February 2025

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The effects of errors on profit

By |2025-02-12T09:41:33+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: An example of how to correct errors in a suspense account

  • We have looked at several types of errors that may occur in accounting
  • There are some of errors that do not affect the subsequent profit figure
  • There are however some errors that will result in a wrong profit figure […]
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Cambrige Notes: Discount Allowed and Discount Received entries

By |2025-02-12T09:44:53+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 Cash Book:Discount Allowed and Discount Received entries

  • Consider the following entries and enter them into the books of J Haudzwi

July 20×9
1 Started the business with $1000 Cash
3 Deposited $600 from the cash at hand into the bank
10 Bought goods on Credit from J Mafana for $360
15 Sold Goods […]

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Cambrige Notes: Books of Original Entry

By |2025-02-12T08:58:03+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: Books of Original Entry

  • These are the books in which transactions are first recorded for example when a credit sale is made.
  • They are also known as subsidiary books.
  • When a transaction takes place in the business it is often important and imperative to record as much details about a transaction […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The petty Cash Book

By |2025-02-12T09:01:37+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: Source Documents: The petty Cash Book

  • As a business grows it is customary to have a Petty Cash Book and a Cash Book
  • In large businesses if all small transactions were to be recorded in the in the Cash Book it would become unwieldy
  • Imagine the example of a retail giant […]
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Cambrige Notes: The format of a Simple Trading and Profit and Loss Account/Income Statement

By |2025-02-12T09:04:48+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 format of a Simple Trading and Profit and Loss Account

The Name of the Business/Proprieter

NB The exact names and types of expenses and other income will vary from business to business you should take your cue from the examination question

Trading and Profit and Loss Account and the Expense […]

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Cambrige Notes: Source Documents and their uses

By |2025-02-12T09:08:00+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: Source Documents and their uses

  • Accounting is the systematic recording of financial transactions in monetary terms.
  • Every time a business makes a transaction in the real world a paper trail is created.
  • The paper trail is known as/are a source document(s)
  • A source document is the original document that shows that a transaction took place.
  • For […]
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Absorption Costing: Statement of Profit or Loss Example

By |2025-02-12T08:59:00+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: Statement of Profit or Loss Example

  • We have already looked at the format of a Statement of Profit or Loss under Absorption Costing here
  • It is now time to look at an example

Example Question

Oakwood Manufacturing Ltd started in business on 1 January 20×8 […]

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Commerce: Management Functions: Planning

By |2025-02-12T09:23:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Management Functions: Planning

  • In the introduction we looked at management is
  • To reiterate management can be defined as doing work through others
  • It can also be defined in terms of the functions/duties of a manager
  • Management as an organisational/business activity that involves the planning, organizing, leading/commanding, controlling and coordinating of the […]
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The Nature And Purpose Of Economic Activity

By |2025-02-12T09:32:03+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: Enterprising: The Nature And Purpose Of Economic Activity

  • As we live our lives we interact with businesses (enterprises) on a daily basis
  • The shop from which we buy bread and other groceries
  • The vendor who sells us vegetables
  • As is already […]
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AS A Level Business: Internal Business Environment

By |2025-02-12T09:22:44+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: Internal Business Environment

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