February 2025

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Trade Discount

By |2025-02-12T09:35:43+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: Trade Discount

  • Generally most businesses especially wholesalers and manufacturers have three types of customers:
    1. The General Public who buy only a few items
    2. Traders who only buy a few items
    3. Traders a large number of goods
  • Traders have to eventually sell to their own customers in their own areas for […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

By |2025-02-12T09:39:07+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: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

  • Preparing a bank reconciliation statement is easy
  • In the last example we assumed that the business had a positive balance shown by a a debit bank balance in the bank column of the cash book and a credit balance on the bank statement
  • In […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The Going concern concept and consistency concept

By |2025-02-12T09:42:26+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 Going concern concept and consistency concept

  • Going concern and consistency concepts are important in the accounting world

The going concern concept

  • It is one of the most fundamental concepts
  • It forms the assumption on which all accounting operations are carried out
  • According to this concept all accounting transactions must be recorded […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Importance of Accounting

By |2025-02-12T09:46:02+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: Importance of Accounting

  • Accounting plays an important role within the organisation
  • Accounting is important for a number of reasons:

Importance and role of accounting

  • It allows the business to record transactions for future reference
  • Provides information about whether a business is profitable or not
  • Provides information about the liquidity of the […]
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Cambrige Notes: Purchases Journal and Purchases Ledger example

By |2025-02-12T08:59:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Purchases Day Book example. Image credit Frank Wood's Business Accounting 1. Purchases Day Book example. Image credit Frank Wood’s Business Accounting 1.

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Purchases Journal and Purchases Ledger example

  • J Dzungu has the following purchases for the month of May 2015:
  • May 1 From D […]
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Cambrige Notes: The Double Entry Concept

By |2025-02-12T09:02:35+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

  • You need to pay close attention because this is where the accounting part in accounting begins.
  • This is the basic rule in accounting which states that any accounting transaction should be recorded twice.
  • Every debit should have a corresponding credit and every credit should have a corresponding credit.
  • No matter the […]
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Cambrige Notes: The contents of a Balance Sheet/Statement of Financial Position

By |2025-02-12T09:05:57+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: The contents of a Balance Sheet/Statement of Financial Position

  • While a Statement of Financial Position could just be presented as a listing of the credit and debit balances at a given date
  • It would be more useful to record the information in a consistent and meaningful way
  • This would allow
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Overhead apportionment, allocation and allotment

By |2025-02-12T09:19:56+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: Overhead apportionment, allocation and allotment

  • As already pointed out here at the first step of absorption costing  involves the processes of:
    1. Allocation
    2. Allotment and
    3. Apportionment
  • In very simple cases where there is only product none of this is necessary as overheads can be easily […]
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Marginal Costing: Statement of Profit Worked Example

By |2025-02-12T09:16:58+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: Marginal Costing: Statement of Profit Example

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Commerce: Benefits of Beneficiation And Value Addition

By |2025-02-12T09:40:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Benefits of Beneficiation And Value Addition

  • The meaning and nature of beneficiation and value addition can be found here
  • Value addition refers to the enhancement of a product’s value usually through the manufacturing process
  • Beneficiation refers to value addition in the mining sector
  • There are benefits to carrying out beneficiation and […]
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