February 2025

Principles of Accounting: Departmental Accounting Example

By |2025-02-12T09:32:10+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Departmental Accounts Example

Example Question

From the following list of balances you are required to prepare a departmental Income Statement in columnar form for the year ended 31 March 20X5, in respect of […]

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Principle of Accounting: The concept of goodwill

By |2025-02-12T09:34:30+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Partnerships: The concept of goodwill

  • It is not unusual for a business to be bought or sold as a going concern i.e.
  • The entire business (or business unit) and its related assets and liabilities
  • Often when a business is sold or bought it is at a price that is higher than […]
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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: Example entries when a new partner is admitted

By |2025-02-12T09:25:19+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: Example entries when a new partner is admitted

  • We have looked at entries to be made in the books when a new partner is admitted into the business
  • Now it is time to look at a simple example of the entries involved

Example Question

Partners Chinjekure and Mupfumi share […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Non-Profits Example: Income and Expenditure Account

By |2025-02-12T09:29:59+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 non profit organisations Example

The Receipts and Payments Account

Chivero Angling Club Snack Bar Income Statement

Chivero Angling Club Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 31 […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Bad Debts Recovered

By |2025-02-12T09:33:20+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: Bad Debts Recovered

  • We have looked at the concept of Bad and Doubtful Debts
  • For a number of reasons a debt that was previously considered bad might become recoverable:
    • Maybe due to an agreement
    • A court settlement/order
    • The fortunes of the debtor improves
  • When this happens the debt must be […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Balancing off the Accounts Example

By |2025-02-12T09:37:11+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: Balancing off the Accounts Example

  • We have already looked at the steps you need to take when balancing off the accounts here
  • We will now look at a simple example:

The following transactions took place in the books of Esnath Pasipanodya in the month of August

20X7
August
1 Credit sales G Wadii $310; […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Correcting Errors using suspense account

By |2025-02-12T09:40:58+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: Correcting Errors using suspense account

  • In another topic we learnt about the need, use and purpose of the suspense account
  • In this topic we will learn about how to correct errors that involve the suspense account
  • If you are looking at how errors that are not revealed by the trial […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Manual processing

By |2025-02-12T08:55:57+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: Manual processing

  • Data processing has been performed manually for millennia (thousands of years)
  • Manual data processing literary means data processing by hand
  • Ancient merchants used to record their trading transactions on clay tablets
  • Kings would record their trade, census and tax data on clay, copper, bronze, brass and stone tablets

    • […]

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Principles of Accounting: General Journal opening new books entries

By |2025-02-12T09:21:40+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: General Journal opening new books entries

  • This is a solution to a question found here
  • One of the uses of the Journal is to create a new set of books when a propieter decides to move on to double entry and keeping a proper set of accounts
  • Now we will present […]
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