January 2023

Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

By |2022-09-15T12:31:49+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

  • Preparing a bank reconciliation statement is easy
  • In the last example we assumed that the business had a positive balance shown by a a debit bank balance in the bank column of the cash book and a credit balance on the bank statement
  • In […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Introduction to depreciation

By |2022-09-15T12:31:38+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) 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 […]
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Principles of Accounting: Discount Allowed

By |2022-09-15T12:33:32+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

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

  • As already pointed out elsewhere cash and cash equivalent are the life blood of business
  • It is also common cause that most businesses do sell goods on credit
  • To encourage prompt payment businesses offer discounts to their customers
  • When a business offers a […]
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Principles of Accounting: Both prepaid and accrued income and expenses

By |2022-09-15T12:33:16+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Both prepaid and accrued income and expenses

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Principles of Accounting: Sales Control Accounts

By |2022-09-15T12:33:07+02:00January 24th, 2023|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: William Sachikonye Income Statement

By |2022-09-15T12:32:57+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Single entry and Incomplete records: Example 2

  • This is a solution including workings for the question posted here
  • We are attempting to create an Income Statement so naturally we will start by calculating the sales figure for the year

Sales calculation for the year ended 31 March 20×6

NB This is not a […]

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Principles of Accounting: Solution to Capital and Current Accounts example

By |2022-09-15T12:32:50+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Partnerships: Capital and Current Accounts Example

The Capital Accounts

The Current Accounts for the partners

  • This hopefully […]
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Principles of Accounting: Partnership Dissolution Entries

By |2022-09-15T12:32:36+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

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

  • While the dissolution of each partnership is no doubt unique
  • There are entries that are typical to the dissolution of each partnership
  • During dissolution the following entries are typically made:
    1. When we transfer provision such as for bad debts/depreciation to their respective asset accounts:
      1. Dr […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Format of Income Statement for Companies

By |2022-09-15T12:32:15+02:00January 24th, 2023|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Accounting for Limited Liability Companies: Income Statement

  • As already pointed out in our introduction
  • The structure of the Income Statement ( Profit and Loss part) prepared for limited liability companies such as Private Limited (PVT LTD) and Public Limited Liability companies
  • is especially different from those prepared for sole traders […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Partnership dissolution

By |2022-09-15T12:32:12+02:00January 24th, 2023|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 and Partnership businesses: Revaluation of Partnership Assets

  • While it is true that a new partnership is created when partners leave and join the partnership
  • The entries required to show this are actually different from the entries needed when a partnership does actual dissolve
  • From an accounting point […]
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