I am attending classes online through Zoom software due to covid 19 issues .
They have taught me
Accounting equation
Journal
Ledger
and
Trial balance
Since the classes are online , the teaching methods are not of the highest quality . I still have to do a lot of self learning after they end the class because i don't understand everything they explain in the class .
They haven't started ,
The trading
The profit and loss
and
The balance sheet yet .
So i only have little ideas about those .
What is trading and profit and loss account and what does it contain ? Do we use information from the trial balance to write both the trading and profit and loss account ?
As you say the course hasn't yet covered the things you are asking about, but once it does you should have an understanding of these things. Whilst people are often happy to help out with specific questions, at this time of year the majority of bookkeepers/accountants on here are extremely busy and don't necessarily have the time to go into teaching principles in great depth. I just wanted to write you this quick reply so you didn't feel you were being ignored.
Good luck with your ongoing studies!
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Jenny
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Welcome to the forum, what accountancy course are you doing?
I notice from your profile that you are based in India so terms and requirements may be different between the two countries, I agree with Jenny in that I think you should wait until your course moves on to these areas as even though you may be reading things from a book you may find it confuses you even more when it comes to the actual way the classes will teach you.
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Doug
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I am doing a course which teaches Manual Accounting and some software accounting like SAP FICO and SAP MM .
These classes are only just once a week through Zoom software , so i have plenty of time to revise and self learn too
Right now waiting for the classes itself is the best idea , because self learning accounting which i have tried before joining this institution was like wasting time looking at too much garbage
with accounting its very much a case of you need to learn to walk before you can run. The things that you consider garbage are no doubt important building blocks to get to where you want to be.
Having a fundamental understanding of T accounts and the extended trial balance is the core to everything. From there you will be able to transfer all of the figures to the P&L and B/S including getting those reports to integrate with each other.
Read everything that you can get your hands on, watch every Youtube viideo, sign up for Open Tuition and ingrain every little detail that you can acquire.
If you consider what you are learning garbage then you may not understand the importance of the fundamental knowledge that you are acquiring before moving onto more complex studies.
As a side note I think that your Avatar is a little too political. Last thing that we want is Mr Trumps legal team looking at the site. I'll give you a day to change it yourself but if its not changed then I will have to change it.
Kindest regards,
Shaun.
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Shaun
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These are from my notes i prepared and collected from different places.
It starts with Entries ,then moves to
Accounting Equation
Journal
Adjustment entries
Ledger
Trial balance
Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Cash flow statement
and
Fund flow statement
Accounting is the art of recording a companies items , amount and parties in a transaction or in an accounting event
There are many categories of items that move in and out of a business
Debits and Credits
The term debit indicates the left side of an account, and credit indicates the right side. They are commonly abbreviated as Dr. for debit and Cr. for credit. They do not mean increase or decrease, as is commonly thought. We use the terms debit and credit repeatedly in the recording process to describe where entries are made in accounts. For example, the act of entering an amount on the left side of an account is called debiting the account. Making an entry on the right side is crediting the account
There are items of assets ( cash )
There are items of expense ( purchase )
There are items of income ( sales )
There are items of capital
There are items of liability
Create the records of of the Items of those category according to the rules of accounting
At the end of the year after preparing trial balance a list of unrecorded items is prepared which is called list of adjustment for which adjustment entries are passed. Now closing entries will be passed. The purpose of closing entries is to close all those accounts which comes in trading and profit & Loss and these accounts are mainly related to expenses , incomes and goods.
@Shamus ,
Yup you are right , i have only learned till Trial balance .
There was a lot of confusion in the beginning , but now i have a little bit more understanding and i am even comfortable when doing those till Trial balance
I should practice more till the Trial balance and wait for the manual accounting classes to start the rest of the classes
