Chapter
Accounting Fundamentals
Financial AccountingSection A: Accounting Fundamentals (15%)15 marks
10 topics
- Four Frameworks of Accounting (Conceptual, Legal, Institutional and Regulatory)
- Accounting Principles, Concepts and Conventions
- Capital and Revenue Transactions - Capital and Revenue Expenditures, Capital and Revenue Receipts
- Accounting Cycle – Charts of Accounts and Codification Structure, Analysis of Transaction – Accounting Equation, Double Entry System, Books of Original Entry, Subsidiary Books and Finalisation of Accounts
- Journal (Day Books and Journal Proper - Opening Entries, Transfer Entries, Closing Entries, Adjustment entries, Rectification entries), Ledger
- Cash Book, Bank Book, Bank Reconciliation Statement
- Trial Balance (Preparation and Scrutiny)
- Adjustments and Rectifications: Depreciation and Amortisation
- Adjustments and Rectifications: Adjustment Entries and Rectification of Errors
- Adjustments and Rectifications: Accounting Treatment of Bad Debts and Provision for Doubtful Debts, Provision for Discount on Debtors and Provision for Discount on Creditors