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Financial Statements

A financial statement is a record of the financial activities of a person or business entity where all related financial information are presented in an orderly manner and can be easily understood.

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Which Accounting standard governs treatment of property and equipment?

IAS - 16 Property, Plant and Equipment deals with matters governing of property and equipment.

Is an operating lease a long-term liability?

An operating lease is not shown on the balance sheet. They are charged directly to the profit and loss.

Financial leases are the types of leases where the company will own the asset when they've paid off all the lease payments. This type of lease is shown in liabilities, it will be split showing what's due in one year (current) and the rest due after one year (long term).

What is the importance of a trial balance?

Trial Balance is used to check the arithmatical accuracy only.... it does not prove that everything is correct.

If you can use VAT paid on equipment as a credit against VAT output do you depreciate it?

According to IFRS IAS #16:

"The cost of an item of property, plant and equipment comprises:

(a) its purchase price, including import duties and non-refundable purchase

taxes, after deducting trade discounts and rebates."

If you are using the VAT input paid on equipment as a credit against the future VAT output received on sales, you would book the equipment cost net of VAT.

What is the difference between retained earnings and retained profit?

Retained profits are profits of that particular financial year (After taken into account of dividends payouts, transfer to reserves and etc) without adding profits from the previous year. When Retained profit of the current year is transferred to the balance sheet after adding previous year profits, it is called retained earnings.

(Retained profit + Retained earnings b/d = Retained earnings c/d).

What the difference between expenses and prepaid expenses?

Expenses are those amounts the benefit of which is already taken by business while prepaid expenses are advance payments for those expenses which company will incur in future.

What the difference between expense and prepaid expense?

Expense is that amount benefit of which has already taken by company while prepaid expense is that amount paid the benefit of which not yet taken but available to be taken in future period.

What the difference between expense and prepaid expense with example?

Expense is any cost that the firm incurs to earn the particular revenue. Most expense are required to be paid except for a few "non-cash expense" such as depreciation.

Prepaid, as suggested, are expenses paid in advance but have not yet "used" to generate revenue. It is to be used at a later date. One example of a prepaid expense would be rent i.e. prepaid rent. The owner pays the rent for the next 2 months at $100 per month.

Prepaid rent = $200.

Why is return inward in debit side of trial balance?

Because when someone returns goods we hv more stock, hence we debit it in the trial balance, note that it is taken away from sales in the p & l just as expenses are debited in the trial balance and taken away in the p & l

Is opening stock an asset or liability?

Opening stock is the asset and shown under balance sheet as current asset, because this opening stock of material will be utilized to prepare units of products for sales in future.

Does additional stock increase retained earnings?

Retained earning only increased due to prior year operating profits and that's why it has no effect of any kind of additional capital introduced which directly increase the subscribed or paid up capital and not retained earnings.

Is bonds payable normally debit or credit?

Bonds Payable would be a liability and therefore normally maintain a credit balance.

What is the difference between retained earnings and reserve?

Retained earnings are current year profit and Reserves are allotted the amount from last year profits as reserves.

What is cash budgut?

Cash budget determines how much cash is needed at what stage and plan the availability of cash in case of shortage and investment in case of excess cash.