Methods of Foreign Trade Payments -Comparative Accounting Study-

Abstract

 The research has been concerned with the modalities of foreign trade payments (foreign trade financing), and made an accounting comparison between them to choose the best way to pay for the imported goods (payment of the real values of imported goods), given the importance of the impact of this activity on the national economy of all countries of the world, especially Iraq for the adoption of a very large amount of imported goods to meet the requirements of the people, which require the flow of huge amounts of foreign currency outside Iraq to pay for these goods, and therefore dealing incorrectly with it leads to the destruction of the national economy and the spread of a number of negative social and economic phenomena of funds smuggling and financing of terrorism also financial and administrative corruption and flooding the local markets with bad and non-standard goods, this issue is becoming increasingly important in Iraq because the high reliance on imported goods to meet the needs of people, the research reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which are:

• The method of Foreign Bank Transfers differs from the method Documentary Credits Issued for Import in terms of enhanced documents for each of them, where the method of foreign bank transfers depends on one or two documents, which makes it easy to falsify, while the method of documentary credits issued for import depends on a complete set (package) of documents, making it difficult to falsify.
• Although the Documentary Credits method is based on a complete set (package) of documents that are difficult to falsify, in fact, it is also possible to falsify their documents but at a much lower level than the level of falsifying the documents of the method of Foreign Bank Transfers.

   The researcher also recommends using Documentary Credits Issued method for import exclusively in the process of foreign trade payments and to prevent the use of foreign bank transfer method for this purpose in order to maintain the strength of the Iraqi national economy to reduce or eliminate the following negative phenomena:

• Money smuggling.
• Financing terrorism.
• Financial and administrative corruption.
• Dumping markets with poor and non-standard goods.