Fundamentals of Financial Accounting

Explain the end-to-end procurement and payment cycle: quotations, purchase orders, goods received notes, invoices, remittance advice, debit/credit notes, and statements.

Discover the seven books of prime entry: sales day book, sales return book, purchase day book, purchase return book, cash book, petty cash book, and journal, underpinning computerized accounting.

Learn how double-entry bookkeeping summarizes transactions using debit and credit, with examples like cash and capital, to connect to ledgers, trial balances, and financial statements.

Learn the double entry rule: assets and expenses increase on debit and decrease on credit, while capital, income, and liabilities do the opposite, with journal entries guiding ledgers and statements.

Differentiate trade discounts from settlement discounts, noting that trade discounts reduce invoice price at sale and are recorded in the invoice, while settlement discounts incentivize early payment and reduce liabilities.

Discover the purpose of ledger accounts—how they simplify recording with debit and credit, improve traceability, and save time by avoiding duplication, using source documents, journals, and the trial balance.

Balance a ledger by recording transactions in a t account, comparing debit and credit totals, and computing the closing balance carried down or forward before preparing a trial balance.

Learn the balance sheet format and the accounting equation, assets equal to capital plus liabilities, with non-current and current assets and liabilities explained.