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What is the formula for assets?

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Assets = Capital + Liabilities

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What is the formula for capital?

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Capital = Assets - Liabilities

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What is the formula for liabilities?

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Liabilities = Assets - Capital

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What are non-current assets?

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Assets that the company plans to keep and make use of for a long time (more than a year)

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What are current assets?

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Assets that frequently change in value.

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What are non-current liabilities?

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Amounts likely to be paid in the long term.

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What are current liabilities?

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Amounts that will be paid within the financial period (less than a year)

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What is debt load?

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Amount of money owed by a company or person. The amount can be huge.

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What is accounts?

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The art of recording, classifying, interpreting and summarizing information of a financial nature

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Name 3 internal users of financial information.

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Owners
Employees
Managers
Board of Directors

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Name 3 external users of financial information.

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Suppliers
Banks
Customers
Lenders
Competitors
Tax inspectors
Potential investors

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Name 3 bookkeeper duties.

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Balancing accounts
Preparing trial balances
Payroll records
Keeping inventory records
Storing documentation
Entering and posting transactions

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Name 3 accountant responsibilities.

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Budget and reviews
Prepare financial statements
Supervise accounting staff
Prepare tax assessments
Work with auditors

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What are accounts receivables?

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Anyone who owes the business money for goods supplied to them.

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What are liabilities?

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Money owed by the business to other individuals, businesses or organizations.

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What are accounts payables?

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Money owed by the business to it’s suppliers

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What is bank overdraft?

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When more is withdrawn than what the business has and the account essentially goes into negatives. Only businesses and organizations are allowed bank overdraft.

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What is capital?

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The owner’s investment into the business

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What is drawings?

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The owner taking cash out of business for his/her own private use.

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What is the order of Current Assets on an SoFP?

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Inventory
Receivables
Bank
Cash

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What side is debit ALWAYS on?

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The left side.

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What side is credit ALWAYS on?

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The right side.

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An increase in assets goes to which account? Dr or Cr?

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DEBIT

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A decrease in assets goes to which account? Dr or Cr?

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CREDIT

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An increase in liabilities goes to which account? Dr or Cr?
CREDIT
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A decrease in liabilities goes to which account? Dr or Cr?
DEBIT
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An increase in capital goes to which account? Dr or Cr?
CREDIT
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A decrease in capital goes to which account? Dr or Cr?
DEBIT
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Debit or credit purchases?
DEBIT
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Debit or credit sales?
CREDIT
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Debit or credit returns inwards?
DEBIT
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Debit or credit returns outwards?
CREDIT
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What is an expense?
A recurring payment to a vendor because of the business' continued use of the product/service.
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What is revenue?
Income a company receives from it's normal business activities usually for sale og goods and services to customers.
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Debit or credit expenses?
DEBIT
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Debit or credit revenue?
CREDIT
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You must always ___ expenses. But if there's a ___ you ___ it because it is an opposite action.
debit, refund, credit
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T/F? A trial balance consists of balance b/d s.
TRUE
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In terms of trial balances, name 4 accounts with DEBIT balances.
Assets Expenses Purchases Returns inwards/sales returns
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In terms of trial balances, name 5 accounts with CREDIT balances.
Liabilities Capital Sales Revenue Returns outwards/Purchases returns
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After the trial balance is prepared, what financial statements follow?
The Income Statement The Statement of Financial Position
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What is an income statement?
A statement showing the revenues, expenses, profit or loss of a business based on its activities over a period of time.
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What is a trading account used for?
Used to calculate profit from trade. This profit is called GROSS PROFIT.
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What is a profit and loss account used for?
Used to calculate profit AFTER expenses have been paid. This is called NET PROFIT.
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Formula for Net Sales.
Sales - Returns inwards
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Formula for COGAS (Cost Of Goods Available for Sale).
Opening stock + Purchases + Carriage inwards - Returns outwards
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Formula for COGS (Cost Of Goods Sold).
COGAS - Closing inventory
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Formula for Gross Profit.
Net Sales - COGS
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Formula for NET PROFIT
Gross Profit + any additional revenue - Expenses
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T/F? It's possible to not have a Net Sales.
TRUE
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If you are doing a financial statement and something (like returns inwards) isn't in the table what do you do?
Jump to the next section.
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What are carriage inwards and outwards?
Expenses
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In an Income Statement what does carriage inwards go under?
Less COGS
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NOTE: IN AN SOFP FOR INVENTORY ALWAYS USE CLOSING INVENTORY.
NOTE: IN AN SOFP FOR INVENTORY ALWAYS USE CLOSING INVENTORY.
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What does commissions payables go under?
Expenses.
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In an Income Statement what happens if there is no returns inwards?
The sales figure stays the same and is put under NET SALES.
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What is liquidity?
The ability to turn to cash as fast as possible.
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The Order of Liquidity goes from most to least liquid. List the 4 assets.
Cash Bank Building Land
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What is capital expenditure?
Spending money to buy NCA
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What is revenue expenditure?
Money spent on expenses (day-today things)
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NOTE: WHEN DOING A TRIAL BALANCE WHATEVER SIDE BAL B/D IS ON (CR/DR) IN THE DOUBLE ENTRY IS THE SIDE IT'S ON IN THE TRIAL BALANCE.
NOTE: WHEN DOING A TRIAL BALANCE WHATEVER SIDE BAL B/D IS ON (CR/DR) IN THE DOUBLE ENTRY IS THE SIDE IT'S ON IN THE TRIAL BALANCE.
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NOTE: IF AN ACCOUNT HAS NO BALANCE B/D IT WON'T APPEAR IN THE TRIAL BALANCE BECUASE A TRIAL BALANCE IS A LIST OF BAL B/D.
NOTE: IF AN ACCOUNT HAS NO BALANCE B/D IT WON'T APPEAR IN THE TRIAL BALANCE BECUASE A TRIAL BALANCE IS A LIST OF BAL B/D.

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