Tham khảo tài liệu 'bookkeeping for dummies_5', tài chính - ngân hàng, kế toán - kiểm toán phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | More free books @ Chapter 9 Counting Your Sales 137 If your company uses a point of sale program that s integrated into the computerized accounting system recording store credit transactions is even easier for you. Sales details feed into the system as each sale is made so you don t have to enter the detail at the end of day. These point of sale programs save a lot of time but they can get very expensive usually at least 400 for just one cash register. Even if customers don t buy on store credit point of sale programs provide businesses with an incredible amount of information about their customers and what they like to buy. This data can be used in the future for direct marketing and special sales to increase the likelihood of return business. Figure 9-4 In QuickBooks recording payments from customers who bought on store credit starts with the customer payment form. Proving Out the Cash Register To ensure that cashiers don t pocket a business s cash at the end of each day cashiers must prove out show that they have the right amount of cash in the register based on the sales transactions during the day the amount of cash checks and charges they took in during the day. This process of proving out a cash register actually starts at the end of the previous day when cashier John Doe and his manager agree to the amount of cash left in the John s register drawer. Cash sitting in cash registers or cash drawers is recorded as part of the Cash on Hand account. More free books @ 138 Part III Tracking Day-to-Day Operations with Your Books When John comes to work the next morning he starts out with the amount of cash left in the drawer. At the end of the business day either he or his manager runs a summary of activity on the cash register for the day to produce a report of the total sales taken in by the cashier. John counts the amount of cash in his register as well as totals the checks credit-card receipts and store credit charges. He then
