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How Nepali Shops Can Keep Double-Entry Books Without an Accountant
A plain explanation of double-entry books for Nepali shop owners: what a sale, a purchase, and a stock adjustment should change, and which records to keep so an accountant can close the month.
Double-entry sounds like an accountant’s subject. For a shop it is a simpler rule: every movement has two sides. A cash sale increases money and records income. A purchase increases stock and records what you owe the supplier.
Counter staff should not be asked to think in debits and credits. They should save the sale, the receipt, and the return in one system. The accountant then closes from those records instead of from a notebook and a memory.
The events that already are your books
A saved bill is the sales side. A goods receipt is the purchase side. A return, a damage write-off, and a stock transfer are adjustments. If those five events live in different notebooks, the month-end “books” are a reconstruction.
Sajilo IMS is where sales, purchases, stock adjustments, and transfers are recorded against products and locations. That history is what a double-entry set of books is built from. It is not a substitute for a chartered accountant when you need statutory statements.
What owners should stop doing
Do not keep a second sales total in Excel “for the accountant” while the counter uses another list. The two lists will disagree, and the wrong one will be treated as official.
Do not let staff delete a bill to fix a mistake. A return or an adjustment leaves a trail. Deleted history is how cash and stock stop matching.
The handoff to your accountant
Once a month, export or print sales, purchases, and stock valuation for the period. Tell the accountant which amounts are cash, wallet, and credit. Credit is income you have not collected, not cash in the drawer.
If you are VAT-registered, this pack is also the start of the tax conversation. Confirm the treatment with your accountant. Do not invent a journal at the counter to “make it look double-entry.”
Frequently asked questions
- Do cashiers need to learn debit and credit?
- No. They need a correct bill, a correct payment type, and a return path that puts stock back. The two-sided record comes from those saved events.
- Can software replace our accountant?
- It can replace the missing daily record. Filing, tax positions, and year-end statements still belong with someone who is responsible for them.
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