What will be the effect on the financial statements if the closing inventory figure is decreased?
Your company provides a number of staff with lap-top computers, as well as pocket calculators. It capitalizes the cost of the computers and depreciates them over several years, but writes off the cost of the pocket calculators in full, against profits, in the period in which they are purchased.
The main justification for this difference in treatment is:
Which one of the following best describes the stewardship function?
A company's cashbook has an opening balance of £4,860 debit. The following transactions then took place:
(a) Cash sales - £23,500, including VAT of £3,500
(b) Receipts from customers - £18,600
(c) Payments to payables £12,400, less cash discounts of £240
(d) Bank Charges - £260
What will be the resulting balance in the cash book?