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Hi everyone,

I should know this and I think I may have had a mind blank for some reason. For limited company accounting and just as a basic formula should it be:

Gross Sales - Allowable expenses = Net Profit

Then 

Net profit - 20% = true profit.

 

For example,

Gross Sales £50,000

Allowable expenses £45,000 (salary and other things)

Net Profit £5,000

20% corporation tax £1000

£4000 Profit back into the company.

 

Looks quite simple then its written down like that.

 

Thanks, Tony

 

 



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Way too over simplified.

What about capital allowances, Annual investment allowance, first year allowances, etc.

Not everything that is an allowable expense for accounting purposes is an allowable expense for taxation purposes. For example, depreciation.

just checked your earlier posts and it's less than six months since you started down this path where producing accounts will take you several years to prepare yourself for.

For guidance try reading the Kaplan ACCA study texts for F6 (Taxation) and F7 (Financial Reporting) which is basically the entry level of where people should be preparing accounts regardless of the professional body that one is attached to.

For F7 you can use any post 2011 text but for taxation it has to be the latest version.

Once you have done the study texts do some of the freely available old exam papers and/or purchase the Kaplan revision kits and work through them.

Once you can do that you should be in a position to prepare accounts regardless of the professional body that you are practicing under.

kind regards,

Shaun.

p.s. amended as the first post lost the end of my message.

p.s.2 F6 and F7 are only foundation skills level papers. Don't worry too much about them having the ACCA in their titles. They are quite straght forwards. Dark side ACCA comes with the P prefixed papers.



-- Edited by Shamus on Thursday 28th of May 2015 02:26:55 PM



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