CPTE ATTENTE AVANCE PS

English translation: advance suspense account (process status)

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French term or phrase:CPTE ATTENTE AVANCE PS
English translation:advance suspense account (process status)
Entered by: Neveen Abdallah

11:33 Dec 15, 2020
French to English translations [PRO]
Finance (general)
French term or phrase: CPTE ATTENTE AVANCE PS
I am in the process of translating a French chart of accounts, for an airline company, to English, and I found this account whose equivalent English is unknown for me.
the account`s name is "CPTE ATTENTE AVANCE PS", considering that "CPTE" stands for "compte" which means "account" in English, but I don`t know the meaning of the rest of the name of this account.
Neveen Abdallah
Local time: 01:21
advance suspense account (process status)
Explanation:
advance suspense account like mortgage suspense account or brokerage suspense account.

Mortgage Suspense Accounts

A mortgage servicer may use suspense accounts to hold funds when a borrower falls short on a required monthly loan repayment, where the suspense account functions as a catch-all vessel that secures the funds. At this time, the mortgage servicer may elect to distribute the partial amount received to various silos, including principal amount owed, accrued interest, property tax payments, and homeowner's insurance programs.

In some cases, a borrower deliberately makes partial payments, by intentionally dividing his monthly payment into two chunks. In such cases, mortgage servicers can use suspense accounts to house the first partial payment until the second payment is remitted. After receiving sufficient funds to make a full payment, the mortgage servicer then applies the combined balance to the correct account.

Brokerage Suspense Accounts

Similar to business suspense accounts, brokerage suspense accounts temporarily hold funds while transactions are completed. For example, if an investor sells off a group of securities valued at $500, but plans to quickly invest that amount of money in a different set of investments, the $500 from the sale would be moved to a suspense account until it can be allocated toward the new purchase.

Source: Investopedia


PS symbol

In most Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the ps program (short for "process status") displays the currently-running processes. A related Unix utility named top provides a real-time view of the running processes.

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Asker disagrees with my translation of 'ps'. According to her interpretation' ps = personnel au sol', which means ground-based staff in English.
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advance suspense account (process status)


Explanation:
advance suspense account like mortgage suspense account or brokerage suspense account.

Mortgage Suspense Accounts

A mortgage servicer may use suspense accounts to hold funds when a borrower falls short on a required monthly loan repayment, where the suspense account functions as a catch-all vessel that secures the funds. At this time, the mortgage servicer may elect to distribute the partial amount received to various silos, including principal amount owed, accrued interest, property tax payments, and homeowner's insurance programs.

In some cases, a borrower deliberately makes partial payments, by intentionally dividing his monthly payment into two chunks. In such cases, mortgage servicers can use suspense accounts to house the first partial payment until the second payment is remitted. After receiving sufficient funds to make a full payment, the mortgage servicer then applies the combined balance to the correct account.

Brokerage Suspense Accounts

Similar to business suspense accounts, brokerage suspense accounts temporarily hold funds while transactions are completed. For example, if an investor sells off a group of securities valued at $500, but plans to quickly invest that amount of money in a different set of investments, the $500 from the sale would be moved to a suspense account until it can be allocated toward the new purchase.

Source: Investopedia


PS symbol

In most Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the ps program (short for "process status") displays the currently-running processes. A related Unix utility named top provides a real-time view of the running processes.

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Note added at 2 days 5 hrs (2020-12-17 17:17:55 GMT)
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Asker disagrees with my translation of 'ps'. According to her interpretation' ps = personnel au sol', which means ground-based staff in English.

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 19:21
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neutral  AllegroTrans: I'm not convinded about "PS"; you need to post a reference; also I don't see why this needs to be stated in company accounts
3 hrs
  -> This means that Unix processes the accounts in question and can determine the process status. http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html

agree  Jack Dunwell: Effectively outstanding payments in advance included in debtors
3 days 23 hrs
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Reference: Define it first

Reference information:
A quoi sert le compte 471 ou compte d'attente ?
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Compte 471 compte d'attente

Le compte 471 ou compte d'attente est un compte qui ne peut être utilisé que de manière provisoire. À la clôture de l'exercice, il est soldé pour permettre le calcul des comptes annuels et notamment du bilan.

Le compte 471 ou compte d'attente est le compte qu'utilisent les professionnels de la comptabilité, lorsqu'ils ne savent pas où imputer une opération soit parce que :

il manque une ou plusieurs factures ;
l'imputation de l'opération nécessite une décision (charges ou immobilisations par exemple) ;
l'opération nécessite l'obtention d'informations complémentaires.

Et parce que c'est un compte dit transitoire ou d'attente, il doit impérativement être soldé en fin d'exercice. Il ne pourra jamais figurer au bilan.

Quand peut-on utiliser un compte d'attente ?

Quand doit-on solder un compte d'attente ?


Le compte d'attente utilisé de manière exceptionnelle

Utiliser un compte d'attente est très simple, au point de devenir parfois, une solution de facilité. À chaque fois qu'il faudra comptabiliser une somme mais que l'on ignore dans quel compte l'imputer, le compte 471 pourra être utilisé de manière provisoire.

Mais son utilisation doit rester provisoire. Elle ne dure que le temps d'obtenir la facture ou l'information manquante.

L'article 911-5 du PCG prévoit que les « opérations sont enregistrées dans les comptes dont l'intitulé correspond à leur nature ». L'imputation des opérations dans les comptes est obligatoire


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