February 2025

Uses and Limitations of Marginal Costing

By |2025-02-12T09:31:24+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Uses and Limitations of Marginal Costing

  • According to research by CIMA the leading Management Institute
  • Traditional costing methods such as Absorption costing are still in widely used by manufacturing businesses throughout the world
  • There is are reasons for this:

Uses/Advantages of Absorption costing

  • Marginal costing is easy […]
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Inventory valuation methods: LIFO

By |2025-02-12T09:36:43+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Inventory valuation: Inventory valuation methods: Last In First Out (LIFO)

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Absorption of Overheads: Overhead Analysis Sheet Example

By |2025-02-12T09:32:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Absorption of Overheads: Overhead Analysis Sheet Example

  • In this example we will look at how you can use an overhead analysis sheet to allocate and apportion overhead costs
  • It is important to note that while the format shown below is the most popular
  • It is entirely […]
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Reasons Why Businesses/Startups Might Fail

By |2025-02-12T09:08:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Business Studies, ZIMSEC Business Enterprise Skills|

Cambridge AS A Level Business Studies/ ZIMSEC Advanced Level Business Studies/ Business Enterprise Skills Notes: Enterprising/ Entrepreneurship : Reasons Why Businesses/Startups Might Fail

  • As has been hinted on time and time again not all businesses/startups are successful
  • There is a lot of statistics out there about just how many businesses fail int heir first year
  • Some […]
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Inventory valuation methods: LIFO: Example Question

By |2025-02-12T09:39:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Inventory valuation: Inventory valuation methods: Last In First Out (LIFO): Example Question

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Absorption of Overheads: Reapportionment of service costs with no interwork

By |2025-02-12T09:35:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Reapportionment of service costs no interwork

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Inventory valuation methods: LIFO: Solution to Example Question

By |2025-02-12T09:41:14+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Inventory valuation: Inventory valuation methods: Last In First Out (LIFO): Example Question

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Absorption of Overheads: Reapportionment of service costs where there is interwork

By |2025-02-12T09:37:42+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Reapportionment of service costs where there is interwork

  • We have already looked at the need for reapportioning the portion of overheads that would have been allocated and apportioned to service cost centres
  • We also looked a simple example where there was no inter work among departments […]
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A Level Accounting: Introduction to costs and management accounting

By |2025-02-12T09:02:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting

  • All Accounting can generally be divided into two branches:
    • Financial Accounting
    • Cost and Management Accounting

Financial Accounting

  • involves the recording the financial transactions of an organisation
  • And summarising them in periodic financial statements for external stakeholders who want to analyse and […]
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Inventory valuation methods: AVCO

By |2025-02-12T08:56:26+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706)/ ZIMSEC  Advanced Accounting Level Notes: Inventory valuation: Inventory valuation methods: Weighted Average Cost(AVCO)

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