February 2025

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Current Asset Ratio

By |2025-02-12T09:27:26+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: Introduction to Liquidity Ratios: Current Asset Ratio

  • As pointed out in the introduction
  • One of the liquidity ratios that you need to be familiar with is the Current Asset Ratio
  • Like all liquidity ratios it measures how well a business will be able to settle its short term obligations as […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Acid Test Ratio / Quick Asset Ratio

By |2025-02-12T09:27:41+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: Acid Test Ratio / Quick Asset Ratio

  • As pointed out in our discussion of the Current Asset Ratio
  • Including stock when calculating stock might not be desirable
  • This is because it might not always be easy to turn the asset of stock/inventory into liquid cash so […]
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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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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Accounting ratios

By |2025-02-12T09:24:34+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Introduction to Accounting Ratios

Introduction to ratios in Accounting

  • Often in business numbers given in isolation are difficult to interpret
  • For example Business A makes a profit of $10 000 while Business B makes a profit of $10 million
  • It would be difficult to know which business better between the two
  • Those new […]
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Principles of Accounting: Profitability Ratios

By |2025-02-12T09:25:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Profitability Ratios

  • So we have already introduced you to accounting ratios
  • These ratios include a group of ratios that are known as profitability ratios
  • Such ratios measure how well a business performed in profit terms in a given period
  • At this level you are required to know how to calculate three profitability […]
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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Liquidity Ratios

By |2025-02-12T09:33:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Liquidity Ratios

  • Liquidity is a measure of how well a business can meet its short term obligations as and when they fall due
  • It is usually expressed in terms of how well the entity/business in question can convert its assets into cash
  • Short term obligations include amounts owed to creditors, bank […]
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Principles of Accounting: Current Asset Ratio

By |2025-02-12T09:34:59+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Liquidity Ratios: Current Asset Ratio

  • As pointed out in the introduction
  • One of the liquidity ratios that you need to be familiar with is the Current Asset Ratio
  • Like all liquidity ratios it measures how well a business will be able to settle its short term obligations as and when […]
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Principles of Accounting: Acid Test Ratio / Quick Asset Ratio

By |2025-02-12T09:36:42+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Liquidity Ratios: Acid Test Ratio / Quick Asset Ratio

  • As pointed out in our discussion of the Current Asset Ratio
  • Including stock when calculating stock might not be desirable
  • This is because it might not always be easy to turn the asset of stock/inventory into liquid cash so as to […]
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Principles of Accounting: Rate of inventory turnover

By |2025-02-12T09:38:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: 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 financial period […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Accounting ratios

By |2025-02-12T09:23:08+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 Accounting Ratios

Introduction to ratios in Accounting

  • Often in business numbers given in isolation are difficult to interpret
  • For example Business A makes a profit of $10 000 while Business B makes a profit of $10 million
  • It would be difficult to know which business better between the two
  • Those […]
Read More
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