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Friday, November 19, 2021
Chapter 11 - Trade Receivables
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Thursday, November 18, 2021
Chapter 10 - Non Current Asset
Welcome to chapter 10 of my POA teacher, which is my blog address for you who ended up here by chance haha lets focus on Non Current Asset or Fixed asset in this topic😊
💨What are Non -Current assets?
Non Current assets are assets that a business uses to assist them to generate income. It can be a machine/property/house/ office equipment or vehicles.
💨2 types of expenditure related to non current assets:
1. Capital Expenditure
Capital Expenditure refers to costs to purchase the non current assets. The non current asset costs include all expenses incurred to bring the fixed asset to a working condition such as import duties, insurance,freight & installation costs are included in the fixed asset costs. Capital expenditure provides benefits to the business for more than 1 financial period. It is recorded in the Balance sheet under the non current asset category.
2. Revenue Expenditure
Revenue expenditure refers to expenses that are used to operate/repair/maintain the fixed asset. Example would be petrol expenses for a non current asset of motor vehicle. The benefit of these exenditure are less than 1 financial period as a result these expenses are not recorded in the balance sheet, they are however recorded as an expenses in the income statement.
💨Double entry for purchasing a capital expenditure
Dr Non current asset $XX
Cr Bank/Trade creditor $XX
**Ps: Include all costs such as import duties, carriage inwards,installation costs that are incurred in bringing the fixed asset to working condition.
☝What is Depreciation?
Ans: Depreciation is the allocation of an asset original cost over the useful life of an asset.
When we depreciate assets, we are applying the matching accounting concept . Rmb that all expenses incurred have to be matched with the income generated within the same financial period? The same applies for depreciation as well --->
Income generated from Non- current Asset MATCH with Expenses generated from the same Non- current asset.
☝What are the types of depreciation?
1. Straight- line method
A Straight line method depreciate non current asset equally throughout its useful life. For E.g. a Machine bought for $10,000 has a useful life of 5 years, how much is its depreciation expenses per year? Ans: $2,000 per year ($10,000/5 years)
2. Reducing- balance Method
A reducing balance method calculates depreciation based on its Net Book Value(NBV) multiply by the depreciation rate. The NBV is calculated by the initial asset original cost less off the accumulated depreciation.
For e.g. Calculate the depreciation amount for a machine with $10,000 purchase price having an accumulated balance of $2,000 at a depreciation rate of 20%.
Depreciation amount = (Original cost - Accumulated depn) X depreciation rate
= (10,000 - 2,000) X 20%
= $1,600
👀Journal entry for depreciation: -
Dr Depreciation expenses - Machine $1,600
Cr Accumulated Depreciation - Machine $1,600
Next, I especially want to focus on the disposal of non current asset which is not difficult once you know the steps, you will laugh if it come out in your exams😂
💨4 steps Disposal of Non-current asset -
Step 1 - Create a sale of Non-current asset Account and transfer the original asset costs from non-current asset to the sale of Non-current asset Account.
Step 2 -Transfer the Non current asset's accumulated depreciation expenses thus far from the accumulate depreciation account to the sale of Non-current asset Account
*Depending on the question, if the question specify "no depreciation is charged in the year of disposal", we can safely extract the depreciation amount in the accumulated depn account, otherwise, we will need to pro-rate the depreciation expenses, for e.g. an asset is sold in March and the business finance year is from 1st Jan to 31 Dec, we will need to
---> Dr Depreciation Expenses $XX
Cr Accumulated Depn Exp $XX
(3/12 X yearly depn exp)
Step 3- Charge the proceed of the sales to the Sale of non current asset account, for e.g. cash proceed
---> Dr Cash at Bank $XX
Cr Sale of Non Current Asset $XX
** May not always be cash, payment could be in the form of an non current asset too.
Step 4 - Calculate the Gain/loss of the disposal of the non Current asset.
Not very difficult right haha, ok come lets attempt this question for a clearer understanding
☝Test your understanding
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Chapter 9 - Inventory
Inventory - every companies need inventory be it a manufacturing or trading one😊. A Service company may need inventory but inventory costs will not be a high porportion of its total costs, a hair saloon may have shampoo or clips but its main costs will still be the hairdressers wages.👩
When a business purchase inventory, the double entry are as such: -
Dr Inventory XX
Cr Cash at bank/ Trade payable XX
When a business returns inventory
Dr Cash at bank/trade payable XX
Cr Inventory XX
☝Question: -
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☝ Question - When a customer returns goods why isn't the Cost of sales and inventory account affected?
Ans: Its because the business like the prev example above has purchases of 200 squids and also sale pf 200 squids which has already take place and cannot be reversed/adjusted.
Instead we Debit Sales returns when a customer returns goods as, it will reflect a reduction to the business sales as such in the income statement: -
☝Question - When do we adjust the inventory account?
Ans: when we return goods back to Suppliers, the double entry is as follow:-
Dr Trade Creditor/Supplier $XX
Cr Inventory $XX
💨Which brings us to the next point, what are the items inside inventory account other than the cost of the product?
1. Freight/transport costs of bringing the good to the company
2. Import duties or custom duties
3. Insurance
4. Packing materials
5. Salaries paid to workers to process the goods to finished product
💨FIFO - First In First Out
What is FIFO, it means First In First Out - it is a method to calculate the cost/product as part of the cost of sales. A business say for example that buys & sell Squid -- I like squid lah haha, the purchase price cannot always be the same right? Henceforth how do we determine the cost of the squid everytime we sell? The FIFO method assumes that the cost of the squid that is sold will be based on the earliest purchase batch of the squid, until the earliest batch of purchase is finish, then it will move to the 2nd batch of earliest purchase as its cost price.
☝Question -
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Chapter 8 - Prepayments and Accural
Lets start on prepayment & accrual:) Prepayment & Accruals is an important topic, it will definitely come out as part of the income statement adjustment and/or a question on its own.
💥Why do we need all these accruals & prepayments?
If you can recall in earlier topics, when we prepare the income statement & Balance sheet, it was prepared based on an earned/incurred basis in the financial period.
For income/expenses which are Outside of the period or which are not earned/incurred, we will therefore have to exclude them. This is to satisfy the accrual accounting concept as well as the Matching accounting concept.
💨FYI, matching accounting concept refers to matching the income earned with the expenses incurred for the financial period.
Expenses first, there are 2 types of expenses namely: (i) Accrued Expenses & (ii) Prepaid Expenses
(i) Accrued expenses refer to an expense that is incurred in the current financial period which will be paid in the next accounting period. No invoice for this expenses has been received yet however the business has incurred this expenses in the current financial period.
☝Question- A business financial year end is from 1 Jan 20X1 to 31 Dec 20x1 however the electricity bills is received half yearly from 1st April 20X1 to 30 Sept 20X1. How about the Electricity expenses from 1st Oct 20X1 to 31 Dec 20X1?
Ans: Accrue the Electricity for this period
Using the electricity bill from 1st April 20X1 to 30 Sept 20X1 as a proxy for e.g. $600 for 6 mths and accrue them:
Accrue Elect from 1st Oct 20X1 to 31 Dec 20X1: 3/6 mths X $600 = $300
Therefore , we Dr Electricity Expenses $300 & Cr Accrued Electricity Exp $300
The electricity expenses will lower the profit and accrued electricity will increase liability in the balance sheet.
(ii)Prepaid Expenses refers to expenses whereby we paid for the expenses which we have not yet incurred in the financial period.
☝Question- Company ABC whose financial year is between 1 Jan 20X1 to 31 Dec 20X1 paid for 15 months club membership from Jan X1 to Mar X2 in Jan X1 for $1,500.
Since from Jan X2 to Mar X2 are considered outside of the financial period, the 3 months payment are therefore prepaid club membership expenses.
Therefore, to record the payment of the club Membership
Jan X1 : Dr Club Membership Exp $1,500 Cr Cash at Bank $1,50
To remove Jan X2 to Mar X2 expenses
Dec X1: Dr Prepaid Membership $300 Cr Club Membership Exp $300
The total club membership expenses would be $1,200 while prepaid club membership would be $300.
Now lets go on to Income, there are 2 types of namely: (iii) Income Receivables & (iv) Income Received in advance
(iii) Income Receivables refers to income which has been earned in the current financial period but will only be received in the next financial period. This could be due to invoicing not done to customer yet which result in the late collection. The revenue for the current financial period should still be recorded.
☝Question - ABC Ltd earns $100/mth for the rental of tables and chairs to Bebe Restaurant. For the year ended 31 Dec 20X1, the rental income of Nov X1 and Dec X2 had not been received . ABC Ltd has not billed Bebe Restaurant and no records exist.
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Friday, November 12, 2021
Chapter 7 - Trial Balance
Once all source documents has been recorded in the journals and the journals has been posted to the ledgers, the business can start to prepare the trial balance.
The trial balance is a balance of all accounts ledger with amount balances at a given date.
The purpose of a Trial balance is :-
💥 To check for any arithmetic errors &
💥 Assist in the preparation of financial statements
Lets do a question and do up the trial balance: -
1. Owner Fittbitt contributed $10,000 cash to the business
2. The company purchased stock at $50,000 list price and obtained a trade discount of 10% for hope of continued patronage and larger quantities purchase from supplier TB.
3. Sales of $2,000 were made to Customer C on credit.
4. Rental and electricity of $5,000 each is accrued on a monthly basis.
1st Step: Prepare the individual ledger accounts : -
The Debits and Credits has to be equal otherwise, a check have to be made to investigate the reason.
There you go, a trial balance:)
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Chapter 6 - Cash Book
Lets start on chapter 6- Cash book & Petty cash book. First on Cash book, the cash book may refer to the cash in hand that is being held by the business or the cash inside the bank account.
Whenver a customer pays up, the double entry will be: -
Dr Cash at bank $XX
Cr Customer A $XX
However, when we introduce cash discount allowed to customer, the double entry changes, for e.g. Customer A pays us $90 for a debt owning of $100 to us, meaning we allowed customer A to enjoy a discount of $10. ($100 - $90). The double entry will be as such: -
Dr Cash at bank $90
Dr Discount allowed(Exp) $10
Cr Customer A $100
Lets move onto Supplier next, for supplier, since we will be the one paying them, the discount will be termed as discount received.
Whever we pay a supplier, the double entry will be :-
Dr Supplier B $XX
Cr Cash at bank $XX
However, when we introduce cash discount received from Supplier B, the double entry changes, for e.g. when we pay Supplier B for a debt owning of $100 to them, meaning we received a cash discount of $10 from supplier B. (Note: its a Discount received for payment to suppliers & Discount allowed for payment received from customers).The double entry will be as below:-
Dr Trade Creditor - Supplier B $100
Cr Cash at bank $90
Cr Discount Received(income) $10
You may ask what's the difference between a trade discount and a cash discount?
1. Purpose - A cash discount is offered to encourage its credit customer to settle their debts within a shorter time than the credit period given. A Trade discount is given to encourage customer to buy in larger quantities.
2. Calculated - A cash discount is a discount off the invoice price while trade discount are not shown on invoices. For e.g. A cash discount of 20% given to early payment, the original invoice amount is $100. The invoice will still shows $100.
If a trade discount of 20% given to encourage increase quantities purchase of $100 original price, the invoice will not state $100, instead it will shows $80 in the invoice.
3. Recording in ledger: - Cash discount are recorded as discount received/allowed while trade discount are not recorded.
4. Discount given: - Cash discount arises when the customer pays up earlier than his credit terms while a trade discount is given at the sale/purchase of goods, before the invoice is issued.
Dishonoured cheques
Dishonoured cheques are cheques that are received from customers which are rejected by the bank, that is no funds inflow. The reasons why a cheque is dishonoured can be found below: -
1. The Cheque has expired - issued more than 6 months ago and no longer valid.
2. The information on the cheque is incomplete or inconsistent, e.g. no date or signature is not consistent with the authorised version.
3. Insufficient funds - Supplier who issues the cheque might not have sufficient funds in the bank account.
For e.g. On Receipt of a cheque by customer C for $$40 for a original debt owning of $50, we will pass the below entries: -
Dr Bank $40
Dr Discount allowed $10
Cr Trade Receivable - Cust C $50
Having informed by the bank that the cheque was dishonoured, we reverse the transaction :-
Dr Trade Receivable - Cust C $50
Cr Bank $40
Cr Discount allowed $10
Lets move onto cash book: -
A cash book normally has 3 columns on each side of debit/credit: - Discount allowed/cash in bank/cash in hand on the debit side and Discount received/cash in bank/cash in hand on the credit side.
Normally a payment voucher needs to be filled in before a business can issue out funds to supplier/staff, for receipt of funds, a receipt will normally be issued after funds has been received ----> Source documents.
Questions
On 30 Jun 20X1,an amount received from Customer A of $90 for settlement of an amount owning of $100, the recording to cashbook will be as such:
Lets try payment to supplier: -
On 30 Jun 20X1, we made a payment of $90 to supplier B for settlement of an amount owning of $100, the recording to cashbook will be as such:
Petty Cash fund
The amount paid from the fund plus the amount remaining in the fund has to be equal to a fixed sum called the imprest amount or float.
Chapter 5 - Bank Reconciliation
Next Chapter Bank Reconciliation, if a question on bank reconciliation were to appear in my O levels, I will be so happy and grinding teeth to teeth😁 That is provided I know how to do!
There are basically 4 steps in a bank reconciliation : -
Step 1. Compare the opening balance of the bank statement and the cash at bank account. Both opening balance has to be correct in order to start your matching.
The 2 items on the bank statement 1.chq no. 118 and 2.Trfr to supplier A amount has been taken in by the business in their Cash at bank account, whereas the opening balance of the Bank Statement - $5,550 Cr has yet to take in the effect of these 2 transactions.
This could be due to customer for chq 118 telling the account clerk beforehand and the account clerk posting the trfr to Supplier A in the accounting system before actually processing the payment.
Nevertheless, by adjusting these 2 entries in the bank statement, the opening balance of the bank statement is the same as the opening balance of the cash at bank account.
Step 2:
Compare the transactions in the debit column of the cash at bank account against the Credit(Deposit) column of the bank statement &
Compare the transactions in the credit column of the cash at bank account against the Debit(Withdrawal) column of the bank statement.
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