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Financial Terminology for Drawing and Disbursing Officers and Financial Executives

Financial Terminology for Drawing and
Disbursing Officers and Financial Executives

-Dr.Lalit Kumar Setia*

Accumulated Fund:

This is the capital of a non-profit-making organization, shown in the Balance Sheet, and it is the net investment made by the contributing members of such an organization. However, it is shown under the head, Accumulated Fund. It represents the members’ equity and provides the risk finance for the assets which the organization is holding and for any other operations undertaken. It often represents the cumulative surplus of subscriptions over expenditure and contains no item of long-term funding provided explicitly at the organization’s formation or later.

Allowance:

An amount permitted to be set off against an income or profit in determining the taxable amount e.g. Capital allowance in respect of fixed assets.

Annual General Meeting:

A meeting which is held every year by a Company’s shareholders in order to review the business transacted, profits or losses made, appoint retire any directors, auditors etc. or any other such matter which is required to be discussed by the shareholders.
Appreciation:
An increase in the value (1) of stocks and shares when their prices rise on the stock exchange (2) of a currency when its value increases in terms of other currencies or (3) of stock or inventory held by manufacturers or traders in a period of rising prices.

Articles of Association:

A set of rules that govern the internal working of a company. They cover things like the issue and transfer of shares, the procedure for calling general meetings, shareholder’s voting rights etc.  This document has to be registered with the registrar of companies.

Assessment:

A statement showing a person’s tax liability for tax and the method of its calculation.

Asset:

The goods, property and resources of all kinds of a company, firm or an individual which are available for the payment of debts and liabilities.  When a balance sheet of a company its drawn-up everything it owns at that time, that has a money value is listed as an asset.  Assets are categorized as fixed or tangible assets e.g. machinery, building etc.  Intangible or fictious assets such as goodwill and current assets such as cash, stock, debtors, bill receivable etc.

Auction:

A sale of a commodity for which bids are made by prospective buyers and the commodity is to be sold to the highest bidder. The completion of the auction is signified by the auctioneer (often by a hammer blow) and there is then a valid contract between the highest bidder and the seller. Prior to the sale, the seller, usually a broker acting on behalf of the owner arranges for the commodity to be made available for inspection and sampling by prospective buyers.  It is a common method of selling items of a unique or unusual nature, such as large houses, works of art, antique furniture etc.

Audit:

The examination, usually yearly or half-yearly, of books of account, by a person specially appointed as the auditor for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the books and to give a true and fair view.  Under the Companies Acts this is compulsory for limited companies.
Auditing Standards:
These are statements that prescribe the conduct of audits, and are issued by the Companies Act or Auditing Practices Committee or such bodies that have been set up as professional accountancy bodies and whose members have the statutory right to audit the accounts of limited companies.

Auditor:

A person who conducts an audit.
Auditors’ Report:
An annual report from auditors of company is required by its shareholders along with the financial statements or final accounts for the accounting year.  The auditors are supposed to give a true and fair view of the financial operations of the company.  They are also supposed to give a full account of any reservations that they have in the form of a Qualified auditors report.

Authorized Capital:

The capital of a company as authorized by its memorandum of association. It is also called the ‘norminal’ and ‘registered’ capital.  The actual amount of capital issued may be less than this, and so the company, if it should wish, will be able to increase its capital at a later date upto the full amount authorized without further application to the Registrar of Companies, Whenever a new company is formed it has to state its authorized capital in order to be registered with the Registrar of Companies.
Automated Teller Machine:
This is a robot which dispenses cash and, in some cases, deals with certain other basic banking transactions of a kind which traditionally would have been handled by a cashier or teller over a bank counter.
Average:
A single figure representing a group of figures.  Arithmetic mean, Geometric mean, Median, Mode etc. are measures of an average.  A term used in marine insurance, as the amount payable by the owner of a ship and by the cargo owners, in proportion to their individual interests, to make good any loss caused by throwing part of the cargo overboard or cutting away the masts or such similar things, in order to prevent the loss of the ship and the rest of the cargo.

Bad Debt:

A debt that is difficult or impossible to collect.  This is an amount legally owed to the business, but unlikely to be paid because of bankruptcy or dishonesty or any other reason.

Bailment:

The delivery of goods or chattels to another person for a particular purpose other than on a sale.  The law of bailment is derived from the Roman law on the subject, but it touches and concerns a number of aspects of business life.  For example, auctioneers common carriers, pawnbrokers, dry-cleaners and bankers are all involved in contracts of bailment.  In the financial world, the principal examples of bailment are safe custody and hire-purchase.

Balance:

An outstanding amount on any account not closed anything a debit or credit.

Balance Sheet:

A balance sheet shows the assets and liabilities at a point of time of a company or other incorporated body or of a private person.  It is usually a picture of trading enterprise, but can be a statement drawn up by a charity, club, or a partnership.  It reflects the position of assets and liabilities on a particular date.  It is a ‘stock’ statement, unlike the ‘flow’ statements like the Profit and Loss account or trading account, which reflects a firm’s business operations for a particular period i.e. throughout the accounting period.

Bank Charges:

This is the commission charged by a bank to a customer for managing or maintaining its account.  This term is often used lossely to describe interest charges on bank loans and overdrafts.  Today bank charges account for nearly thirty per cent of the total cost of the banking services.

Bills of Exchange:

An unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another signed by the person giving it, requiring the addressee to pay on demand or at a stated future date a sum of money to a certain person or to the order of that person or to the bearer.  It is negotiable instrument requiring one person to pay a sum of money to another on a specific date on the order of a third person.

Blue chips:

Shares of successful progressive by the shareholders of a public or private limited company primarily for planning and policy making in addition to other functions.

Board of Directors:

A committee elected by the shareholders of a public or private limited company primarily for planning and policy making in addition to other functions.

Bonus:

An additional sum or payment than the amount agreed or contracted for e.g. in Life Insurance where policies are ‘with profits’, the insured receives an annual addition, known as bonus which is determined on the basis of profits earned by the insurance company.  Manufacturing industries often give bonus to their workers in addition to wages, worked out on different principles or systems of bonus, such as the productivity bonus or task bonus system.

Bonus Shares:

Share issued on a pro-rata basis to the existing shareholders by a company free of charge.  These are usually issued out of capital or revenue reserves.  This is capitalization of reserves or undistributed profits by a company.  The main aim of a bonus issue is to bring the capital of a company more closely in line with the level of the company’s assets.

Book Keeping:

A systematic method of maintaining records of business transactions.  It is keeping an account of what comes in and what goes out on a transaction day-to-day basis.  A record of financial dealings.

Book Value:

The value of the assets appearing in books of accounts on the debit side.  This is usually the price at which an asset has been acquired by a firm or company.  The book value after the asset is in use would be the value after deducting the depreciation to date.

Branch Accounts:

A system of maintaining accounts of business activities at places other than the main or head office, by a person known as a manager who is given a considerable number of powers.

Break Even:

A point or stage of business where there is neither a profit nor loss.  It is also known as the point from where profits begin.  Break-even analysis entrails the categorization of costs into fixed, variable and semi-variable.  A break-even chart shows the trend of total costs and revenues graphically and also indicates the break-even point.

Broker:

An agent acting on behalf of a principal, except in the case of the bill broker, who usually acts on his own account. Simply, a person who buys and sells goods, bills, stocks etc.  on behalf of another person.

Brokerage:

The charge or commission charged by brokers to clients on whose behalf they are carrying out the business transactions.

Budget:

The word was derived from the French word, “Bougette” which means “Little Bag”, or a receptacle of documents and accounts.  A budget is a statement of intentions or a plan of stating expected incomes and expenses under a given set of operating conditions.  It is also defined as an “overall financial plan for future activities.” It can be viewed as a plan for the utilization and coordination of materials, labour and other resources.

Business expenses:

Expenses incurred by a company in the course of its business activities or related to the business activities.

Business Income:

At current costs valuation, the total income that accrues to a firm or company during a particular accounting period.  This is arrived at after making several adjustments to sales income.

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