Lesson 2_Documents, books, ledger and double entry
Lesson 2_Documents, books, ledger and double entry
Business transactions
Cash transaction Credit transaction
Discount
Trade discounts Cash discounts
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Invoice Name and address of Issued by supplier of goods as a Sales day book Credit sales
supplier and customer; request for payment. For the supplier Purchases day book Credit purchases
details of goods, e.g. selling the Sales returns day book Returns of goods sold on credit
quantity, price, value, salesgoods/services this will be treated as a Purchases returns day book Returns of goods bought on credit
tax, terms of credit, etc. sales invoice. For the customer this
will be treated as a purchase invoice. Cash book All bank transactions
Statement Details of supplier, name Issued by the supplier. Checked with Petty cash book All small cash transactions
(list all and address. Date, invoice other The journal All transactions not recorded elsewhere
invoice) numbers and values, documents to ensure that the amount All transactions are initially recorded in a book of prime entry. This is a
payments made, refunds, owing is correct. simple note of the transaction, the relevant customer/supplier and the amount of
amount owing. the transaction. It is, in essence, a long list of daily transactions.
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Revision
QUESTION 1: State which books of prime entry the following transactions
would be entered into.
Transactions Book of prime entry
Your business pays A Brown (a supplier) $450.00
You send D Smith (a customer) an invoice for $650
Your accounts manager asks you for $12 urgently in order to
buy some envelopes
You receive an invoice from A Brown for $300
You pay D Smith $500
F Jones (a customer) returns goods to the value of $250
You return goods to J Green to the value of $504 1.3.2: LEDGER ACCOUNTS AND
F Jones pays you $500 DOUBLE ENTRIES
Dr Cr
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Ledger Account
Revision
Liabilities, Capital, Sales, Income,
QUESTION Business equation
Net assets at the beginning of 20X7 were $101,700. The proprietor Dr Sales tax-output, Purchase returns Cr
injected new capital of $8,000 during the year and took drawings of Balance brought forward
$2,200. Net assets at the end of 20X7 were $180,000.
What was the profit earned by the business in 20X7?
(Opening balance)
A $72,500 profit
B $88,300 profit
C $84,300 profit Balance carried forward
D $(84,100) loss (Closing balance)
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ASSETS
Debit (DR) Credit (CR)
Double Entry Bookkeeping
Except from (adversely recorded)
Statement Dual effect (duality concept)
Accumulated depreciation/Provision for depreciation
Provision for slow moving stocks of ► Double entry bookkeeping is the method used to transfer the weekly/monthly totals from the books of
prime entry into the nominal ledger.
Provision for doubtful debts/irrecoverable debts Financial ► Double entry bookkeeping is the method by which a business records financial transactions. An
LIABILITIES Position account is maintained for every asset, liability, income and expense. Every accounting event must be
entered in ledger accounts both as a debit and as an equal but opposite credit.
(Balance
CAPITAL ► The duality concept means that each transaction will affect at least two ledger accounts.
Except from (adversely recorded) Sheet)
Summary of steps to record a transaction
Drawings (1) Identify the items that are affected.
SALES/INCOME (2) Consider whether they are being increased or decreased.
COST/COGS (COST OF GOODS SOLD) Income
(3) Decide whether each account should be debited or credited.
Except from (adversely recorded) (4) Check that a debit entry and a credit entry have been made and they are both for the same amount
Return outwards
statement
Total DR side = Total CR side (balance)
EXPENSES
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QUESTION 2: The double entry to record a purchase of office chairs for $1,000 is:
DEBIT non-current assets $1,000, CREDIT cash $1,000. True or false?
QUESTION 3 : Individual customer accounts are kept in the …………? 1.3.3: FROM TRIAL BALANCE TO
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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