What is interlocking accounts?

• Also refer as non-integrated accounts

• When a business keeps its cost accounts separate from the financial accounts such system is called interlocking accounts

Common features of Interlocking accounting/non-integrated accounting

• In the interlocking accounts, there is no double entry connection between the cost and financial accounts

• The cost and financial accounts are operated separately hence there are two profit figures which is the financial profit and the cost profit

• the differences in item (2) are caused among others, by differences in stock valuation and in the method of depreciation used

• as both cost and financial transaction originated from the same transactions, there must be only one profit figure, hence the two profit figures MUST BE RECONCILED

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