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January 2023

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

By |2022-09-15T12:31:49+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

  • Preparing a bank reconciliation statement is easy
  • In the last example we assumed that the business had a positive balance shown by a a debit bank balance in the bank column of the cash book and a credit balance on the bank statement
  • In […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Bank Reconciliation Statement Overdraft Example

By |2022-09-15T12:31:50+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Bank Reconciliation Statement Overdraft Example

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Cambrige Notes: Sole Trader: Simple Statement of Financial Position Example 2

By |2022-09-15T12:31:08+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Sole Trader: Simple Statement of Financial Position Example 2

From the following trial balance of J Nhiwatiwa after his first year’s trading, you are required to
draw up a trading and profit and loss account (Income Statement) for the year ended 30 June 20X8 as well as Statement of Financial Position as at […]

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Cambrige Notes: Income Statement and Statement of Financial Position: Other items

By |2022-09-15T12:31:09+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Sole Trader: Trading and profit and loss accounts and balance sheets: Other items

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Trial Balance and Errors

By |2022-09-15T12:31:30+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Trial Balance and Errors

  • As already stated there are two main reasons for preparing a Trial Balance:
    1. It is used as a starting point for preparing financial statements
    2. To check for errors in the accounting system
  • Given that the second purpose of a Trial Balance is to check for errors […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Errors that are not revealed by a Trial Balance

By |2022-09-15T12:31:31+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Errors that are not revealed by a Trial Balance

  • A Trial Balance can reveal a number of errors as pointed out here
  • A number of errors however do not affect the balancing of a Trial Balance
  • This means such errors will remain hidden
  • To find out what errors are not […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Correcting Errors

By |2022-09-15T12:31:31+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Correcting Errors

  • Errors are not uncommon in accounting processes
  • Often these errors are discovered and revealed at a later date than on the date they were made
  • Errors should not be corrected by tearing/cancelling out the wrong number or similar methods
  • Instead they are corrected by making Journal entries
  • Examination […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Correcting errors example

By |2022-09-15T12:31:32+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Correcting errors example

The following errors were discovered in the books of K Musana on 31 March 20×7

  1. Purchases $1,410 on credit from A Rombe had been entered in B Rombe’s account
  2. A cheque of $94 […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The Suspense Account

By |2022-09-15T12:31:32+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: The Suspense Account

  • A trial balance is prepared in order to:
    1. Ease the process of preparing financial statements
    2. To reveal errors
  • Errors that are revealed by the trial balance include:
    1. Addition and other arithmetic errors
    2. Single/Incomplete entries into the books
    3. Entering different amounts on the debit and credit sides […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Correcting Errors using suspense account

By |2022-09-15T12:31:33+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Correcting Errors using suspense account

  • In another topic we learnt about the need, use and purpose of the suspense account
  • In this topic we will learn about how to correct errors that involve the suspense account
  • If you are looking at how errors that are not revealed by the trial […]
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