By Mrs Pru Marriott, Professor J R Edwards, Professor Howard J Mellett

The totally revised and up to date variation of this textbook offers an available creation to accounting for college students coming to the topic for the 1st time. It embraces the elemental recommendations and underlying theoretical options in accounting and exhibits how those are utilized in a number of circumstances.

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Effect on providers of finance: Trade creditors decrease by £2,000. 4 at the end of this chapter. 2. The cycle consists of the following four stages: Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 The purchase of goods on credit that gives rise to balance sheet entries for trade creditors and stock. The sale of stock on credit results in a profit being realized or a loss incurred. At this stage some of the stock is replaced by trade debtors in the balance sheet. The collection of trade debts. This produces a change in the composition of the firm’s assets, from debtors to cash.

This view may attach rather too much significance to profit, but widespread agreement that profit is an essential product of business activity in the UK can safely be assumed. There are basically two competing claims on the profits generated by business activity: T 1 Withdrawals. The owner requires a satisfactory return on his or her investment in the form of drawings or dividends. An inadequate return will cause him or her to close down the business and invest his or her money elsewhere. 2 Reinvestment.

1 reminded us that profit produces an equivalent increase in the gross assets of a firm; the profit of £80 resulted in gross assets increasing from £2,700 to £2,780. 1) draws attention to the fact that profit also results in an equivalent PROFIT AS THE INCREASE IN CAPITAL 35 increase in net assets; these are up from £2,000 to £2,080. If the firm were to suffer a loss, net assets, and therefore the owner’s capital, would be reduced by the amount of the loss. 2. 2 £ Capital 7,600 Current liabilities Trade creditors 1,200 4,800 8,800 8,800 On 1 January 20X2 Elm sold, on credit for £480, goods that cost £600 some weeks ago.

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