February 2025

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Capital and Revenue Expenditure

By |2025-02-12T09:34:15+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 Capital and Revenue Expenditure

  • Now that we have explained the differences between capital and revenue expenditure
  • It is time to look at how these are recorded in the books
  • Obviously the treatment is not the same

Accounting Treatment of Capital Expenditure

  • Capital expenditure must be recorded in the General […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Control Accounts

By |2025-02-12T09:37:19+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 Control Accounts

  • We have already pointed out that errors do occur during the bookkeeping and accounting process
  • Some errors can be revealed by creating a trial balance
  • Control Accounts are another mechanism that can be used to discover errors in the books
  • Control Accounts are used to minimize errors […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The Suspense Account

By |2025-02-12T09:40:44+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 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: G Musandu: Solution: Statement of Financial Position

By |2025-02-12T09:44:09+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: Sole Trader: Trading and profit and loss accounts and Statement of Financial Position: Other items

  • This is the Statement of Financial Solution for the Trial Balance Question found here.

G Musandu

Statement of Financial Position as at 30 September 20×9

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Discount Allowed

By |2025-02-12T08:57:09+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: Source Documents: Three Column Cash Book: Discount Allowed

  • As already pointed out elsewhere cash and cash equivalent are the life blood of business
  • It is also common cause that most businesses do sell goods on credit
  • To encourage prompt payment businesses offer discounts to their customers
  • When a business offers […]
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Cambrige Notes: Partnership Business

By |2025-02-12T09:00:54+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: Partnership Business

Characteristics/Features

  • A partnership is an unincorporated association of two or more individuals to carry on a business for profit. General partnerships are usually made up of 2-20 partners. Special partnerships such as those formed by professionals who are not allowed to form companies e.g. Accountants, Dentists etc. can have 2-∞ […]
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Cambrige Notes: Uses and the importance of the Trading and Profit and Loss Account

By |2025-02-12T09:04:12+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: Uses and the importance of the Trading and Profit and Loss Account

  • People set up businesses to make a profit
  • Profit is the main objective of most privately owned businesses
  • However a business may fail to make a profit
  • The business may make a loss instead
  • The owners of a business […]
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Cambrige Notes: Public Limited Companies

By |2025-02-12T09:07:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Business Organisations: Public Limited Companies

Formation

  • Membership is open to the public.
  • Membership is by invitation through a prospectus.
  • Formed by at least two shareholders and there is no upper limit.
  • Governed by the Companies Act.
  • The founding members have to draw up a prospectus, articles and memorandum of association and a statutory declaration and […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The Appropriation Account

By |2025-02-12T09:21:19+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:The Appropriation Account

  • Apart from a few nuances partnerships prepare normal financial statements
  • These are almost indistinguishable from those of Sole Traders
  • They include the usual Income Statement ( Trading and Profit and Loss Account) and the Statement of Financial Position
  • If this is a manufacturing partnership the Manufacturing […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Partnership Entries for Goodwill: Changes in Profit Sharing Ratios

By |2025-02-12T09:24:35+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: Partnership Entries for Goodwill: Changes in Profit Sharing Ratios

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