Category: Fundamentals of Accounting
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Environmental Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide to Green Accounting Practice
Image Source: FreeImages Environmental accounting, also known as green accounting, is an essential approach for businesses, government agencies, and organizations to evaluate the impact of their operations on the environment. This accounting methodology aims to incorporate the environmental costs, benefits, and performance into the financial decision-making process, ensuring that environmental concerns are considered and addressed…
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Final Account of Non-Manufacturing Company
In this chapter I will discuss the final account of non-manufacturing company under the following head. 14.01 Why Adjustments are made in Final Accounts14.02 Adjustments in the Final Accounts Closing Stock ::: Outstanding Expenses Prepaid or Unexpired Expenses ::: Accrued or Outstanding Income Unearned Income or Income Received in Advance ::: Depreciation Bad Debts :::…
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Final Account – Manufacturing Company
Financial Statements comprise of the following financial statements:(i) Manufacturing Account for manufacturing enterprises,(ii) Trading and Profit and Loss Account and(iii) Balance Sheet. In this chapter I will discuss the final account of the manufacturing company under the following head. 13.01 Manufacturing Account13.02 Trading A/c13.03 Profit and Loss A/c13.04 Operating Profit and Net Profit13.05 Balance Sheet…
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Provisions and Reserves
In fact, provisions and reserves are such considerationswhich relate to the future needs for which a part of the current earning has to be set aside. In thisChapter, I will discuss the accounting treatment of provisions and reserves shown in the BalanceSheet of enterprises.
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Depreciation
Depreciation means a fall in the value of an asset because of usage or with efflux of time or due toobsolescence or accident. Every fixed asset looses its value, once it is put to use In this chapter I will discuss the following topics 11.01 Meaning of Depreciation11.02 Characteristics of Depreciation11.03 Depreciation and Other Related…
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Capital and Revenue-Receipts and Payments
A proper distinction between expenditure and expense, income and receipt, capital, and revenue as regard to expenditure, payments, receipts, profits, and losses, is one of the basic principles of correctaccounting. In this chapter I will discuss the following topics 10.01 Meaning and Difference between Expenditure and Expense10.02 Meaning and Difference between Income and Receipts10.03 Meaning…
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Rectification of Errors
In this chapter of rectification of error, I will discuss the different types of error and method of its rectification under the following heads. 9.01 Types of Errors• Errors Disclosed by the Trial Balance• Errors not Disclosed by the Trial Balance• Locating Errors9.02 Rectification of Errors9.03 Suspense Account [h5p id=”13″]
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Trial Balance
A Trial Balance is a statement of accounts which appears in the Ledger showing either the balancesor the total amounts of debit and credit items. In this I will discuss the following topics 8.01 Meaning of a Trial Balance8.02 Objectives or Utility of a Trial Balance8.03 Limitations of Trial Balance8.04 Methods of Preparing a Trial…
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Bank Reconciliation Statement (BRS)
A Bank Reconciliation Statement is prepared on a particular date to reconcile the bank balance in the Cash Book with the balance as per the Bank Pass Book (or Bank Statement) by showing reasons for differences between the two. In this chapter I will discuss the following topics 7.01 Meaning of a Bank Reconciliation Statement…
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Subsidiary Books
SUBSIDIARY BOOKS book contain Cash Book, Purchases Day Book, Sales Day Book, Purchases Returns Book, Sales Returns Book, Bills Receivable Book, Bills Payable Book and Journal Proper. In this chapter I will discuss the following topics 6.01 Subsidiary Books 6.02 Cash Book 6.02.01 Meaning 6.02.02 Single Column Cash Book 6.02.03…