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End of Year Books

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I am newy qualified, just started my own company and the frst proper client I have as asked me to do her year end books!!!!
It is for a Public House and have put 90% of the receipts onto Sage (only have 1 company version) quite a few receipts are for local supermarkets and local shops for misc supplies and also have to figure in free drinks each week for darts team and regular musicians!!! Help? know I have to do P and L account and Balance Sheet but not very sure what to do. I know I cant do and dont know how to do Self Asessment Tax and that she will have to get an accountant to do that and finish off accounts! Can anyone give me a litle clue or help. Thank you vey much in advance

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  • # 76585

What are the supermarket receipts for?  Are they personal shopping, or used in emergencies when they run short of items?

Kris 

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  • # 76586

Thanks for replying

The receipts are for emergency items that she has run out of for the Pub and not worth phoning up delivery company for. I only put on items that are for the pub, it takes a bit of working out, especially as I am a new book-keeper! 

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First, congratulations on your first client!

You might have been using loose terminology when you said "misc supplies", but you want to make sure that you are differentiating your COS. Things that are for re-sale that your client might be stocking up on from the supermarket (e.g. extra drinks, perhaps some bar food) are purchases under the 5000 codes, not overheads or expenses.

Are you taking over the books from someone else or is this a start up? If you are taking over, have you reviewed the books to date for anything that looks out of place or doesn't reconcile?

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I have taken over the books from someone else but this is a whole years book I have to do, ie have to put the whole lot on Sage and work out year end figures, and sorry, misc items are stationery for pub and yes it is items for resale, ie drink, alcohol.

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I’d recommend running b/f balance sheet and comparing to last filed accounts to check you’re at least starting off from a correct balance.

Otherwise, just continue to do as you’re doing, and at the end of the year journal it all up (accruals, prepayments, depreciation etc.)

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Hi Lynne,

Well done on getting your first client - however it sounds like a bit of a beast! There's nothing like jumping in at the deep end :-)

My first port of call for all tech queries would be to see how things have been completed before. However if you're still confused, i'd advise the following:

You'll have the payroll to consider in the accounts - presuming it's done "inhouse", you'll have to create all the necessary journals and banking entries for it.

With regards to the bank statement, I'd reconcile it one week at a time. If you try and do a month or more at once you could get yourself tangled up and very confused.

With regards to the free drinks, off the top off my head once the values are established, it will require a journal to debit (i guess) one of the 6000 codes (promo) and credit the stock account (1001-ish <i'm currently not sitting infront of Sage, hence my vagueness>).

You will have record the outcome of the weekly/monthly stock takes - that will also involve journalling between the 1001-ish code and 5200 and 5201.

I would use a bank account (and therefore nominal code) to record the in's and out's of the safe.

Those are some of the "extra" bits you may not have thought of already. Good luck, and have fun :-)

Helen xx

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Oh, another thing that will apply in a pub - cash till reconciliation. That'll be a tough one if you're trying to do the whole year. Have they been doing cashing up carefully and keeping records of any shortfall/excess on a daily basis? Any differences should also be recorded in the books.

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  • # 76631

Just a thought Lynne, but I don't suppose they have been getting regular stocktakes done. The stock reports could provide you with a wealth of information....Gross Profit, Purchases, Sales, Allowances for staff / free drinks, etc. Most pubs employ the use of a stocktaking service, which is invaluable for monitoring profit margins on a regular basis rather than once a year. Anyway, congratulations on getting your first client.

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