DOUBLE ENTRY ACCOUNTING : DOUBLE ENTRY ACCOUNTING Accounting is defined as :
Art of recording, classifying and summarizing
In a significant manner
And in terms of money
Transactions and events
Which are, in part at least, of a financial character
And interpreting the results thereof.
Double entry book keeping : Double entry book keeping Art enables one to attain objectives
Recording of transaction in orderly manner
Classifying refers to grouping of accounts
Summarizing thro’ Trial Balance, Trading, Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet.
Terms of money : common language that is through the help of money example :
Double entry : Double entry If business has 6 machines, 10 tons of raw materials, 10 fans etc, impossible to know which is more value unless they are expressed in a common language.
Financial character : recording is based on financial events. Poor lighting and ventilation, relationship between workers and management, though affect the earning capacity cannot be recorded due to constraints to express in monetary terms.
Double entry : Double entry Starts with recording and ends with presentation of financial information.
Each transaction or event has two aspects or sides : DEBIT and CREDIT
Accounting trail : it’s a sequence of activities in an accounting process
Accounting trail : Accounting trail Transaction / event
Preparation of vouchers
Recording in the primary books
Posting in the secondary books
Preparation of trial balance
Preparation and presentation of financial statements
MEANING : MEANING Transaction : a monetary deal made between two parties. Transfer of money or money’s worth from one person to another
Event : a happening of consequence to an entity
Voucher : it’s a written document. Receipt, Payment voucher and Journal voucher.
Financial statements : end products of the accounting process.
ACCOUNTING TERMS : ACCOUNTING TERMS Capital : investments by owner either in cash or in kind. It’s a claim on business
Drawings : withdrawal from business either in cash or in kind or both
Debtor : owing from persons to business. Collectively known as Sundry Debtors.
Creditor : owing from business to persons. Collectively known as Sundry creditors
Revenue : it’s the income. Includes both.
Terms : Terms Expenditure : it’s the expenses incurred for earning revenue. Cost of manufacture, cost of sales, cost of service.
Expense : expenditure whose benefit is enjoyed and exhausted immediately example salary, rent, wages, premium
Goods : commodities or merchandise held by businessmen for sale.
CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS : CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS Purchases : goods bought for cash and credit
Sales : Goods sold for cash and credit
Sales Returns : Received from customer
Purchase Returns : Returned to suppliers
Opening Stock : Beginning unsold goods
Closing Stock : End unsold goods
Classification : Classification Customer : Person who purchased goods
Supplier : Person who sold goods
Casting : Totaling of books of accounts
Invoice : Statement prepared for sale
Assets : Resources of the business
Liabilities : Dues of the business
Equity : Claims against assets by owner
CLASSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS : CLASSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS Personal and Impersonal
Personal Accounts include Customers (Debtors) and Suppliers (Creditors)
Impersonal Accounts consists of Real and Nominal Accounts.
Real Account deals with Assets
Nominal Account deals with income and expenses
TYPES OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS : TYPES OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Natural Personal Accounts : Relate to individuals or natural persons made of flesh and bones.
Artificial : Relate to artificial persons recognized by Law as persons – Manipal Learning Ltd, SBI, RBI, BEL. BHEL etc.
Representative : Groups or representative such as Debtors, Creditors, outstanding expenses and prepaid insurance.
REAL ACCOUNTS : REAL ACCOUNTS Tangible Real Account such as cash, building , goods, furniture, machinery, investments.
Intangible Real Account such as Goodwill, Patent, Trade Marks, Preliminary expenses.
NOMINAL ACCOUNTS : NOMINAL ACCOUNTS Deals with expenses or losses and gains and income
Known as fictitious accounts
They do not represent any tangible assets
They are not in existence and cannot be seen
They are “Ghost” in nature
ACCOUNTING EQUATION : ACCOUNTING EQUATION Its known as Accounting Equivalence concept
Basic Accounting Equation is :
ASSETS (A) = LIABILITIES (L) + EQUITY (E) or A = L + E
Each transaction will lead to a combination of other.
Its unique
EFFECT OF EQUATION : EFFECT OF EQUATION FIRST EFFECT
Increase in Assets
Decrease in Assets
Increase in Liabilities IDENTICAL EFFECT
Decrease in Assets
Increase in Liabilities
Increase in Equity
Increase in Assets
Decrease in Liabilities
Decrease in Equity
Decrease in Liabilities
increase in Assets
Decrease in Equity
Effect of equation : Effect of equation Decrease in Liabilities
Increase in Equity
Decrease in Equity Increase in Liabilities
Decrease in Assets
Increase in Equity
Decrease in Liabilities
Increase in Assets
Increase in Liabilities
Decrease in Assets
NOTE ON EQUITY : NOTE ON EQUITY Increase in Equity means introduction of capital.
Injection of funds will not occur frequently
Owner introduces funds through cash contribution + available surplus returned by business : excess of income over expenses.
Revised Equation is :
A = L + Eo + (Y – X) where Eo is Equity at the beginning , Y is the Income and X is the Expenses; hence Y – X results in surplus which is invested in the business by the owner without being withdrawn the surplus from the business.
UNIT 2 : PRIMARY BOOKS : UNIT 2 : PRIMARY BOOKS Transactions are entered first here.
If it is omitted, it escapes the process
Its known as “Journal” that is daily record
Recording the transactions in the books is known as “journalizing”
Steps involved : identifying a transaction, identifying the elements of the transaction, applying the ground rule and recording.
GROUND RULES OF JOURNALISATION : GROUND RULES OF JOURNALISATION Increase in Assets and decrease in Liabilities + Equity = DEBIT
Decrease in Assets and increase in Liabilities + Equity = CREDIT
Expenses and Losses = DEBIT
Income and Gains = CREDIT
RULES OF DEBIT AND CREDIT : RULES OF DEBIT AND CREDIT Debit signifies
Increase in Asset accounts
Decrease in Liability accounts
Decrease in Equity Credit signifies
Decrease in Asset accounts
Increase in Liability accounts
Increase in Equity
What is difference between credits and debits ? : What is difference between credits and debits ? When you deposit money in a Bank, the cashier will tell you “I’ll credit your account”. You assume that cash is a credit and so credits are good. This view is further strengthened when reductions in the accounts are referred to as “debits”. Besides, if you remove the “i” from debit, you get the word “debt”. So, you think, “debits” are bad.
Credits and debits : Credits and debits Unfortunately, this conditioning that we receive at the Bank causes real confusion in the accounting class. Why ? Because, in accounting, we understand that our Bank Account is a debit account, and debts are credit accounts – just the opposite of what most people would expect.
Credits and debits : Credits and debits In fact, debits and credits are neither good nor bad. Each transaction that is made whether it be a good transaction (deposits) or bad transaction (bills) has both a debit and an equal credit. That’s why it is called “double entry” accounting. When the cashier tells you that he or she will “credit your account”, they are also entering a debit for the same account that they do not
Credits and debits : Credits and debits tell you about. The same is true for the debits to your Bank Account – there is also a credit being generated the same time. For example when you deposit money with your Bank Account, their liability to you increases. Since liabilities are credit accounts, they are crediting to your account. When you withdraw cash from the Bank, their liability to you decreases, hence your account is debited.
Credit and debits : Credit and debits I think the best way to understand debits and credits is to identify two components of each transaction :
What did you receive ?
Where did come from ?
Debit is what you receive and the credit is the source of the item or service you received.
POINTS TO BE NOTED FOR JOURNALISING : POINTS TO BE NOTED FOR JOURNALISING Read the transaction and identify the two accounts involved.
Identify the two elements
Find the type of transaction :cash or credit
Categorize the accounts, personal, real, nominal
Apply the Golden Rule
Enter the date of transaction
Enter the amounts in respective columns
Watch the wordings “received “ “paid”
Identify the Returns, either sales or purchases
Provide a narration
TYPES OF JOURNAL : TYPES OF JOURNAL Purchases Day Book to record credit purchases
Sales Day Book to record credit sales
Return Outward : Returns to suppliers
Return Inward : Returns from customers
Bills Receivable : Acceptance by customers
Bills Payables : Bill raised by suppliers
Cash Book to record cash and bank receipts and payments.
Journal Proper to record all residual transactions
ASSIGNMENTS : ASSIGNMENTS Purchase and sale of goods for cash
Purchase and sale of goods for credit
Return of goods : Sales and Purchases
Purchase and sale of Assets
Transactions on income and expenses
Receipts and payments in cash and cheque
Transactions with owner : capital and drawing
Opening entry
CASH BOOK : CASH BOOK Records daily cash receipts and payments
Refers to both cash and bank transactions
Its both book of prime and secondary which means it is both a Journal and a Ledger
Types : Simple, Double and Three column
Debit indicates receipts and credit payments
Maintenance of cash book avoids manipulation and enables reconciliation.
Discount columns are not balanced.
Debit side discount is loss and credit gain.