February 2025

Principles of Accounting: Goodwill and Partnership businesses

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

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Partnerships: Goodwill and Partnership businesses

  • Now that we have explained the idea of goodwill
  • It is time we examine the concept of goodwill in relation with partnerships
  • As already explained accounting standards require that goodwill be recorded only when a business is bought or sold
  • Partnership business are special in […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The Appropriation Account

By |2025-02-12T09:21:19+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:The Appropriation Account

  • Apart from a few nuances partnerships prepare normal financial statements
  • These are almost indistinguishable from those of Sole Traders
  • They include the usual Income Statement ( Trading and Profit and Loss Account) and the Statement of Financial Position
  • If this is a manufacturing partnership the Manufacturing […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Example entries upon death or retirement of a partner

By |2025-02-12T09:25:49+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

  • We have already examined the entries required to record Goodwill in the books upon the death or retirement of one of the partners here
  • We will now look at an example to demonstrate the stages involved

Death/Retirement Example

Peter, George and Muchineripi have been in partnership for the past five years. They own a retail shop in Harare’s CBD where […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Non-Profits Example: Statement of Financial Position

By |2025-02-12T09:30:05+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

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Provision for Doubtful Debts

By |2025-02-12T09:33:35+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 Provision for Doubtful Debts

  • As we have pointed out in our examination of bad debts the story does not end there
  • In our discussion of bad debts we stated that bad debts are only written of in the period in which they occur
  • Sometimes this happens many periods […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Control Accounts

By |2025-02-12T09:37:19+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: Introduction to Control Accounts

  • We have already pointed out that errors do occur during the bookkeeping and accounting process
  • Some errors can be revealed by creating a trial balance
  • Control Accounts are another mechanism that can be used to discover errors in the books
  • Control Accounts are used to minimize errors […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: An example of how to correct errors in a suspense account

By |2025-02-12T09:41:15+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: An example of how to correct errors in a suspense account

  • We have already looked at the suspense account and why it is needed
  • We will now look at an example

You have extracted a trial balance and drawn up accounts for the year ended 31 December 20X7. There was a shortage […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Electronic Data Processing

By |2025-02-12T08:56:11+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 Notes: Electronic Data Processing

  • With the advent of computers electronic data processing has become prevalent
  • Electronic data processing is the use of computers in recording, classifying, manipulating,presenting and summarizing data
  • In the early days of computers electronic processing was rather limited
  • At first it involved the use of electronic calculators to […]
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Principles of Accounting: Trade Discount

By |2025-02-12T09:26:31+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Trade Discount

  • Generally most businesses especially wholesalers and manufacturers have three types of customers:
    1. The General Public who buy only a few items
    2. Traders who only buy a few items
    3. Traders a large number of goods
  • Traders have to eventually sell to their own customers in their own areas for example […]
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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Accounting Concepts

By |2025-02-12T09:18:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting Notes: Introduction to Accounting Concepts

  • In the real world various measurement standards have been devised to aid communication, comparisons, trade and the sharing of ideas
  • For example units of measurement such as grams, meters, liters etc are universally used
  • We know what a kilogram looks like
  • Before the invention of these standards people […]
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