Accounting

Definition: Financial Statement Analysis is the assessment of the firm's financial well-being. It determines relations among various items of the financial statements. Also, it helps in identifying strengths and specifying the areas of concern persisting in the firm. It aims to scrutinize, interpret, compare and depict useful relationships among financial statements (Balance … [Read more...] about Financial Statement Analysis

Definition: Departmental accounting is an accounting system used by organizations to manage the accounts of their various departments in separate books, i.e., for every department separate trial balance and profit and loss account is prepared, and at the end of the year balances of each department gets transferred to general profit and loss account, prepared to find out the … [Read more...] about Departmental Accounting

Definition: Sunk cost is the cost that has already been aroused in the past and cannot be recovered at any cost. Thus it is also known as historical cost. It is the written down value of the plant after reducing the reclaim value of the plant. However, this cost is not relevant for making the decisions as it has already been incurred and cannot be refrained by taking decisions … [Read more...] about Sunk Cost

Definition: Inventory valuation or stock valuation is the method of identifying the actual value of the inventories at the end of the year.  The foremost step of valuation is to ascertain the physical inventories of the company, i.e., raw material, work in progress goods, and finished goods. The main objective behind the valuation of inventory is to determine the true income … [Read more...] about Inventory Valuation

Definition: Trial Balance is a statement that assembles the balances of all ledger accounts in a definite format. It records both debit balance as well as credit balances from the ledger accounts, including cash and bank balances on a stated date. It is inclined with the purpose of testing the analytical or arithmetical accuracy of the books of accounts of a business. Content: … [Read more...] about Trial Balance

Definition: Balance Sheet is the final statement of the financial report prepared after trading and profit/loss account of a company. It shows the company's exact financial position at the end of the financial year after evaluating the true and fair value of all the assets and liabilities of a business. In short, it is the basic statement of the company that examines the … [Read more...] about Balance Sheet

Definition: Hire Purchase System is a system in which the hirer (hire purchaser) buys a good from the seller (hire vendor) but does not make a full payment at one time. However, makes a lumpsum amount as a down payment and the remaining amount will be paid in installments by the hirer. It is somehow like an installment system but, the major difference in installment system and … [Read more...] about Hire Purchase System

Definition: Contract Costing is an accounting of a long-term contract work usually applicable on construction work such as building construction, bridge construction, road construction and other long-run engineering works which take long duration in completion, i.e., a year or more. However, contract costing is very much similar to job costing but is not same, in contract … [Read more...] about Contract Costing

Definition: Accounting Principles are the rules and regulations of the accounting language accepted worldwide and are made to make the language understandable for all and ensures the accounting records reliability. Accounting principles should be followed to maintain the resemblance of the records. So that the records should reveal the same information to everyone using the … [Read more...] about Accounting Principles

Definition: In Marginal Costing, we study the impact of variable cost at distinctive levels of production capacity for that we need to divide the total cost into fixed and variable cost because the fixed cost does not make any impact on marginal cost. However, fluctuations in variable cost in different production capacities are known as the marginal cost for the … [Read more...] about Marginal Costing