employees are paid accurately and timely with the correct withholdings and deductions, and to ensure the withholdings and deductions are remitted in a timely manner. This includes salary payments, tax withholdings, and deductions from a paycheck.

sarahbing

Cash flow projections are detailed descriptions of expected future inflows and outflows of cash into a project, program or organiza- tion. Cash flow projections are important tools in good operational and fiscal management systems.

Do not confuse a Cash Flow Projection with a Cash Flow Statement. The Cash Flow Statement shows how cash has flowed in and out of your business. In other words, it describes the cash flow that has occurred in the past. The Cash Flow Projection shows the cash that is anticipated to be generated or expended over a chosen period of time in the future.

There are three parts to the Cash Flow Projection. The first part details your Cash Revenues. Enter your estimated sales figures for each month. Remember that these are Cash Revenues; you will only enter the sales that are collectible in cash during the specific month you are dealing with.

The second part is your Cash Disbursements. Take the various expense categories from your ledger and list the cash expenditures you actually expect to pay that month for each month.

The third part of the Cash Flow Projection is the Reconciliation of Cash Revenues to Cash Disbursements. As the word "reconciliation" suggests, this section starts with an opening balance which is the carryover from the previous month's operations. The current month's Revenues are added to this balance; the current month's Disbursements are subtracted, and the adjusted cash flow balance is carried over to the next month.

sarahbing

CASH REVENUES
Revenue from Product Sales
Revenue from Service Sales
TOTAL CASH REVENUES

CASH DISBURSEMENTS
Cash Payments to Trade Suppliers
Management Draws
Salaries and Wages
Promotion Expense Paid
Professional Fees Paid
Rent/Mortgage Payments
Insurance Paid
Telecommunications Payments
Utilities Payments
TOTAL CASH DISBURSEMENTS

RECONCILIATION OF CASH FLOW
OPENING CASH BALANCE
ADD: TOTAL CASH REVENUES
DEDUCT: TOTAL CASH DISBURSEMENTS
CLOSING CASH BALANCE

Remember, the Closing Cash Balance is carried over to the next month. Once again, to use this template for your own business, you will need to delete and add the appropriate Revenue and Disbursement categories that apply to your own business.

The main danger when putting together a Cash Flow Projection is being over optimistic about your projected sales. Terry Elliott's article, 3 Methods of Sales Forecasting, will help you avoid this and provides a detailed explanation of how to do accurate sales forecasting for your Cash Flow Projections.

sarahbing

Sales forecasting is especially difficult when you don’t have any previous sales history to guide you, as is the case when you’re working on preparing cash flow projections as part of writing a business plan. Here, Terry Elliott provides a detailed explanation of how to do sales forecasting. –Ed.

There are all sorts of ways to estimate sales revenues for the purposes of sales forecasting.

One point to remember when sales forecasting is that if you plan to work with a bank for financing, you will want to do multiple estimates so as to have more confidence in the sales forecast. How do you do this?

Sales Forecasting Method #1

For your type of business, what is the average sales volume per square foot for similar stores in similar locations and similar size? This isn't the final answer for adequate sales forecasting, since a new business won't hit that target for perhaps a year. But this approach is far more scientific than a general 2 percent figure based on household incomes.

Sales Forecasting Method #2

For your specific location, how many households needing your goods live within say, one mile? How much will they spend on these items annually, and what percentage of their spending will you get, compared to competitors? Do the same for within five miles (with lower sales forecast figures). (Use distances that make sense for your location.)

Sales Forecasting Method #3

If you offer say, three types of goods plus two types of extra cost services, estimate sales revenues for each of the five product/service lines. Make an estimate of where you think you'll be in six months (such as "we should be selling five of these items a day, plus three of these, plus two of these.") and calculate the gross sales per day. Then multiply by 30 for the month.

Now scale proportionately from month one to month six; that is, build up from no sales (or few sales) to your six month sales level. Now carry it out from months six through 12 for a complete annual sales forecast.

Don’t Just Do One Sales Forecast

Instead of forecasting annual sales as a single figure, use one or two of the sales forecasting methods above and generate three figures: pessimistic, optimistic, and realistic. Then put the figures in by month, as depending on your business, there could be HUGE variations by month. (Some retail firms do 50 percent of their gross sales around Christmas, from the end of October to the end of December, for example, yet barely get by June through August.)

Include Expenses in Your Sales Forecasting

Now put in your expenses by month, including big purchases by season (or however you buy materials/goods). Remember, you may buy materials or inventory in say, July, for Christmas, yet not get all of your receipts until 45 days after Christmas. There can be big cash flow implications. Also, will you be buying vehicles? Capital equipment? Make sure to show depreciation expense.

In your expenses, put in an allowance for bad debts. Figure how much of your sales are by cash, how much by credit card, how much by your extending credit. Deduct say four percent or more for credit card expense for that portion sold by credit card. For payroll expenses, put in estimated tax withholding payments quarterly that must be paid to the government.

If you're going to a bank for financing, be able to answer questions such as, have you made an allowance for a reserve cash account, for your slow months, but also in case you have to quickly replace a vehicle or equipment? You say you'll charge x dollars for your product, but what happens when your competition cuts the price by 33 percent and still makes a profit?

How specifically will you grow your business-- selling more to existing customers, selling existing products to new customers, selling new products to existing customers, and selling new products in order to attract new customers? They're going to want to see if you've got a real plan.
Remember that it is acceptable (and realistic) to have a negative cash flow projection for the early months of your cash flow projection period.

Sales Forecasting Summary

I guess you can see that instead of estimating one big sales figure for the year when sales forecasting, a more realistic monthly schedule of income and expenses gives you far far more information on which to base decisions. That's what "keeping the books" is designed to do: give YOU information you can make good decisions on.

So in effect, you prepare three cash flow projections, where you vary the percentage of sales or other figures to arrive at three different scenarios: pessimistic, optimistic, and realistic. The pessimistic view should be the "worst case" situation; plan to have enough capital and patience to get through that scenario. If it turns out that the actual results are better than that - great!

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Mark

maxliu123

佩服你怎么拿到面试的？强人！

澳洲小花

没有实际经验，怎么面试？强！

sarahbing

A Bank reconciliation is a process that explains the difference between the bank balance shown in an organisation's bank statement, as supplied by the bank, and the corresponding amount shown in the organisation's own accounting records at a particular point in time.
Such differences may occur, for example, because
a cheque issued by the organisation has not been presented to the bank,
a banking transaction, such as a credit received, or a charge made by the bank, has not yet been recorded in the organisation's books
either the bank or the organisation itself has made an error
It may be easy to reconcile the difference by looking at very recent transactions in either the bank statement or the organisation's own accounting records (cash book) and seeing if some combination of them tallies with the difference to be explained.
If not, it may be necessary to go through and match every single transaction in both sets of records since the last reconciliation, and see what transactions remain unmatched. The necessary adjustments should then be made in the cash book, or any timing differences recorded to assist with future reconciliations.
For this reason, and to minimise the amount of work involved, it is good practice to carry out such reconciliations at reasonably frequent intervals.
Reconciliations are generally performed by specialised accounting software though the understanding of what occurs is important for a successful reconciliation

我想问大家一下。你们觉得resonably frequent 是多久就reconcile一次呢？，是根据不同公司不同的需要还是有一个比较好的公式可以换算出来呢？还有普遍用什么软件呢？

sarahbing

The following abbreviations are typical abbreviations on a bank statement:
DO - Debit Order
SO - Stop Order
IS - Insurance
SF - Service Fees
SD - Sundry Debits
EC - Error Corrected
MT - Magnetic Tape (Not generally used in modern statements)
IN - Interest
CB - Cheque Book
CM - Cheque marked for payment
RD - Return to drawer
DB - Debit Balance
od - In overdraft

sarahbing

我还想问， bank reconciliations 和 monthly report & reconciliations 有什么区别？是不是前者是bank与organisation之间的。后者是organisation内部的？

Shanny

I am qualify CPA and senior accountant. Send me a message include your phone number.
It's easy just 10 min talk rather than type!

by the way I am sharon

sarahbing

谢谢Sharon mm哇。。。虽然那些东西比较抽象一点，但是。。。mm 温柔的讲解还是很有用的。。

Shanny

谢谢你的赞美，祝愿你成功！

Shanny

有好消息要分享哦！

摩尔公园

lz牛人不解释。lz以前记过帐的话这些都不难的吧。

sarahbing

原帖由 摩尔公园 于 2011-6-8 11:44 发表
lz牛人不解释。lz以前记过帐的话这些都不难的吧。

我就是把发票整理了一下，一共有2个小时经验。。。(monkey08)

zyddx

also want to know,  could u share with us? thanks!!!!!!!!

sarahbing

原帖由 zyddx 于 2011-6-9 13:53 发表
also want to know,  could u share with us? thanks!!!!!!!!

mm讲了好久，因为我从来没有接触过，有一些忘记，不过她是按照我列出来的顺序给我讲的。晕，顺序让我给删了。。。我现在其实唯一记住的就是作为一个没有经验没有degree的人，一定要表现自己keen to learn的良好态度。

所以我昨天面试，信件里说得是15－30分钟，我和老板聊了1个半小时。。。他还教我怎么简单使用那些软件（很皮毛很皮毛），那么多accounts，我一看就头晕了。。。总之两人交谈比较愉快。

joluvsmarco

lzmm 我们公司也用这个xero 挺好用的 虽然没有别的系统全面 但是比较简便。我也就做做最基本的bookkeeping的事。

znby

很好奇，怎么有面试机会,且怎么通过一面的

kkjeffery

我们公司也用xero，我看公司新来的会计才花几天就熟练了。我看过这软件，确实挺简单的。

Shanny

工作拿到了嗎？

zyddx

kelly2009

看的我有点晕，没有用过这个软件。xero这个软件一般适用于什么类型的公司?

sarahbing

找到工作了。。。。早晨接到的电话。都忘记这份面试了快。。。没有第二次面试，直接一面之完就工作啦。。。哇哈哈。。

sarahbing

想知道没有经验怎么找工作吗？
想重温找到第一份工作时那单纯的开心快乐吗？
小小定金，便能让你回到10-20年前那年少活力热情的年代。。
晚上俺讲经验。。。哇哈哈

[ 本帖最后由 sarahbing 于 2011-7-25 10:27 编辑 ]