Profit & Loss Account is the Statement showing indirect expenses and receivable of a Company where as Balance Sheet is the Statement highlighting Assets and Liabilities of the said Company.
Statement of financial position ( Balance sheet) , Statement of Comprehensive Income ( Profit and Loss Account or Income and Expenditure account), Cash flow statement.
All expenses have debit balance which reduces the profit of company and shown under income statement and all revenues are credit account which increases the income of company
That is known as the income statement or can by IAS1 it's known as the statement of comprehensive income.
Income and expenditure account is used by not for profit companies as they are formed for not for profit basis that's why they cannot use profit and loss account.
Finalization of Accounts: It is the accounts of Finanical Statement / Balance Sheet, Income / Earning statement / Profit & Loss A/c & All Ledgers which is finally accounted in Trial Balance for the company.
That is known as the income statement or can by IAS1 it's known as the statement of comprehensive income.
You can do this by creating an income statement, where you minus the costs of good from sales and then also minus expenses from this number, this profit is then added to your retained earnings number on the balance sheet.
In a Profit and Loss Account, you put income tax that you pay to the government in the third section, the appropriation account.
The Income Statement must be prepared first because the Current Profit or Loss (from the Income Statement) is needed in the Equity section of the Balance Sheet to make it balance. Also, the current profit or loss is the starting point to calculate Cash from Operations needed for the Cash Flow Statement.
Prepaid Income is a balance sheet item. Income received in advance is treated as Liability of the firm. The same get transferred to Income Statement / Profit & Loss Account when income is earned. Followed by Accrual Accounting concept and Accounting Period Concept, such income received before they are actually earned are booked as a liability and get transferred to Income Statement as income upon actually earning them.
If taxes of current period then it will shown in profit and loss account, if taxes are still payable then it will be shown in balance sheet under current liabilities section.
* Closing stock * Net profit