What is the journal entry for loan to employee?

The journal entry for a loan to an employee is as follows:

From the above journal entry, we see that there are two accounts-first one is “Loan to employee account” and the second one is “Bank/cash account“. Both are assets for the company.

Loan to employees is considered an asset because they are expected to be returned by the employee within the stipulated time period. If the loan is repaid within one year it will be shown under the current asset and if it is not expected to be collected within a year or in short might be repaid after a year then it will be shown under long-term assets.

Also, we all know Bank/cash is an asset for the company.

Why loan to employee A/c is debited and Bank/cash A/c is credited?

As per the modern rule:

Connecting the above-stated entry with the modern rule “loan to an employee” is debited as money comes back into the business hence there is an increase in an asset therefore debited. While in the second case “bank/cash account” is credited as the money goes out of the business, there is a decrease in assets of the company therefore credited.

We notice that in this entry there is an increase in one asset while a decrease of another asset. Therefore the impact on the balance sheet is Nil.

Let me give you a simple illustration of the above entry

Mr. Ross was an employee of Maxwell Pvt ltd. Mr. Ross was lent Rs 2,00,000 by the company for some emergency purpose. So as per modern rules the accounting entry in the books of the company will be as follows: