Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PBKT
- Task 1
- What
- Preparing a book of Prime Entry, using ANALYSIS
columns
- Sales Day Book
- Sales Returns Day Book
- Purchase Day Book
- Purchase Returns Day Book
- Hints and Tips
- Calculating VAT
- Net + 20% = Gross
- Gross / 6 = VAT
- Gross / 1.2 = Net
- Gross - Net = VAT
- Net + VAT = Gross
- REMEMBER - The NET = The total
of the Analysed Columns
- Common Errors
- 1) Mis-calculating VAT and or other figures.
2) Entering Net in the Total Column and
Total in the Net columns
- Questions
- Task 2
- What
- Posting from Books of Prime
Entry to the Main and
Subsidiary Ledgers
- Common Errors
- Reversal of Entries
- Posting the net
Amount to the control
account
- Selecting the incorrect
account names in the main
and subsidiary ledgers
- Questions
- Hints and Tips
- Main Ledger = DOUBLE Entry -
DEAD CLIC / PEARLS
- Subsidiary Ledgers = Detail
for Customers or Suppliers -
NO Double entry here
- Start with the
General/Main
Ledger
- Go from Right to left (Net to Total)
- Net always gets posted to the
NAME of the Daybook eg Sales
Returns Day Book is posted to the
sales returns account
- Subsidiary Ledger is
always posted to the
same side as the control
account
- Task 3
- What
- Entering items in to a 3
column cash book
- 20 Marks
- Total and
balance the cash
book
- Common Errors
- Adding or subtracting
the discounts from the
money paid/received
- Inserting amounts into
the incorrect columns
- Miscalculating the
incorrect totals
- Questions
- Hints and Tips
- Discount has already been
adjusted, so no need to adjust
again
- Cheques = BANK
- Cash = CASH
- Bank balance may be
overdraw - CR bigger that
DR
- Deal with Cash
sales/purchases first, these
will require VAT calculation
- Anything for
Payables or
Receivables will NOT
need VAT calculating
- Task 4
- What
- Posting from a 3-Column
cash book to the Main
and Subsidiary ledgers
- Cash book may or may not
be part of the double entry
system
- 15 Marks
- Common Errors
- Reversal of enteries
- Posting to the Bank/Cash accounts
when the cash book is part of the
double entry system
- Selecting the wrong
discount account
- Questions
- Hints and Tips
- Remember if you have Dr
the cash book you will need
to Cr the analysis column
accounts.
- Discounts will need to be posted twice, once
in the discounts account and then in the
control account
- READ THE QUESTION
- Always think
DOUBLE ENTRY, if
you are Dr the
bank you will
need to do the
opposite in the
other main ledger
accounts
- Task 5
- What
- Maintaining a Petty Cash
Book and posting to the
main ledger
- 20 Marks
- Common Errors
- Not reading the question
- Selecting the
incorrect account
names
- Questions
- Hints and Tips
- The names of the accounts to
post to from the petty cash
book will always match the
column headers
- Always check if there is an entry
from the bank on the DR side of
the PCB
- READ THE QUESTION - Is
the PCB part of the double
entry system or not?
- Imprest level will generally
be what has been spent
from the PCB
- Task 6
- What
- Prepare a trial balance
- 20 Marks
- Common Errors
- Getting
Paid and
Received
accounts
the wrong
way round
- VAT may be owed to or from,
Students over look this
- Questions
- Hints and Tips
- If it is Paid, think of
the double entry, CR
bank therefore DR
other account
- Owed to = Liability,
Owed from Asset
- Use DEAD CLIC/PEARLS
- Task 7
- What
- Check Inv/CrNote
against source
documents
- 15 Marks
- Reconcile a
statement to an
account
- Calculate
payments to
be made to a
supplier
- Common Errors
- NOT READING
THE QUESTION
- Unable to calculate
VAT when Sett Disc
is involved
- Hints and Tips
- VAT is calculate on the
LOWEST amount
RECEIVABLE
- Remember to Read the question
FULLY prior to answering the task
- Double check
for Settlement
Discount
- Questions
- Task 8
- What
- Complete an invoice or credit note
which will include various types of
discounts
- 15 Marks
- Check receipts from
customers and identify
discrepancies
- Identify hat the
purpose of a
remittance
advice is
- Common Errors
- Forgetting to calculate discounts
at the correct stage of the invoice
- Not checking that discounts
may have been taken
incorrectly
- Hints and Tips
- Trade and Bulk discount
calculated before net
amount
- Settlement discount calculated on
the lowest amount receivable
- Find out what the settlement
discount terms are and check
that they have been applied
correctly
- Read the question properly, when
should the invoice be raised?
- Questions
- Task 9
- What
- Prepare a
"T"
account
- Prepare a
statement of
account to be sent
to a customer
- 15 Marks
- Common Erors
- Placing Balances on the
wrong side of the T
account
- Placing balances on both
sides of the account
- Identifying what should appear
on the statement of account
- Hints and Tips
- Remember BBB, B/d
goes Below Bigger
side
- c/d = end of the time period
- b/d = beginning
of the next period
- Read the question carefully,
when are invoices due?
- Questions
- Task 10
- What
- Understand the double entry bookkeeping system
- understand the Accounting Equation
- Understand Capital and Revenue Transactions
- Understand the use of Coding in accounting
- 15 Marks
- Common Errors
- Not understanding the
Accounting Equation
- Not understanding the
difference between Capital
and Revenue
- Hints and Tips
- Accounting Equation =
Assets - Liabilities =
Capital
- A - L = C
- 200 - 50 = 150
- Capital = Non-Current Assets
- Motor Vehicle
- Machinery
- Office Equipment
- Revenue = Everyday Transactions
- Sales
- Purchases
- Expenses
- Questions