Final Accounts: Detailed Preparation for Sole Traders and Partnerships

This report provides a detailed examination of final accounts, focusing on the specific requirements for sole traders and partnerships. It begins with an introduction to final accounts, emphasizing their role in assessing a business's profitability and financial standing. The report explores the process of preparing final accounts, including the creation of trading accounts, profit and loss statements, and balance sheets. It also addresses the importance of trial balances and the methods for constructing accounts from incomplete records. Furthermore, the report delves into the components of partnership agreements and the key elements of partnership accounts. It includes the preparation of profit and loss appropriation accounts and the determination of profit allocation among partners. Finally, the report covers the closing balances of partners' capital and current accounts and the preparation of a statement of financial position for partnerships. The report also covers the calculation of closing capital, opening capital, and the cash/bank account balance, and explains mark-up and margin calculations. The report also explains the components of final accounts for sole traders and partnerships.

Prepare Final accounts
for sole traders and
Partnership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1. Need and process involved in preparation of final accounts...................................................1
1.1 Reason for preparing the trial balance...................................................................................2
1.2 Process and limitation of Preparation of final accounts from a trial balance........................2
1.3 Methods for constructing accounts from incomplete records................................................3
1.4 Reason for imbalances resulting from double entries............................................................3
1.5 Reason for incomplete records...............................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Closing capital of ABC Ltd. .................................................................................................4
2.2 Calculation of the opening and/or closing cash/bank account balance .................................4
2.3 Preparation of Purchase and Sales ledger Control.................................................................5
2.4 what is mark up and margin...................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Describe the components of a set of final account for sole trader.........................................6
3.2 Preparation of Trading and P&L account..............................................................................6
3.3 Preparation of Balance Sheet.................................................................................................7
4.1 Key components of partnership agreement............................................................................8
4.2 Key components of partnership accounts..............................................................................9
TASK 5..........................................................................................................................................10
5.1 Profit and loss account and profit and loss appropriation account......................................10
5.2 Determination of profit and loss to partners........................................................................11
5.3 Capital and current account and .........................................................................................11
TASK 6..........................................................................................................................................11
6.1 Closing balance of each partner from its capital and current account.................................11
6.2 Statement of financial position............................................................................................12
CONCLUSIONS ...........................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Final accounts are those statements which gives insight about profitability and financial
position of business. Sole traders are those individual who own, manage and run an enterprise
wholly single handedly. Partnership is the when two or more than two people comes together for
a common purpose is called partnership. They share their profit and loss on an agreement. If
there is no agreement than partners usually share it equally. There is process for preparing final
accounts which is being explained in this report. The accounting records has been prepared from
given information. As final accounts has been prepared for sole traders. Apart from this the
legislative and accounting requirements for partnership has been explained in this report. Beside
this P&L appropriation account is also being prepared in this report. As statement of financial
position for partnership
TASK 1
1. Need and process involved in preparation of final accounts
Final accounts gives detailed information regarding profitability and financial position of
organisations. These accounts are prepared at the final stage of an accounting cycle. These
accounts are used by the different external and internal parties for various purposes. It has a
complete process which is first transaction are recorded in Journal then it transferred to ledger
and balanced. The final accounts comprises of three statements which are trading accounts, profit
and loss accounts and Balance sheet. These are described as below:
Trading Accounts:
It is the first account which is prepared as a final accounts and prepared to ascertain profit
or loss incurred during an accounting period. There are different items which are recorded in
debit and credit side of this accounts. As on debit side of trading account it includes items as
opening stock, purchase and all direct expenses are recorded on debit side of this account
(McLaughlin, 2018).
Profit and Loss Account:
After preparation of trading account a profit and loss account is prepared which is also
known as an income statement. This statement is prepared to ascertain the profit an loss of the
business. This statement begin with the gross profit or gross loss being transferred from the
trading accounts. The debit side of profit and loss statement records all the indirect expenses like
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salary, rent and stationery etc. and credit side records all indirect incomes of business like
dividend received on shares and profit on sale of assets etc.
Balance Sheet:
Balance sheet is last statement of final accounts which is prepared to ascertain the
financial position of firm. It consist of capital, assets and liabilities of a business. As it is a
statement so there is no debit and credit side. On left side all liabilities are recorded and on right
side all assets are recorded.
1.1 Reason for preparing the trial balance
Trial balance is list of all the general ledger accounts which contained in ledger of
business. As all the ledger accounts are being closed on ending of every financial year so there
balance can be matched and they can be re open for upcoming financial year. The basic reason
for making trial balance is company tries to detect any mathematical errors which have occurred
in double entry accounting system. If the total of debit is equal to credit than trial balance is
considered to be balanced. As there should not be any mathematical error in the ledgers (May,
2013).
1.2 Process and limitation of Preparation of final accounts from a trial balance
There are following points which should be noted while preparing final accounts, these
are as follows:
 One should prepare the trial balance first and if there is a difference between the Trial
Balance then it will be shown in Suspense A/c and shown in Balance Sheet.
 The items which are appeared at outside the trial balances known as adjustment and have
to be shown at two places.
 As Debit side item of trial balance will be appear at debit side of trading or p&l or on the
Assets side of Balance sheet.
 All accounting which are related with the Purchases, Sales, Purchase return and sales
returns shown in trading account. And all direct expenses will appear at debit side of
trading account. As remaining expenses will appear at Profit and loss account.
 As if trial balance is not given in question then items like discounts, commission and rent
will be treated as expense.
The limitation of this is that it it does not point out all types of errors of business. It
means that trial balance does not assure the 100% accuracy. As errors like posting entry in
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correct side but wrong account and wrong amount entered in day book all these kinds of errors
are not shown in trial balance (Janda, Rausser and Strielkowski, 2013).
1.3 Methods for constructing accounts from incomplete records
Accounting records which are not kept according to double entry system are known as
incomplete records. There are various methods for preparing accounts from incomplete records
these are as follows:
The accounting equation:
If company have detail of assets and liabilities then it can use the accounting equation to
work out the value of capital. Assets minus liabilities equal to capital.
Control Accounts:
If company have missing balance on accounts then one can use control accounts. It
includes the control accounts like bank control account with all details. As account balance will
not balance as its missing information and balancing figure will be assumed to be missing
balance.
Markup Method:
With the help of markup margin percentage and have figure of sales then one can know
cost of goods sold (Hoffmann and Zuelch, 2014).
1.4 Reason for imbalances resulting from double entries
As there can be mismatch in amount which arises from the mistake in double entries. The
error can be due to wrong amount entered in either debit side or credit side. And error can be
arisen due to omission of any entry. As due to errors of principal like an item is posted to the
correct side of wrong type of account. Due to posting error like one record is not posted at all or
record is incorrectly posted to another account. All these can be reason for imbalances in double
entries.
1.5 Reason for incomplete records
Incomplete records refers to those who maintain the accounting records on single entry
system. Basically small firms like grocery shops, general stores and food joints maintains the
records on single entry system. The reason for inconsistency and insufficient data is lack of
knowledge of accounting principles. Basically one reason can be that maintaining incomplete
records consume less time also. People consider it as more convenient to maintain records as per
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single entry system. As people does not maintain data on regular basis which leads to
inconsistencies of data. So these are the some reason for incomplete records which arises from
insufficient and inconsistencies (Gupta, 2013).
TASK 2
2.1 Closing capital of ABC Ltd.
Closing capital:
Closing capital is amount which is put with capital after that added together.
Opening capital - GBP 1000
Drawings - GBP 600
Net profit – GBP 2600
Closing capital = Opening capital + profit – Drawings
Closing capital = 1000+2600-600
Closing capital = GBP 3000
II) Calculation of opening capital
Opening capital is adjusted balance which is presented toward the begining of a
bookkeeping period.
Profit – GBP 360
Closing capital – GBP 4200
Drawing – GBP 800
Opening capital: 4200+360-800
Opening capital = GBP 3760
2.2 Calculation of the opening and/or closing cash/bank account balance
Double Column Cash Book
Dr.
(Receipt)
Cr.
(Payment)
Date Description
P
R Cash Bank Date Description
P
R
Cash Bank
1 balance b/d 10940 6 Rent paid 135
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2 M.Boon 315
4 sales 802
7 cash c 50 7 bank c 50
15 sales 490 23 S. Wills 277
29 Bank c 120 29 Cash c 120
30 wages 518
balance c/d 319 11298
Total 972 11745 972 11745
01/10/18 balance b/d 319 11298
2.3 Preparation of Purchase and Sales ledger Control
Purchase ledger control:
This account gives the information about how much amount is business owe to its
supplier. All the transaction which are related with supplier are recorded in this ledger account
(Gilbert and Pfuderer, 2014).
Sales ledger control:
Sales ledger control shows the amount owed to a organisation by its customers within a
given time period. It is the total of accounts receivables. It is a part of balance sheet and current
assets also.
Purchase ledger control
Particulars Amount Particulars Amount
Discount received 1310 Balance b/d 16400
Return outward 2330 Credit purchase 114800
Paid to creditors 109040
balance c/d 18520
131200 131200
Sales ledger control
Particulars Amount Particulars Amount
Balance B/d 23220 Cash sales 1490
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Credit sales 162540 Discount allowed 3160
Sales return 8150
bad debt written off 4770
Received form debtors 146610
Balance c/d (b.f.) 21580
185760 185760
2.4 what is mark up and margin
Mark up:
Mark up method is helpful in the calculation of sales and cost of goods sold. As if mark
up margin is given and sales is given then one can calculate cost of goods sold easily. Mark up is
basically difference between the selling price of goods and its cost (Fooks and Gilmore, 2014).
Margin:
Margin is the money which left after deducting cost of goods sold from net sales.
TASK 3
3.1 Describe the components of a set of final account for sole trader
Sole traders are people who runs their business on their own, they run shops, factories,
farms and other local franchises etc. As these business are generally small because owners
usually invest small or limited amount in their businesses. People set up as a sole trader, as some
needs independence and they do not want to any other person in decision making process. As
one can easily register its business as sole trader by using owner's name or any other trading
name. The final accounts of sole trader includes trading and profit and loss account which gives
detail about profit or loss of business. And includes Balance Sheet which includes assets and
liabilities of business. As final accounts can be produced once a year in order to give information
to owner on how the business is progressing. The trading and profit and loss account shows the
income like rent received and expenditure like rent. The difference between income and expense
is net profit or net loss of the business (Christensen and Feltham, 2012).
3.2 Preparation of Trading and P&L account
Trading A/C
particulars amt. particulars amt.
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to opening stock 50000 by closing stock 42000
to purchases 431250 BY sales 567050
to gross profit c/d 43800
total 525050 525050
Purchase A/C
particulars amt. particulars amt.
To discount received 900 by bal b/d 11250
bal c/d 430350 by credit purchases 420000
total 431250 431250
Sales A/C
particulars amt. particulars amt.
To bal b/d 10000 by discount allowed 450
to credit sales 557500 by bal c/d 567050
total 567500 567500
Profit And Loss Account
Dr. Cr.
particulars amt. particulars amt.
shop expenses 6200 by gross profit b/d 43800
shop wages 33300 by income from asset d. 250
less:prepaid 200 33100 By net loss c/d 19850
telephone expenses 600
Add:accrual 100 700
travel exp 550
Interest paid 8000
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Dep:pre:5000
+fitings 6400 11400
bad debts: 500
add: bad debt allow 200 700
Tax exp. 3250
total 63900 63900
3.3 Preparation of Balance Sheet
Balance sheet
Liabilities amt. Assets amt.
Premises 250000
Capital : 125000 less:dep. 5000+15000 230000
less:drawings 24000 shop fittings 40000
Less:net loss 19850 81150 less:dep. 6400+14400 19200
bank loan 130000 Bank 2650 2650
O/S telephone exp 100 prepaid exp 200
creditors 430350 closing stock 42000
211250 debtors 557500
suspense a/c 1300
total 852850 852850
4.1 Key components of partnership agreement
Partnership is when more than two people come together who shares common goal.
Partnership agreement is a written document which contains the detail terms of partnership.
There are some components which is contain by the partnership agreement these are as follows:
Formation:
As with the help of partnership agreement a partnership firm is formed in accordance
with law.
Name:
Name is a component of partnership agreement. It is decided when the agreement is
made.
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Purpose:
The purpose define aim of business. As purpose of partnership should be define in
agreement and it should be legal also (Chambersed., 2014).
Term:
The term refers to the definitive date of starting time of partnership and its continuation is
provided in agreement.
Place of business:
The place of business is location where office of partnership firm will be located.
Capital Contributors:
Capital is amount of money which is invested by partners in order to start their business.
It can be in cash or any property which partners can invest while starting business.
Allocation of profit and loss
It is very important component of partnership agreement. The profit and loss sharing ratio
is mentioned in this agreement.
Resolve of conflicts:
The conflicts can be arisen in partnership firm so there should be a clause in agreement in
order to resolving conflicts so partners does not need to head to court (Schaltegger and Zvezdov,
2013).
Partnership Dissolution:
There are various causes for dissolution of partnership firm and one is if its in agreement.
As in this clause partners indicate how assets are distributed between partners in case of
dissolution.
4.2 Key components of partnership accounts
There are different components of partnership accounts, these are as follows:
Statement of profit and loss:
Profit and loss or income statement is prepared for ascertaining the profit and loss of
partnership firm. As debit side of account will contain the indirect expenses of business and
credit side contains the indirect income.
Partnership appropriation account:
It is used for distribution and allocation of net profits among partners, reserves and
dividend. It is prepared by mainly by partnership firms. It have carry forward balance from
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previous accounting period. This account is prepared after preparation profit and loss account. It
does not follows the matching principle of accounts (Barrow, Barrow and Brown, 2012).
Goodwill:
Goodwill is an intangible asset of business. It represents non physical items that add to a
company's value but can not be find easily. It is the amount by which fair value of net assets
exceeds book value of net assets. It arises due to factors like location, customer base and market
position of business.
Partner's Current account:
This is prepared when the capital is fixed in firm. It includes transaction like interest on
drawings, salary and interest on capital. The balance of this account fluctuate every year. As
balance of this account can be both debit and credit.
Partner's capital account:
The partners capital account is maintained in two ways which are as follows:
Fixed Capital Account:
Under this method the amount invested by partners keep same until additional capital is
brought in business. As only capital introduced or withdrawn by partners is recorded in this
account (Bain and Band, 2016).
Fluctuating Capital account:
In this only capital account is maintained and all entries which are related with the
drawing, interest on drawing, interest on capital, salary, commission etc. are recorded in capital
accounts.
Statement of financial position:
This shows the actual position of business. As Balance sheet is made at the end of
accounting year.
TASK 5
5.1 Profit and loss account and profit and loss appropriation account
Profit and loss a/c
particulars amt. particulars amt.
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