February 2025

Uses and the importance of the Trading and Profit and Loss Account

By |2025-02-12T09:17:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

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  • 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 […]
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Cash Discount,Discount Received and Discount Allowed

By |2025-02-12T09:05:08+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

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  • Businesses prefer it if their customers pay quickly
  • Businesses may thus accept a sum slightly lower than the invoice amount in settlement of a debt if payment is […]
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Principles of Accounting: Discount Received

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

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Source Documents: Three Column Cash Book: Discount Received

  • It is customary for businesses to sell goods on credit
  • In order to encourage prompt payment a business might offer a cash discount
  • In such instances the business will accept a lesser amount in settlement of a debt in exchange for early payment
  • On […]
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Principles of Accounting: Errors that are not revealed by a Trial Balance

By |2025-02-12T09:02:14+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Errors that are not revealed by a Trial Balance

  • A Trial Balance can reveal a number of errors as pointed out here
  • A number of errors however do not affect the balancing of a Trial Balance
  • This means such errors will remain hidden
  • To find out what errors are not revealed […]
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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to depreciation

By |2025-02-12T09:34:42+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Introduction to depreciation

  • In the beginning we looked at basic terms
  • One of these terms we defined was fixed assets which we defined assets that are held by a firm in the long-term  and are used in the production of its income and are not expected to be consumed or converted into […]
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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Control Accounts

By |2025-02-12T09:18:22+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts 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 as […]
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Principles of Accounting: Single entry and Incomplete records

By |2025-02-12T09:40:56+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

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

  • It is not at all uncommon for business owners to have incomplete accounting records
  • A lot of SMEs (small and medium enterprises) often do not keep double entry accounting systems
  • Consider the example of a banana vendor it would be ridiculous for him to keep a double […]
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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Manufacturing Accounts

By |2025-02-12T09:42:49+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Manufacturing Accounts

  • Thus far we have taken it for granted that businesses purchase everything they sell
  • While it is true that a lot of business purchase inventory and sell it at a profit
  • There are some businesses that manufacture products
  • These manufacturing businesses typically:
    • Acquire Raw materials
    • Process this raw materials […]
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