February 2025

Inventory valuation methods: AVCO

By |2025-02-12T08:56:26+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: Weighted Average Cost(AVCO)

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Absorption costing:Statement of Profit or Loss

By |2025-02-12T08:57:11+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

  • Profit is the overriding aim of most businesses and for this reason management accountants do also prepare income statements (also known as statement of profit or loss)
  • Although similar in spirit to the Income Statement prepared by Financial Accountants it […]
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A Level Accounting: Introduction to costs and management accounting

By |2025-02-12T09:02:45+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: Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting

  • All Accounting can generally be divided into two branches:
    • Financial Accounting
    • Cost and Management Accounting

Financial Accounting

  • involves the recording the financial transactions of an organisation
  • And summarising them in periodic financial statements for external stakeholders who want to analyse and […]
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Inventory valuation methods: AVCO: Example Question

By |2025-02-12T09:02:46+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: Weighted Average Cost(AVCO): Example Question

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Absorption Costing: Statement of Profit Worked Example

By |2025-02-12T09:07:36+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 Worked Example

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Differences between Financial Accounting and Cost and Management Accounting

By |2025-02-12T09:07:58+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: Differences between Financial Accounting and Cost and Management Accounting

  • We have already looked at the basics and definition of both:
  • Financial Accounting as well as
  • Cost and Management Accounting in the post here
  • Here we will looked at a summarised version between the two:
  • Remember […]
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Inventory valuation methods: AVCO: Solution to Example Question

By |2025-02-12T09:03:26+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: Weighted Average Cost(AVCO): Example Question

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Uses and Limitations of Absorption Costing

By |2025-02-12T09:08:41+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: Absorption Costing: Uses and Limitations of Absorption Costing

  • According to research by CIMA the leading Management Institute
  • Traditional costing methods such as Absorption costing are still in widely used by manufacturing businesses throughout the world
  • There is are reasons for this

Uses/Advantages of Absorption costing

  • Often used […]
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Introduction to costing terms

By |2025-02-12T09:09:49+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: Costing Terms

  • Before we get started with the actual costing process you need to get acquainted with various cost accounting terms and costing
  • It is important to note that this is not meant to be a glossary of all the terms in cost accounting
  • This is […]
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Costing for Labour: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:11:01+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge AS A Level Accounting, Notes, ZIMSEC A Level Accounting|

Cambrige AS and A Level Accounting Notes (9706): Costing for labour

  • In most entities the two largest expenses are usually material/purchases and labour
  • We have already looked at costing for materials (inventory) here
  • We will now examine the costing for labour
  • First we will look at the basic terms involved and different labour setups and scenarios of typical […]
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