February 2025

Principles of Accounting: The reducing balance/diminishing balance method

By |2025-02-12T09:40:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: The reducing balance/diminishing balance method

  • As discussed in this topic there are number of ways in which depreciation can be calculated
  • The reducing balance method is one of these methods
  • It is also known as the diminishing balance method
  • A fixed percentage is deducted from the first from cost then subsequently […]
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Principles of Accounting: Sales Control Account Example

By |2025-02-12T09:27:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Sales Control Account Example

Question

Prepare a sales ledger control account from the following information for October 20X6, carrying down the balance at 31 October:

  • Oct 1 Sales ledger balances […]
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Principles of Accounting: Statement of Affairs Example

By |2025-02-12T09:42:48+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 Example

  • We have explained what a Statement of Affairs is
  • Now we will look at an example of how to prepare a Statement of Affairs

Question

W Soja started his business on 1 April 20X2 with $35,000 in a bank account. Unfortunately
he did not keep proper books […]

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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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Inventory valuation methods

By |2025-02-12T09:25:41+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

  • The figure for inventory is obtained from actual physical stock takes
  • We have already looked at the exact definition of inventories during the introduction to inventories and when we looked at IAS 2
  • It has also been pointed out […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Solution to Capital and Current Accounts example

By |2025-02-12T09:21:01+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: Capital and Current Accounts Example

The Capital Accounts

The Current Accounts for the partners

    […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Goodwill and Partnership businesses

By |2025-02-12T09:24:22+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

  • Now that we have explained the idea of goodwill
  • It is time we examine the concept of goodwill in relation with partnerships
  • As already explained accounting standards require that goodwill be recorded only when a business is bought or sold
  • Partnership business are […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Rate of inventory turnover

By |2025-02-12T09:27:51+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 Liquidity Ratios: Rate of inventory turnover

  • Proprietors often want to know how “well” their business is doing
  • Besides such measures as profitability
  • one way of estimating liquidity is through the rate of inventory turnover ratio
  • The ratio estimates the number of times inventory is sold or used in a given […]
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