February 2025

Principles of Accounting: Purchases Control Accounts Example

By |2025-02-12T09:25:38+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Purchases Control Accounts Example

You are required to prepare a purchases ledger control account from the following for the month of April. The balance of the account is to be taken as the amount of […]

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Principles of Accounting: Statement of Affairs

By |2025-02-12T09:42:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Single entry and Incomplete records: Statement of Affairs

  • As already covered in the introduction to single entry and incomplete records
  • One of the first required steps in order to prepare financial statements
  • Is to prepare a Statement of Affairs
  • A Statement of Affairs is a summary of an entity’s asset and liabilities

    • […]

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Principles of Accounting: Example question Manufacturing Accounts

By |2025-02-12T08:58:14+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Example question Manufacturing Accounts

Manufacturing Accounts Example Question

E Makonese is a manufacturer. His trial balance at 31 December 20X8 is as follows:

Additional information:

  1. Stocks at 31 December 20X8: […]
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Principles of Accounting: Partnership Entries for Goodwill: Changes in Profit Sharing Ratios

By |2025-02-12T09:35:55+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Partnership Entries for Goodwill: Changes in Profit Sharing Ratios

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Principles of Accounting: Partnership Dissolution Solution to Example Question

By |2025-02-12T09:38:04+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Partnerships: Partnership Dissolution Example

  • We looked at the basics of partnership dissolution here
  • We also posted an example question here
  • Now we will present the solution to that question

The realisation account

  • Debtors and Receivables are just one and the same thing
  • Creditors can also be referred to as […]
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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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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: General Journal opening new books entries

By |2025-02-12T09:35:37+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: General Journal opening new books entries

  • This is a solution to a question found here
  • One of the uses of the Journal is to create a new set of books when a propieter decides to move on to double entry and keeping a proper set of accounts
  • Now we will […]
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