February 2025

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Non-Profits Example

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Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Accounting for non profit organisations Example

On 1 January 20X8 The Lake Chivero Angling Club had the following assets:

  • Cash at bank $200
  • Snack bar stocks $800
  • Club house buildings $12,500

During the […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Bad Debts

By |2025-02-12T09:33:06+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 Bad Debts

  • To understand the concept of Provision for Doubtful debts first we must look at Bad Debts
  • As outlined during the discussion of the matching/accruals concept
  • Most businesses conduct business on credit in addition to cash sales
  • Typically with cash sales payment is received when the […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The Purchases Ledger

By |2025-02-12T09:36:20+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 Purchases Ledger

  • A purchase is when good(s) are bought with intention of selling them later,
  • usually these goods will be sold at a profit
  • Items bought with the intention of using them in the business are known as assets
  • We have already looked at how to make entries in the […]
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Cambrige Notes: Income Statement and Statement of Financial Position: Other items

By |2025-02-12T09:39:45+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 balance sheets: Other items

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Accruals and Financial Statements

By |2025-02-12T09:43:07+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: Accruals and Financial Statements

  • Accruals are amounts owing at the end of the period when they are due
  • For this reason they are sometimes known as owings
  • There are two types of owings in busines:
    1. Owed income which is accrued income at the end of the period for example when […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Manual processing

By |2025-02-12T08:55:57+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 Notes: Manual processing

  • Data processing has been performed manually for millennia (thousands of years)
  • Manual data processing literary means data processing by hand
  • Ancient merchants used to record their trading transactions on clay tablets
  • Kings would record their trade, census and tax data on clay, copper, bronze, brass and stone tablets
  • […]

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Cambrige Notes: The Sales Returns and Purchases Returns Day Books

By |2025-02-12T08:59:54+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: The Sales Returns and Purchases Returns Day Books

  • Most businesses allow customers to return goods that they have bought for various reasons
  • For example if the goods are ill-fitting, of the wrong color, they exceeded ordered quantity, were damaged in transit or are not functioning as expected i.e. malfunctioning.
  • The return […]
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Cambrige Notes: Introduction to Limited Liability Companies

By |2025-02-12T09:03:14+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Introduction to Limited Liability Companies

  • Contrary to popular belief among students and common people the word […]
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Cambrige Notes: Receipts and till slips

By |2025-02-12T09:06:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Receipts and till slips

Receipt

  • Is issued by a seller to a buyer.
  • It is used to acknowledge a cash payment.
  • It is evidence of a cash sale.
  • It shows:
    1. The names and addresses of the buyer and seller.
    2. date of receipt issue.
    3. Reason for payment.
    4. Description Of goods-if it is a receipt for […]
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Commerce: Management Functions Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:21:59+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Management Functions: Introduction

  • No doubt you have heard of people who work as managers within a business
  • These people carry out management duties in the organisations in which they are employed
  • It is important to note that depending on an organisation a manager can be known by several titles
  • Popular titles for […]
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