Application Of Accounting Concepts
Overview
Knowing the names of the six accounting concepts is the easy part. The real skill, the one examiners actually test, is recognising which concept governs a specific decision in front of you, and being able to say exactly how it changes a figure on the income statement or the statement of financial position.
In this lesson you will apply consistency, prudence, accruals, materiality, money measurement and business entity to real decisions: whether to capitalise a purchase, how to value damaged inventory, whether an owner's personal spending belongs in the accounts, and what happens to profit when a bill has not yet arrived.
Objectives
- Apply the following accounting concepts: consistency, prudence, accruals, materiality, money measurement and business entity
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- A sole trader takes $200 of goods from the business for personal use. Which concept requires this to be recorded as drawings rather than an expense? A) Materiality B) Money measurement C) Business entity D) Consistency Answer: C
- A business's inventory cost $5,000 but has a net realisable value of $4,300 due to damage. Which concept requires it to be valued at $4,300? A) Accruals B) Prudence C) Consistency D) Business entity Answer: B
- A business changes its depreciation method every year purely to produce whichever profit figure looks best. Which concept does this breach? A) Consistency B) Materiality C) Money measurement D) Prudence Answer: A
- A rent bill of $400 for December has not been paid by the year end but relates to expenses incurred before the year end. Which concept requires it to be included in this year's accounts? A) Prudence B) Accruals (matching) C) Materiality D) Business entity Answer: B
- Why can a business's highly skilled workforce not be recorded as an asset? A) Because of materiality B) Because of consistency C) Because it has no objectively determinable monetary value, breaching money measurement D) Because of prudence Answer: C
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