February 2025

Cambrige Notes: The Accounting Cycle

By |2025-02-12T09:46:14+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: The Accounting Cycle

  • As has already been pointed out accounting includes the recording and presentation of transactions
  • This recording and presentation is done in a systemic manner i.e. it follows a set pattern
  • This pattern is known as the accounting cycle
  • The accounting cycle refers to the sequence of six […]
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Cambrige Notes: The Cash Book

By |2025-02-12T08:59:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cash Book Example. Frank Wood's Business Accounting I Cash Book Example. Frank Wood’s Business Accounting I

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts: Books of Original Entry: Cash Book

  • The Cash Book consists of the cash account and the bank account put together in one book.
  • The result is that all monies paid […]
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Cambrige Notes: Double Entry Exercise and Solutions

By |2025-02-12T09:02:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts: Double Entry Exercise and Solution[/title

  • You are required to open the asset and liability and capital accounts and record the following transactions for June 20X8 in the records of T. Moyo. 20X8
  1. June 1 Started business with $12,000 in cash.
  2. 2 Paid $11 700 of the opening cash into a bank account for […]
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Cambrige Notes: Sole Trader: Simple Statement of Financial Position Example 1

By |2025-02-12T09:06:10+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: Simple Statement of Financial Position Example 1

  • From the following trial balance of S Madondo, extracted after one year’s trading, prepare a trading and profit and loss account for the year ended 31 December 20X6 and  a Statement of Financial Position as at 31 December 20×6

Inventory at 31 […]

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Overhead absorption and absorption rates (OAR)

By |2025-02-12T09:21:03+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: Absorption Costing:  Overhead Absorption Rates (OAR)

  • As already pointed out elsewhere production overheads are usually calculated at the beginning of the accounting period
  • This would allow, for example, the business to determine how much cost to assign to a unit before calculating the selling price

    • […]

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Reconciliation of absorption and marginal profits

By |2025-02-12T09:20:51+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: Reconciliation of marginal costing and absorption costing profits

  • Because absorption costing includes the cost of fixed overheads in:
    1. Opening and closing inventory and
    2. Cost of sales
  • There will be inevitable differences in profit figures calculated using the two methods
  • These differences will arise whenever there […]
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Commerce: The Business Environment: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:44:10+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: The Business Environment

  • It is a common cause that businesses do not operate in a vacuum
  • There are a number of factors that affect the way a business operates
  • These factors can be external to the business i.e. outside the business itself
  • They can, however, be internal i.e. factors that are to […]
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AS A Level Business: Planned Economy

By |2025-02-12T09:08:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Business Studies, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Business Studies, ZIMSEC Business Enterprise Skills|

Cambridge AS A Level Business Studies/ ZIMSEC Advanced Level Business Studies/ Business Enterprise Skills Notes: Planned/Command Economy: Features 

  • A planned economy is also known as a command economy
  • To recap society faces an economic problem of how to allocate its scarce resources
  • It has to answer three basic questions:
    • What to produce
    • How to produce and
    • For […]
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AS A Level Business: Public Limited Companies

By |2025-02-12T09:36:22+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Business Studies, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Business Studies, ZIMSEC Business Enterprise Skills|

Cambridge AS A Level Business Studies/ ZIMSEC Advanced Level Business Studies/ Business Enterprise Skills Notes: Types of businesses: Public Limited Companies

  • There are generally two forms of limited liability companies:
  • In this post, we will examine the features, advantages and disadvantages of public limited companies
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AS A Level Business: The Macro-economic And Micro-economic Business Environment

By |2025-02-12T09:02:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Business Studies, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Business Studies, ZIMSEC Business Enterprise Skills|

The Macro-economic […]

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