February 2025

Principles of Accounting: Income Statement and Appropriation Account Example

By |2025-02-12T09:29:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Accounting for Partnerships: Partnership Financial Statements Example

  • This is the first part solution to the question that was posted here
  • It examines the basic structure of Financial Statements of partnerships
  • In this part we will look at the Income Statement and Appropriation Account for Save and Moyo

Solution

Save and Moyo

Income Statement and Appropriation […]

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Principles of Accounting: Format of Income Statement for Companies

By |2025-02-12T09:42:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: 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 and partnerships

    • […]

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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Profitability Ratios

By |2025-02-12T09:23:21+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: Profitability Ratios

  • So we have already introduced you to accounting ratios
  • These ratios include a group of ratios that are known as profitability ratios
  • Such ratios measure how well a business performed in profit terms in a given period
  • At this level you are required to know how to calculate three […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Rate of inventory turnover

By |2025-02-12T09:27:51+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 Liquidity Ratios: Rate of inventory turnover

  • Proprietors often want to know how “well” their business is doing
  • Besides such measures as profitability
  • one way of estimating liquidity is through the rate of inventory turnover ratio
  • The ratio estimates the number of times inventory is sold or used in a given […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Causes of Depreciation

By |2025-02-12T09:31:10+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 depreciation

  • We have already explained that depreciation is the wasting away of fixed assets
  • We have also explained that it is treated as an expense in the Income Statement where it should appear at least once a year
  • Now we will look at the causes of depreciation
  • It is […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Accounting for Partnerships

By |2025-02-12T09:35:01+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: Introduction to Accounting for Partnerships

  • It is quite common for two or more people to enter into a business partnership with one another
  • We have already looked at types of business entities here
  • You can also read more about Partnerships in a post found here
  • While most of the […]
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Cambrige Notes: Principles of Accounting: The effects of errors on profit

By |2025-02-12T09:41:33+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: An example of how to correct errors in a suspense account

  • We have looked at several types of errors that may occur in accounting
  • There are some of errors that do not affect the subsequent profit figure
  • There are however some errors that will result in a wrong profit figure […]
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Principles of Accounting: An example of how to correct errors in a suspense account

By |2025-02-12T09:15:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts 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 of […]

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Principles of Accounting: The Revaluation Method

By |2025-02-12T09:42:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Calculating/Estimating depreciation: The Revaluation Method

  • When there are a few big fixed assets it is easy to:
    1. Ascertain the cost
    2. Estimate its useful life
    3. Calculate/estimate its depreciation
    4. Account for its disposal
    5. Calculate/estimate profit or loss on disposal
  • For each asset because it is worth the effort
  • There are times when this […]
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Principles of Accounting: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

By |2025-02-12T09:39:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts 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 reality […]
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