February 2025

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Accruals and Financial Statements

By |2025-02-12T09:43:07+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: Accruals and Financial Statements

  • Accruals are amounts owing at the end of the period when they are due
  • For this reason they are sometimes known as owings
  • There are two types of owings in busines:
    1. Owed income which is accrued income at the end of the period for example when […]
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Principles of Accounting: Three Column Cash Book

By |2025-02-12T09:04:01+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Source Documents: Three Column Cash Book

  • Most businesses offer credit sales in order to increase sales
  • This creates the debtors accounts which are recorded in the ledger and appear in the Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet)
  • Cash and by extension working capital is the life blood of the business
  • To prevent […]
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Principles of Accounting: Errors that are not revealed by a Trial Balance

By |2025-02-12T09:02:14+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Errors that are not revealed by a Trial Balance

  • A Trial Balance can reveal a number of errors as pointed out here
  • A number of errors however do not affect the balancing of a Trial Balance
  • This means such errors will remain hidden
  • To find out what errors are not revealed […]
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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to depreciation

By |2025-02-12T09:34:42+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Introduction to depreciation

  • In the beginning we looked at basic terms
  • One of these terms we defined was fixed assets which we defined assets that are held by a firm in the long-term  and are used in the production of its income and are not expected to be consumed or converted into […]
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Principles of Accounting: Sales Control Accounts

By |2025-02-12T09:22:30+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Sales Control Accounts

  • Sales control accounts present a summarized version of what should be in the Sales Ledger in a given period
  • Below is a typical Sales Control Account:
  • The exact look of the sales control account obviously depends on the nature of transactions involved

Sources of information when preparing

  • It […]
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Principles of Accounting: Accounting for non profit organisations

By |2025-02-12T09:18:08+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Accounting for non profit organisations

  • While it is true that the majority of entities exist primarily to make a profit
  • There are still a large number of organisations which are not for profit
  • While profit is the overriding aim in for profit business
  • Non profit organisations are driven by other goals including:
      […]
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Principles of Accounting: Appropriation Account Example

By |2025-02-12T09:23:55+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Partnerships: Appropriation Account Example

Example Question Appropriation Account

Gandanga, Waeni and Banda are partners. They share profits and losses in the respctive ratios

\tfrac{3}{8} : \tfrac{3}{8}: \tfrac{1}{4}
For the year ended 31 December […]

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Principles of Accounting: Partnership Dissolution Example

By |2025-02-12T09:35:35+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Partnerships: Partnership Dissolution Example

  • We have looked at reasons why a partnership might dissolve here
  • Now we will look at an example question
  • The solution to this question can be found by clicking here

Question

Nkosi,Xo and Zack have been in partnership for several years, sharing profits and losses in the ratio […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principle of Accounting: The concept of goodwill

By |2025-02-12T09:24:14+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: 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 […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Incomplete and Single Entry Example 1 solution

By |2025-02-12T09:29:00+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

  • This the solution to our first example question on incomplete and single entry
  • First we need to calculate the Sales figure for the year ended 30 April 20×9:

Sales Figure Calculation

  • Then we need to ascertain purchases for the year:

Purchases Figure Calculation

Income Statement for the year ended 30 April 20×9

NB This is how arrived at the Miscellaneous […]

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