Accounting Tutorial: (Q) What Is Account?
Accounting Tutorial: (Q) What Is Account?
(Q)What is Account?
(Ans) Account is a place where transactions are recorded in a systematic manner.
These principles are done some work for e.g.:-Real A\C this account handles all the transaction of
goods and cash. Shiv purchased goods of rupees 10,000 OR Sold goods for cash of rupees 9,000.
Personal A\C:- This account handles all the transactions of persons. For e.g.:- Abdul Rehman Purchase
goods from Abdul Rahim.
Nominal A\C:- This account handle all the expenses and losses OR all the income and gain. There is
great difference between the Expenses and Loss.
For e.g.:- Mr.ABC purchase news paper for every day that his expenses. Loss means Mr.ABC was come
from his office and suddenly his an accident, it’s called a loss.
Credit Incomes/Gains
Assets
(Q)What is difference between single entry system and double entry system?
(Ans)
(4)Record of transaction All the personal, real and Only personal accounts of
nominal accounts are debtors and creditors and cash
maintained. book are maintained.
(5)Trading A/C Trading account is prepared to Trading account cannot be
find out the gross profit. prepared and hence gross profit
cannot be ascertained.
(6)Profit and Loss A/C Profit and Loss account is Profit and Loss account cannot
prepared to find out the net be prepared and hence net
profit. profit cannot be ascertained.
(7)Balance Sheet Balance sheet can be prepared Statement of affairs can be
on the basis of trial balance. prepared on the basis of book
values of some accounts
maintained and on estimates
and owners memory.
(8)Suitability It is suitable for all types of It is suitable only for very small
business whether small and business concern.
large.
Purchase A\c Dr
To Cash A\c
Dr Purchase A\c Cr
Dr Cash A\c Cr
DR Trading A/C CR
Balance Sheet
(Q)What is Liabilities?
(Ans) Liabilities refers to debts or amounts due from a business to others either for money borrowed
or for goods or assets purchased on credit or for services received without making immediate for the
same. Liabilities of business can be classified into three types.
1. Fixed Liabilities are those liabilities, which are to be redeemed after a long period of time.
For e.g.:- Long-term loans and capital are example of such liabilities.
2. Current Liabilities are those liabilities, which are to be redeemed in the operating period
usually within a year.
For e.g.:-Sundry creditors, bank loans and bills payable are included under such liabilities.
3. Contingent Liabilities are not actual liabilities but their becoming an actual liability is
Contingent on the happening of certain events.
(Q)What is Assets?
(Ans)The entire property of all kinds possessed by or owing to a person or organization is called as an
assets. Assets are valuable resources owned by a business. Assets of business can be classified into
three types.
1. Fixed Assets are assets of a permanent nature, which are used in business over and over again.
For e.g.:-Machinery, Building, Loose, Tools, Plant, etc. are all fixed assets.
3. Fictitious Assets are those assets, which are not represented by anything concrete. There is no
tangible property behind such assets.
On other words” Tax is nothing but it is a charge made by government on the goods, on travelling,
medicien, that is a sort of income to the government and these money is used for developing
Purpose”.