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What are final accounts? What are its constituents?
Solution
- The business entities are interested in knowing periodically the results of business operations carried on and the financial soundness of the business.
- In other words, they want to know the profitability and the financial position of the business.
- These can be ascertained by preparing the final accounts or financial statements.
- The final accounts are usually prepared at the end of the accounting period on the basis of balances of ledger accounts shown by the trial balance.
The final accounts or financial statements include the following:
- Income Statement or Trading and Profit and Loss Account and
- Position Statement or Balance Sheet.
The purposes of preparing the financial statements are:
- To ascertain the financial performance of an enterprise and
- To ascertain the financial position of an enterprise.
- The income statement and balance sheet are prepared for these purposes respectively.
- An income statement gives the manner in which the profit or loss for an accounting period is arrived at.
- Hence, at the close of the accounting period, all nominal accounts (i.e. expenses, losses, revenues, gains, purchases, purchases returns, sales, and sales returns) are to be closed by transferring to the income statement or trading and profit and loss account.
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Shri Yashraj and Company, Kolhapur, purchased furniture for Rs 60,000 on 1.4.2007.On 1.10.2009 the company sold out a part of the furniture for Rs 6,000, the original cost of which on 1.4.2007 was Rs 12,000.
The company charges depreciation at the rate of 10% p.a. on Reducing Balance method. The financial year of the company ends on 31st March, every year.
Prepare: Furniture Account and Depreciation Account for the years 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10.
Select the most appropriate alternative from those given below and rewrite the statement.
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State whether the following statement is True or False.
Trading account is a nominal account.
State whether the following statement is True or False.
Trial Balance is the base of Final account.
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Following is the Trial Balance of Geeta Enterprises. You are required to prepare a Trading and Profit & Loss Account for the year ended 31st March 2019 and the Balance Sheet as of that date after taking into account the additional information provided to you.
Trial Balance as of 31st March, 2019
| Particulars | Debit Amount (₹) | Credit Amount (₹) |
| Capital A/c | 50,000 | |
| Drawings | 1,750 | |
| Opening Stock | 8,000 | |
| Purchases & Sales | 16,500 | 22,500 |
| Returns | 625 | 750 |
| Carriage Outward | 425 | |
| Wages - Productive | 1,000 | |
| Unproductive | 600 | |
| Salaries | 1,000 | |
| Travelling expenses | 1,125 | |
| Trade Expenses | 325 | |
| Fuel and Coal | 250 | |
| Discount | 460 | 550 |
| Sundry expenses | 225 | |
| Bad Debts | 200 | |
| Plant & Machinery | 20,000 | |
| Furniture | 5,500 | |
| Packing expenses | 175 | |
| Sundry Debtors & Creditors | 10,090 | 6,750 |
| Cash in hand | 2,200 | |
| Investments | 10,250 | |
| Reserve for Doubtful debts | 150 | |
| 80,700 | 80,700 |
Additional information:
1. Closing stock of goods on 31st March 2019 valued at ₹ 7,100 at cost price and ₹ 7,500/- as market price.
2. Travelling expenses include ₹ 125 spent on personal traveling.
3. ₹ 175 is to be written off as bad debts which were due from Mr. Ashok, a debtor, and 5% R.D.D. is to be maintained on debtors.
4. Reserve for discount on debtors as well as on creditors is to be maintained at 2% and 3% respectively.
5. Provide 10% depreciation on Plant & Machinery and Furniture.
Following is the Trial Balance extracted from the books of Raju Traders. You are required to prepare Trading A/c, Profit and Loss A/c for the year ending on 31st March 2019 and Balance Sheet as on that date after considering the additional information given below.
Trial Balance as of 31st March 2019
| Debit Balance | Amount (₹) | Credit Balance | Amount (₹) |
| Raju's Drawings | 5,000 | Capital | 2,00,000 |
| Opening stock | 30,000 | Sales | 1,64,000 |
| Wages | 5,000 | Returns outward | 2,400 |
| Purchases | 60,000 | Creditors | 40,000 |
| Trade Expenses | 800 | Discount | 1,600 |
| Royalties | 1,600 | Bills payable | 13,600 |
| Salaries | 20,000 | ||
| Debtors | 80,000 | ||
| Plant & Machinery | 56,000 | ||
| Printing & Stationery | 2,400 | ||
| Bad debts | 900 | ||
| Discount | 1,200 | ||
| Furniture | 16,000 | ||
| Advertisement | 3,000 | ||
| Carriage outwards | 600 | ||
| Computers | 1,20,000 | ||
| Bills Receivable | 16,000 | ||
| Cash in hand | 1,100 | ||
| Cash at Bank | 2,000 | ||
| 4,21,600 | 4,21,600 |
Adjustments:
- Closing stock is valued at ₹ 40,000 at Cost Price and ₹ 44,000 as Market Price.
- Provide Depreciation on Plant and Machinery, Furniture, Computers @ 5%, 10%, 15%, respectively.
- Salaries are paid for 10 months only.
- Further Bad debts amounted to ₹ 400 and provide 10% R.D.D. on Sundry Debtors.
- Advertisement is paid for 2 years.
From the following Trial Balance of Manish Enterprise, Prepare the Trading Account and Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 31st March 2019 and Balance sheet as of that date.
Trial Balance as of 31st March 2019
| Debit balances | Amount (₹) | Credit Balances | Amount (₹) |
| Cash in hand | 5,200 | Capital | 50,000 |
| Opening stock | 10,370 | Bank Loan | 15,000 |
| Goodwill | 10,000 | Bills Payable | 8,500 |
| Patents | 4,000 | Creditors | 38,260 |
| Cash at Bank | 4,400 | General Reserve | 1,500 |
| Freight | 2,500 | Dividend | 2,000 |
| Power & Fuel | 1,500 | Interest on Fixed Deposit | 3,440 |
| Furniture | 12,000 | Sales | 40,000 |
| Purchases | 35,260 | ||
| Mobile charges | 3,200 | ||
| Factory Salaries | 2,400 | ||
| Repairs | 800 | ||
| Lighting | 1,000 | ||
| Carriage outward | 360 | ||
| Professional charges | 1,240 | ||
| Debtors | 40,000 | ||
| Plant & Machinery | 13,700 | ||
| Office Equipments | 10,000 | ||
| Carriage Inwards | 770 | ||
| 1,58,700 | 1,58,700 |
Adjustments:
1. Closing Stock was ₹ 32,000.
2. Write off 50% of patents, depreciate Plant & Machinery by 10% p.a and Office Equipment by 20%.
3. Reserve for bad debts is to be created 5% and discount on Debtors 2%.
4. Outstanding expenses Mobile charges ₹ 300 and Freight ₹ 500
5. Charge Interest on Capital @ 5%.
6. Goods of ₹ 2,000 distributed on free samples.
