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ZIMSEC A-Level Accounting

1.2Accounting Concepts

Accounting Concepts in ZIMSEC A-Level Accounting: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 1.2.1State and explain the historical cost, money measurement, substance over form, realisation, prudence, matching (accruals), materiality, consistency and going concern concepts.
  2. 1.2.2Apply the accounting concepts in preparing financial statements and analyse their importance.

Lessons

  • Concepts of recording: entity, historical cost, money measurement, duality, objectivity

    40 min

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  • Concepts of reporting: prudence, matching, realisation, materiality, consistency, going concern, substance over form

    45 min

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Accounting Concepts: sample question

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Why are the skills of a bakery's loyal workforce not recorded as an asset?

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