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Accounting Equation

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Assets - Liabilities = Capital

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Cash Sale

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The sale and the payment happen at the same time.
E.g. Cash/card/cheque.
A till receipt is produced

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Credit Sale

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The seller provides the buyer with the good/service but payment is not made until later.
An invoice is issued.

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The risk of credit sales

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  • Customer may not pa at the appropriate time

- Customer may not pay at all

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The Six Stages of the sales process in order

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  • Quotation
  • Customer order
  • Delivery Note
  • Invoice
  • Credit note (if goods are damaged / returned)
  • Remittance advice note
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6
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Why is coding used

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  • So information can be recorded accurately and in a timely manner
  • Documents can be filed and retrieved efficiently

Usually coding is alpha-numeric

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What are the books of prime entry

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  • Sales daybook
  • Sales returns daybook
  • Purchases daybook
  • Purchases returns daybook
  • Cashbook
  • Petty cashbook
  • Discounts allowed daybook
  • Discounts received daybook
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What is the Sales daybook

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Lists all the business’s invoices sent to credit customers

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Sales returns daybook

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Records credit notes given to customers when products are returned.
Can also be recorded as a negative amount on the sales daybook.

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What is recorded on the cashbook debit side

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Money that is received by the business

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What is recorded on the cashbook Credit side

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Money paid out by the business

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What is the two column cash book

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Two columns:

  • Cash: records amounts received or paid by CASH only
  • Bank: Records amounts paid/received through the bank e.g. cheque / BACS etc.
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Cashbook - and VAT

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When credit customers pay, No VAT is recorded in the Cashbook as this has previously been recorded.

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Purchases daybook

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Records purchase invoices received

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Purchases Returns daybook

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Records goods the business has purchased and then returned due to them being faulty etc.

A list of credit notes received

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Sales Ledger

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A record that contains ledger accounts for every credit customer.
Customer ledger account shows how much each credit customer owes the business

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Purchase Ledger

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A record containing ledger accounts for every credit supplier.
Ledger account shows how much the business owes that supplier.

18
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Sales Ledger Debit and Credits

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Left side (Debit) - Invoices are recorded increasing the amount owed by the customer.

New invoices are debited to the Sales Ledger account.

Right side - (Credit) - Credit notes, payments, Prompt payment discounts are recorded. All decreasing how much the customer owes. Credits the account.

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Purchase Ledger Debits and Credits

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Left side (Debits) - Credit notes, prompt payment discounts, payments are recorded, decreasing how much the business owes the supplier.

Right side (Credit) - Record invoices increasing how much we owe the supplier.

20
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What is the standard rate of VAT

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20%

21
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What can businesses claim VAT back on

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Purchases

22
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The difference between Net and Gross total

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Net - before VAT

Gross - after VAT

23
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What are the three discounts

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  • Trade
  • Prompt Payment (recorded in discounts allowed / received daybook)
  • Bulk
24
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Which discount is not shown on the invoice

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Prompt payment - is issued as a credit note as a business has to decide whether to pay quicker and take the discount.

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Assets

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Items the business owns e.g. cash, machines, amounts owed to the business by credit customers.

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Liabilities

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Amounts the business owes to other parties e.g. loans, overdraft, amounts owed to credit customers

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Income

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Main source of income is sales

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Expenses

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Main source of expenses is purchases

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What does a Debit represent

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  • Increase in Asset
  • Increase in Expenses
  • Increase in Drawings
  • Decrease in Liabilities, Income or Capital

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30
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What does a credit represent

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  • Increase in liability
  • Increase in income
  • Increase in capital
  • Decrease in expenses, assets or drawings
31
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Cash transactions double entry

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Cash payment = Credit (Asset is decreasing, matching debit entry is in the new asset / expense account)
Cash receipt = Debit (Asset is increasing, matching credit entry is made in the sales account)

32
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Double entry for credit

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