Government assistance is something that certain industries come by at least once a year, i.e. agriculture for instance, and in certain industries much more rarely and even so if certain events Continue reading
Category Archives: 1 Basic Accounting
Entity’s equity
As we have discussed earlier, an entity’s capital or equity is something that the owners have effectively invested into the entity in the form of paying in capital and later on leaving profits undistributed – share capital, reserves and retained earnings comprise the most significant part of equity under normal conditions. An entity’s equity is also labelled as ‘net assets’ of a company reflecting the portion of what’s left of the company once it uses up all its assets to settle its liabilities. Continue reading
Change in residual value
Whilst we have discussed the term ‘residual value’, we haven’t really approached the matter of this being changed.
An asset’s residual value is an estimate the management makes using it’s best knowledge of the asset, it’s condition, it’s possible market at the end of it’s useful life, how extensively it will be used and so on. It’s not just the value the management believes they can get for the asset, but the conditions and inputs for determining the price. Continue reading
Accounting for crediting sales revenue
Crediting sales is something that happens no matter how hard you try and have your invoices correct, your goods shipped in correct amounts and items. There’s a factor you cannot monitor and that’s you customer for instance. They may decide they want something else, something additional and so on. Thus it’s important to understand that crediting sales is absolutely normal and it’s even more important to understand how one should do it instead of avoiding it. Continue reading
Accounting for an early payment discount
Like I mentioned under the accounting entry for simple collection for receivables, there are times when recognizing a collection of a receivable balance can mean that you also have to make not only asset based entries, but also an entry to your profit and loss accounts. Continue reading
Collection of a previously written down receivable
So there was a receivable you once considered was partly uncollectable. Be the reasons what they are, as it happens, you’ve accounted for the write down (note that you haven’t written the receivable off, but just merely down; that is you’ve accounted for an allowance against the positive asset thus diminishing your assets in total by the amount you considered you will not collect from your customer). Continue reading
Controls over production and inventory
Why do you think it’s important to have controls over inventory?
Inventory is related to your company’s operations. They are what you sell to generate revenues, they are your assets you sell regularly to earn profits. Note here that earning profits requires that your goods are priced accurately so as to cover for all kinds of expenses your company incurs. Continue reading