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WHAT ARE INCORPORATED BUSINESSES? Incorporated businesses are set up with Companies House and are governed by the Companies Act; and these require more stringent rules to be complied with along with the tax rules to comply with. The incorporation process establishes a company which becomes a separate legal entity from its owners. They are required … Read More
WHAT IS A LEGAL STRUCTURE? Legal Structure is how an organisation is set up to operate in the eyes of the law, which affects how it pays its taxes, the degree of liability on the owners and restrictions on how it is able to operate. Your task: Identify 3 differences between incorporated businesses and … Read More
The boxes on the VAT return show the following information: Box 1 VAT due in this period on sales and other outputs This contains the VAT charged on all sales and receipts for the period of the VAT return less any VAT on sales returns. This represents the total output tax. This total should be … Read More
Capital and Revenue expenses Capital expenditure occurs when a business spends money in purchasing non-current assets for the business operations or when it spends money in adding value or improving an existing non-current asset. This will include delivery and legal costs in acquiring the non-current assets. Non-current assets are items owned by the business which … Read More
Non-Current Asset Register Non-current assets can turn out to be large amounts of expenditure in some businesses and these will require some control measures being put in place to ensure the costs are being monitored. In setting controls in place, many businesses maintain a non-current assets register in addition to the general ledger entries. The … Read More
EOQ is the most economic re-order quantity of inventory which helps the business both ensure that the business is not holding too much inventory (which ties down working capital) and that they don’t keep so little inventory, which can interrupt the production process. These two situations can prove to be costly to the business and … Read More
A basic test on prepaid income: You are working on the accounting records of a business for the year ended 31 March 20X7. You are looking at the rent income for the year and this includes receipts for the following periods: Apr 20X6 – Mar 20X7 £5,040 Apr 20X6 – Jun 20X7 £5,625 Identify … Read More
A basic test on accrued income: You are working on the accounting records of a business for the year ended 31 March 20X7. You are looking at the rent income for the year and this includes receipts for the following periods: Apr 20X6 – Jan 20X7 £5,900 Apr 20X6 – May 20X7 £6,720 Identify … Read More
A basic test on prepayments: You are working on the accounting records of a business for the year ended 31 March 20X7. You are looking at the rent expense for the year and this includes payments for the following periods: Apr 20X6 – May 20X7- Office 1 £5,040 Apr 20X6 – Jan 20X7- Office 2 … Read More
A basic test on accruals: You are working on the accounting records of a business for the year ended 31 March 20X7. You are looking at the rent expense for the year and this includes payments for the following periods: Apr 20X6 – May 20X7- Office 1 £5,040 Apr 20X6 – Jan 20X7- Office 2 … Read More
