IGCSE Accounting Blog

Rules of Debit and Credit

dineshba — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:37:51 +0000

Accounting Mind Maps

A New mindmap for IGCSE Accounting has been uploaded on dineshbakshi.com. This mindmap is very helpful for students to understand the basic rules of accounting i.e. debit and credit. This mindmap can be downloaded from www.dineshbakshi.com Mind Map section in PDF format. Check out hundreds of other mind maps on Economics and Business Studies in the same section.

Control Accounts Revision notes

dineshba — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:43:36 +0000

What are Control Accounts?

Not all the transactions done in a business are in cash. Now days, businesses do a lot more transactions in credit and thus there is a long list of debtors and creditors. Since the bulk of entries are made in the accounts of debtors and creditors, these two classes of accounts are taken out of the General Ledger and put in a subsidiary ledger.

Subsidiary ledgers include

Sales Ledger: Which contains all debtors accounts

Purchases Ledger: contains all creditors’ accounts.

This is where control account comes in…

Control account is a summary of all the accounts in the subsidiary ledgers.

The summary of all accounts in the Sales ledger make up the Debtors control account and the summary of all accounts in the Purchase Ledger is known as the Creditors control account.

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Revision Notes – Incomplete records/single entry system

dineshba — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:29:44 +0000

dineshbakshi.com has recently been updated with revision notes on Incomplete records. These notes cover the following learning objectives:

prepare opening and closing statements of affairs;
calculate net profit or loss from changes in capital over time;
calculate sales, purchases, gross profit, debtors (trade receivables) and creditors (trade payables) and other figures from incomplete information;
prepare income statements (trading and profit and loss accounts) and balance sheets;
make adjustments to financial statements (final accounts)
apply the techniques of mark-up, margin and stock (inventory) turnover to arrive at missing figures.

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Worksheet- Depreciation-2

dineshba — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:27:55 +0000

Another worksheet on Depreciation is available at dineshbakshi.com Worksheets Section . It has short answer questions mostly calculation based. These questions tests the students understanding on different methods of depreciation. As per the latest syllabus 2010 for IGCSE accounting three methods of depreciation are tested. These are revaluation method, straight line and diminishing value method.

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Worksheet – Partnership Accounts

dineshba — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:20:36 +0000

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Worksheet- Depreciation

dineshba — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:02:23 +0000

This worksheet tests the students on two most important methods of depreciation. These are straight line method and diminishing balance method. Both the methods are tested in the form of structured question. Thorough but interesting worksheet.

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Worksheet-Capital/Revenue-Receipt & Expenditure

dineshba — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:31:09 +0000

A new worksheet on classification of receipts and expenditure is now avialable on dineshbakshi.com Worksheets section. This topic is many times tested in Paper 2 of IGCSE accounting. This worksheet is brief but very effective. It tests the students on their knowledge of classifying a firms reciepts & expenditures as Capital or Revenue.

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Study notes on Partnership

dineshba — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:24:17 +0000

dineshbakshi.com presents compact, to the point revision/study notes for IGCSE Partnership.

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Soon this section will be updated with multiple choice questions also. Keep watching!!

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Worksheet- Trial Balance

dineshba — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:56:18 +0000

Hi folks,

Its been long since I posted something on the blog. I am sorry for that as I was busy enjoying my holidays. However, now I am back and you would see a lot of buzz on this blog. Accounting will be my priority in the coming months.

Anyways, this worksheet on Trial balance tests the students on important questions. Looking at their frequency of appearance I can surely say that these questions are ‘examiner’s favourite’ .

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Worksheet: Accounting Concepts

dineshba — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:03:43 +0000

Test your knowledge about accounting concepts now available on dineshbakshi.com

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Keep checking this blog regularly as more worksheets and structured questions on IGCSE and GCSE accounting are on your way!!

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