Clearing Account
Many different accounts are used in finance. Understand the representation and nature of clearing account in context of accounting, finance and ERP Systems.
Many different types of accounts exist in the general ledger.
Each account hold information of a specific nature - relating to a company's business transactions.
Many companies use clearing account, which is an intermediate account
- One that retains information for a temporary amount of time, till a certain event happens
- After which, the balance is moved to other final account.
- Clearing accounts can created for just about any transaction in the accounting system.
- Controllership may also use clearing account to implement segregation of duties.
- One of the most used clearing account is the Cash Clearing Account.
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