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If an account has a credit balance the customer must have overpaid on their account or a credit was issued by the company and posted to the customers account, resulting in a credit or negative balance.
Accounts Receivable is an account that holds what a person or company owes your business. For example you sold a computer to a customer on credit, this credit is listed in an Accounts Receivable and is an asset.Asset accounts maintain a Debit Balance, meaning that a debit to the account will increase the account (in other words increase the amount the customer owes the company).A credit to the account will decrease the balance of that account (in other words, it records payment or credit to that customers account and decreases the amount the customer owes the company).
debit a/r credit cash
Credit references
Credit references
If an account has a credit balance the customer must have overpaid on their account or a credit was issued by the company and posted to the customers account, resulting in a credit or negative balance.
Accounts Receivable is an account that holds what a person or company owes your business. For example you sold a computer to a customer on credit, this credit is listed in an Accounts Receivable and is an asset.Asset accounts maintain a Debit Balance, meaning that a debit to the account will increase the account (in other words increase the amount the customer owes the company).A credit to the account will decrease the balance of that account (in other words, it records payment or credit to that customers account and decreases the amount the customer owes the company).
debit revenue and credit receibables
You would credit the customer account and debit bad debt.
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A control account summarizes a set of subsidiary accounts. For example, Accounts receivable may have a control account, representing total Accounts receivable, and also may have a set of subsidiary accounts, representing the amount of Accounts receivable owed by each customer/debtor. The total of all subsidiary accounts must equal the balance of the control account. Control accounts will have debit or credit balances depending on the nature of those accounts. Control accounts for assets, such as Accounts receivable or Fixed assets, will have native debit balances. Control accounts for liabilities, such as Accounts payable, will have native credit balances.
A credit limit is applied to stop the user simply spending beyond their means. It also allows the lender to see how the customer operates their account. Credit limits usually start fairly low - but can be increased if the customer is using the account sensibly.
If you render a service n account to a customer you debit Account Receivable and credit Service Revenue.
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