Usachev V. A, Kalnina A. A
Donetsk National University of economics and trade
named after Michailo
Tugan-Baranovsky
Accounting principles of organization
of operating in the bank
Bank -
the main structural unit sphere of money circulation. Product of the banking activities are services related
to the organization of payment and settlement, accounting businesses and
individuals, keeping money, credit, and performing other banking operations.
The result of the
bank - are the economic benefits received by them and their clients. In the
activities of the bank accounting plays an important role, which provides
information on the formation of the flow of funds and their sources.
The problem of
accounting for commercial banks:
·
To complete and accurate information about the financial and business
processes and results of operations necessary for the operational management
and reporting.
·
Control over the availability and movement of funds, tangible and
intangible assets, financial resources, and other values and
their sources.
·
Providing bank customers timely and accurate information about the flow
of funds in payment, loan or other accounts.
Accounting
principles in the banks, as well as in institutions and enterprises of other
sectors of the economy are the same. Following a single methodological basis,
bank accounting has distinctive features; due to the specifics maintained the
monetary, which is reflected in the organization of accounting and operational
work. The bulk of transactions conducted in the bank - transactions related to
cash flow, payments and settlements. It
presupposes the particular requirements for documentation, workflow, and
document storage, record keeping and reporting of the bank.
Accounting
rules and reporting in banks defined in the Regulations of the State Bank of
the USSR ¹ 7 on 30.09.1987 .When using this manual should be considered a
modern processing technology of bank records and methods of control for its
accuracy.
Organization
of accounting and operational work in the bank includes:
• construction
accounting and operational staff;
• the organization
of work and document management;
• Internal control.
In the
structure of accounting and operational staff of banks allocate user groups
that maintain accounts with homogeneous economic content. The number of groups
and their composition depend on the activities of the bank and its scope.
For example, billing customers performs
operations department, consisting of the principal investigators (accounting
and operational staff).
Responsibility
performs services for companies and citizens committed by them in the bank
settlement and cash transactions. They
are trusted by the bank's employees, draw up and sign the settlement and
monetary instruments.
Balances and transactions are distributed
among the perpetrators, are recorded in a special book and executed and signed
by the chief accountant of the workers.
Organization of
accounting and operational work in a bank must provide the following:
1. All operations with
the documents received from the client during the operating time are accounted
in the same day (operation time is set by the bank itself).
2. Transmission of documents processed by CC
bank made during the day on schedule, but at least 1.5 - 2 hours
before the end, in order to enter the required information, process it on the
financial statements of the day.
3. Balance daily
balance is not later than the next working day (as an extract from the
correspondent bank account come the next day after surgery).
Organization
of accounting and operational work requires the establishment of a banking
institution of the order of passing documents at every stage of processing. For
this chart and the scheme document, approved by the supervisor.
The schedule shall
provide for:
• The time required
to process the documents received by the bank prior to servicing.
For example,
documents such as statements of correspondent accounts, data collection
proceeds in cash and the amount of money taken by night depository, etc.;
• Schedule customer
service for more uniform load;
• the time to
complete and process documents received to the bank after the end of the
trading day.
When
making bank transactions to maintain control over the legality of the
procedures and save money. Responsible
contractor shall verify compliance with the established rules of calculation,
accuracy of the document and certify it with his signature. If the document is
subject to additional controls, it is passed the supervisory employee. The audit supervisors are the
signature of bank employees, as well as the signature and stamp of the bank
customers. After checking the controller operation is completed.
All
sales are recorded in the accounts, which systematize them with varying degrees
of detail. The most common account - synthetic - defined chart of accounts, which
is economically viable systematic list of accounts.
The presence of a common list of accounts can make the
information on the bank's available to external users and compile it in a
single report of the National Bank of Ukraine. Detailed information is given
analytical accounts, and the degree of detail determined by the needs of bank
management.
All accounts are divided into the balance sheet and
off-balance sheet. Accounting balance sheet accounts is a way of double entry,
which provides reception of the bank balance. Off-balance sheet accounts are
accounted for as receipts and expenditures without double entry. Codes balance
sheets consist of 3 characters. The first two characters on the left - the account of the first order,
which are detailed with a third, sign on the account of the second order.
For example:
01 Bank
Funds;
010
Authorized capitals;
011 Reserve
fund;
012
Special Funds.
Off-balance sheet account codes consist of four
digits, the first two of them - "99."
Operations carried out for the day, are summarized in
the daily reporting, which includes balance sheet and off-balance sheet
accounts. Balance Sheet - a grouping of economic resources and sources of
education in terms of money on a specified date. Balance is the main form of
financial statements, which describes the financial performance of the bank and
used for its analysis and control. It reflects the state of the funds raised
and the bank's equity, as well as their placement in the credit and other
operations.
Bank's balance sheet, unlike the company's balance
sheet production sector, built on the principle of one-sided group accounts. In
one section, it can be active, passive and active-passive accounts. The balance is
made every day.
Operational reporting requires precise accounting
organization in the bank. Most of the operations of banks (settlement, cash,
credit, etc.) are treated on the basis of accounting buhgatgerskom monetary
settlement documents. Standardized
forms and documents izgotashsh-vayutsya typographically in standard forms or
printed on a computer. Each standard document contains the basic details: name
of the document form number, document number and date of issue, the name and
place of business of the payer and the payee, account number, purpose of
payment (maintenance operations), the amount of the operation, code to handle
client information , his signature and seal, signature of bank employees, to
validate the document.
All documents should be properly and clearly designed.
Corrections in the monetary and banking settlement documents are not allowed. At the place of formation
documents are divided into bank includes banks, and client received from
companies and organizations as well as citizens. An example of banking
instruments are cash (credit and debit), memorial warrants, orders of a loan to
pay for the settlement documents, expense reports reporting entities. To client
documents include requests for payments, orders, receipts, time liabilities on
loans, etc.
Monetary and payment documents to the nature of banking operations are
divided into cash, memorial and memorandum. Documents are made cash
transactions for acceptance and issuance of cash. Of credit cash instruments include: ad clients deposit
money in the bank office, petty cash receipts, receipts, receiving money. To
cash out documents include checks for the money and spending cash orders.
Checkbooks (registered or bearer) issued to customers on their application.
Expendable cash order is issued the deposits. Credit and debit cash receipts
are applied when making intra-operations, such as: the return of petty cash and
the payment of advances and wages to employees of the bank. Memorial records
are used for non-cash transfers in the accounts.
These are submitted to the bank customer payment requests, orders,
payment receipts and other documents, as well as memorial order to process
transactions in a partial payment of payment orders, partial repayment of
loans, etc. For off-balance sheet instruments include off-balance sheet credit
and debit orders. These documents are made welcome and delivery of valuables
and documents stored in the hand and in the accounting department. All cash and
memorial documents are the basis for carrying out banking operations must have
signatures of officials of the bank, to issue and validate them.
The signatories are responsible
for the legality of the operation and accuracy of documents. Some operations
are subject to additional control and therefore signed, after the perpetrators,
a senior bank employees.
Banks must ensure that the safety of accounting documents.
Responsibility for the proper organization and maintenance of order filing
rests with the manager and chief accountant of the bank, which instruct
employees, allocate and assign them space to store documents in cabinets and
other storage areas. Accounting
documents are filed for each working day in the ascending order of the numbers
of debit or credit balance accounts. A compilation by the employee who is
responsible for the formation documents.
Documents for the previous
day must be made no later than the next day. The number and total amount of
documents certified by the signatures on the cover to form an employee, the
chief accountant or his deputy, and on cash instruments, as senior cashier.
Seizure of documents on deposits allowed only at the request of the court or
the investigating authorities in connection with criminal cases.
When removing the original document prepared in duplicate certificate or
protocol withdrawal signed by the chief accountant of the bank or his deputy.
The instrument or protocol should be specified at whose request the document
withdrawn. The second copy of the report or the protocol is given a named
representative. In place of the original document is placed seized a certified
copy of the Chief Accountant, the first copy of the report or the minutes and
the demand for withdrawal of the document with the receipt the person who
received the original document. The seizure of the chief accountant makes his
signature label on the cover of the folder with the documents.