As the first 40 hours of my internship finished my supervisor changed position and assigned me in the accounting department .the accounting department main responsibility is to post the invoices and run the payment. I was first assigned to learn how to post the invoice.
Most invoices are usually received from IT, marketing and HR. There are two type of invoice, the first is the OPEX which is the operation expenditure, the second is the CAPEX which the capital expenditure.
In the second 40 hours of training I was trained to be able to post invoices and differentiate between operating expense and capital expense. Operating expense are expenditure that do not result in owning an assets that will be used for more one accounting period and do not improve the useful life for an existing assets whither by increasing it capacity or efficiency for more than one accounting period.
Operating expense could be annual rent, annual license fee, pluming or electrical repair, staff training cost for new property or equipment, or annual hardware and software maintenance. It should be mentioned that maintenance does not increase the life or efficiency of an assets.
Capital expense in the other hand the expenditure that will result in owning an asset that will be used for more than one accounting period or will improve the useful life of previously owned asset. Capital expenditure can be property acquisition, new or replaced equipment’s, vehicles, IT hardware, etc…
when wanting to bay an assets for capital expenditure there is a capital expenditure request that need to be filled .there is also a limited budget for each position in the bank that the person is only allowed to spend in capital expenditure for example group general managers have a limit if QAR 100,000, the GCEO limit is QAR 500,000 and the chairman limit is 3 million while if it exceed 3 million it should be discussed in the executive committee.
One of the most difficulties is to know and understand the tax policy in the OPEX outsourcing procedure as some companies are taxed, and the tax percentage differ as some are tax with 5% tax while other are taxed for 7% tax depending on the services they provided to the bank. Taxes are only applied for foreign companies excluding companies from GCC that provide services in Qatar.
5% taxis applied for companies that provide working license, software license, and consultation, financial and statistical ads.
While 7% taxis applied to companies that provided other services such as magazine and newspaper ads, and training courses.
If the training course is about a non-risky topic such as accounting procedures it will undergo a 5% tax, but if it was about a risky topic such as money laundry it will undergo the 7% tax .as the percentage of tax on training courses depend on the level of risk brought with it.
Trying to work as hard as possible and to learn from mistakes and never do them again is what got me finish the job done as my supervisor missioned.
Working in the accounting department help in the learning of many skills such as the differentiation of CAPEX and OPEX, what percentage of tax should be applied, how to deduct taxes, how to fill and review the CAPEX and the OPEX payment request and how to post themin the phoenix system.
There are many advantages and disadvantages while working,one of the disadvantages isthat working in a bank especially in the accounting department is very critical and need a lot of practice.
The advantages are that it is considered to be a routine job which meanies if it was understand well it will be easy and rarely face any difficulties, I had a practical experiment of what I studied in the university and used what I learned in a real working environment.
In the second 40 hours of my internship I was able to learn a huge amount of information that will help me in the future. I learned about OPEX and CAPEX and how to post invoices, I also learned about petty cash and it procedure, also about the tax committee and tax percentages.
As the first 40 hours of my internship finished my supervisor changed position and assigned me in the accounting department .the accounting department main responsibility is to post the invoices and run the payment. I was first assigned to learn how to post the invoice.
Most invoices are usually received from IT, marketing and HR. There are two type of invoice, the first is the OPEX which is the operation expenditure, the second is the CAPEX which the capital expenditure.
In the second 40 hours of training I was trained to be able to post invoices and differentiate between operating expense and capital expense. Operating expense are expenditure that do not result in owning an assets that will be used for more one accounting period and do not improve the useful life for an existing assets whither by increasing it capacity or efficiency for more than one accounting period.
Operating expense could be annual rent, annual license fee, pluming or e