February 2025

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The Prudence concept and the Business entity concept

By |2025-02-12T09:42:03+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: The Prudence concept and the Business entity concept

  • In another topic you were introduced to the idea of accounting concepts
  • These are the underlying principles that govern the accounting discipline
  • In this topic we will look at the following concepts:
  • The Business Entity Concept
  • The Prudence Concept

Business Entity Concept

  • You […]
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Cambrige Notes: Financial statements

By |2025-02-12T09:45:32+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: Financial statements/ Final Accounts

  • The accounting function exists mainly to record, analyse and present financial information
  • Presentation of financial information involves the preparation of what are known as final accounts
  • They are called final accounts because they are the last accounts to be prepared
  • They are also […]
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Cambrige Notes: The General Journal

By |2025-02-12T08:58:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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

As already said there are several books of Prime Entry namely:

  •  The Sales Day Book
  • The Purchases Day Book
  • The Returns Inwards Day Book
  • The Returns Outwards Day Book.
  • The Cash Book

 

  • Each of these books is devoted to a particular type of transaction. For example all Purchases returns […]
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Cambrige Notes: Users of Accounting Information

By |2025-02-12T09:02:08+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC Principles of Accounts Notes: Users of Accounting Information.

  • Users of accounting information can be divided into two groups:
  • Internal users and,
  • External users.
  • Users of accounting information are sometimes known as stakeholders since they are affected and in turn affect the concerned entity’s operations.

Internal Users

  • These are found inside the business entity itself and they include:
  • Owners– Determine […]
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Cambrige Notes: Sole Trader: Statement of Financial Position

By |2025-02-12T09:05:30+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Introduction to the Statement of Financial Position

  • It is also used to be known as the Balance Sheet
  • It is a statement of the assets, liabilities, and capital of a business at a particular point in time
  • It is a financial snap shot of the business at a given point in […]
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Cambrige Notes: Determining whether an account has a debit or credit balance

By |2025-02-12T09:08:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes:Determining whether an account has a debit or credit balance

  • Sometimes in a bid to confuse you during the examination examiners will present you with a jumbled list of balances which might require you to determine whether the accounts should be on the debit side or credit side of the trial balance.

    • […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Statement of Financial Position for Companies

By |2025-02-12T09:22:31+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Accounting for Limited Liability Companies: Statement of Financial Position

  • We have looked at the Income Statement for companies here
  • We will now look at the structure of the Statement of Financial Position
  • The Statement of Financial Position is almost identical to the one prepared for sole traders
  • In fact the […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Revaluation of Partnership Assets

By |2025-02-12T09:25:58+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Accounting for Partnerships: Goodwill and Partnership businesses: Revaluation of Partnership Assets

  • It is often the case that when a business is sold the selling price of its assets would differ from their book values
  • In such instances there is either a profit or loss on the sale of the assets
  • This […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Account: Incomplete and Single Records Example 2

By |2025-02-12T09:29:11+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Single entry and Incomplete records: Example 2

  • Our first example on this topic was relatively straight forward
  • We will now look at a more challenging and comprehensive example
  • On how to create Financial Statements in cases where only single entry and incomplete records are kept

The Question

William Sachikonye runs a second-hand […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Double entry for Depreciation

By |2025-02-12T09:32:11+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes:  Double entry for Depreciation

  • Once depreciation has been calculated using either:
  • The straight line method or
  • The reducing balance method
  • It is recorded in the books using double entry
  • Before we mention the entries it is important to state this

The old method of accounting for depreciation by recording it in the […]

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