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Hi Guys,

Dealing with my first Ltd Company.  The only director seems to have been paying for things with his own money which is causing me some confusion.

I'm working with VT Transaction+.  If a sole trader did this I'd simply add up all the things they paid and show a capital introduced for that amount.

Is the Ltd Company just as simple?  am I over complicating things?  Is it simply a directors loan?

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Kris


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Yes Chris I hope it really is that simple, cos thats what I have been doing. Credit directors loan, debit whatever account they have paid. On VT I think the best way is to set up directors loan as a bank account then just post the payment to this.

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Yes, this is correct, it is the directors loan account.

The DLR is often cleared by dividends from the business, if there are any dividends to take, obviously there are taxes involved as well.

It does not look good on the accounts to have a credit in the DLA so it best to advise keeping business and personal expenses seperate. Although saying that, advise is all you can do, my client insists on using his business card for everything and beleives a lot of things are business expenses when they are not, it's up to me to keep the two seperate.

This gave me a headache in the beginning as I was not used to personal items going through the business account but its ok now I've got used to it. I do feel somethimes though that I am his personal secretary rather than businness bookkeeper!

Gerry

-- Edited by gerry on Sunday 15th of November 2009 12:48:16 PM

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Thanks guys,

I know where your coming from Gerry, my client has it all very confused. He is the director of this and another company. He's actually paid many invoices for this one with the credit card for the other.

Kris

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Kris

In the case where he is paying Co#1 costs from Co#2, I would set up accounts in both companies to reflect the financial relationship between them.

Need to be careful to make sure that the balances match in each set of books i.e. liability in one Co and and equivalent asset in the other.

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Luckily, I am only dealing with one of the companies right now.

Kris


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