The belief in LIFO costing method is based on the assumption that material issued to manufacturing department should carry the cost of most recent purchase, although the physical flow of material inventory may actually be different. It assumes that the most recent costs are significant to match with recent revenues in the profit / loss [...]
Conventional financial statements i.e. income statement and balance sheet do not give true picture of the cash flows of the firm. Because income statement incorporates many non-cash expenditures and revenues for the sake of ascertaining profitability. Similarly balance sheet tells us the overall financial position with respect to firms’ assets and liabilities and includes monetary [...]
Average a simple but important tool for decision making which is used by almost every individual, businessman, and even institutions on daily basis. It would be hard to find a person on this planet who ever have not been used averages to know daily, monthly, or yearly income and expenses or to analyze any information [...]
First in first out is the method of inventory valuation. As the name implies under FIFO method the first unit of raw material received in the stock is to be issued first to manufacturing department. In other words it assumes that the material is issued from the oldest supplies. FIFO follows the belief that each [...]
Accounting is called the language of business, in which different jargons are used for each concept. Depreciation is one of them and it is the most important concept used in accounting, finance and economics. Depreciation is the process, in which the value of fixed assets except Land diminishes over the period of time due to [...]
The accounting method used by most of the companies is double entry bookkeeping. To explore the benefits of double entry system it is important to understand the single entry bookkeeping. The single entry bookkeeping is similar like a checkbook register which have only single column each transaction. Single entry bookkeeping record positive and negative amount [...]
Debits and credits are the accounting terminologies which are used to describe the increase or decrease in the financial components. Any movement in these components can be specified by using the term debits and credits. In T-accounts, left column represents debits while right column represents credits.
Rules of Debits and Credits
There are five components of financial [...]
Accounting cycle is a sequence of accounting procedures which are used to record, classify and summarize accounting information. The accounting cycle begins with the initial recording of business transactions and concludes with the preparation of formal financial statements summarizing the effect of these transactions upon the assets, liabilities and owner’s equity of the business.
The term [...]