Tuesday, 22 November 2011

"summary of accounting cycle"


Accounting cycle includes the whole sequence of accounting procedures,which is repeated in the same order in each accounting period.It start with the recording of the transaction in the journal and end with the preparation of financial statement.

RULES OF ACCOUNTING


"RULES OF ACCOUNTING GENERAL ENTRIES"
                 " (debit and credit)"



1: when assets are increased then assets is debit and when assets are decreased then assets are credit .

2: when liabilities are increased then liabilities are credit and when liabilities are decreased then liabilities are debit .

3: when revenue are increased then revenue also are credit and when revenue are decreased then revenue are debit (revenue always increased that's why always credit).


4: when expenses are incur in the business then expenses are debit (expenses are always debit).

5: when owner are invested in the business then capital a/c is always credit.


                "every entry has a two aspect one is debit and the other one is credit"

First of all we must identify the accounting heads means the entry is fall in the assets,revenue,liability or expenses .

Then one head is debit and other one head is credit .

(ie the  expenses are paid by cash rs 100 )

In which entry two a/c heads are used, the expense are incur with Rs 100 and expenses are increased that's why expenses a/c are debit and on the other hand cash is a assets and assets are decreased by Rs 100  that's why the cash a/c are credit.

Expenses a/c    100
           to   cash a/c 100
expenses are paid in cash.

At the end of the every entry the short summary of the transaction is wrote is call "narration".