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What are the 4 types of profit?

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  • gross
    -net
    -net after tax
    -operating
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How do you work out gross profit?

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net sales minus the cost of goods sold

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How do you work out operating profit?

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gross profit minus any selling/aministritive expenses

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How do you work out net profit?

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the operating proft minus any other expense before tax

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How do you work out net profit after tax?

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final profit figure once the business has met its tax liabilities

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How do you work out loss?

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Cost of product - selling price

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When do prepayments occur?

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when the business pays for something in advance

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Why should you make adjustments for depreciation?

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assets fall in value over time as they age
- if asset depreciates to quickly profit will fall
- depreciation is too slow inflates profits

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What are reserves?

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they are funds that the business set aside, intended to be spent on an asset or make payment with shareholders

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What does SOFP show?

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  • actual value of a business
  • progress when compared to numbers over a year
  • whether the business is borrowing money and how interest rate will affect it
  • whether business uses short or long term loans
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What are liabilities?

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Share Capital, borrowings, otehr creditors and reserves.

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What are total assets of the business equal to?

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fixed and current assets

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What are assets equal to?

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liabilities

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What can happen with non-current assets?

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  • tangible or intangible
  • depreciate in value
  • get depreciated
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What is net book value?

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the cost of a non-current asset before it is depreciated

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What is the equation for net assets?

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net assets = current assets + fixed assets - current liabilities.

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What are examples of current liabilites?

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Bank overdraft
trade payables
Accruals

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What are exmaples of current assets?

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inventories
trade receivables
prepayments
money in cash or in the bank

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What is opening capital?

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value of investment by the owners

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What is transfer of profit or loss?

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statement of comprenhensive income the profit or loss of the business

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What are drawings?

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funds that could be either salaray or wages taken by the owners

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What is closing capital?

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equal to the opening capital plus or minus
(drawings, transfer of profit or loss and opening capital)

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What is the equation for annual depreciation?

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asset purchase price -
estimated salvage value
___________________________________________
estimate useful life of asset

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What is reducing-balance depreciation?

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is a method slightly more complicated as it requires a series of calculations every year.

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What are prepayments?
used when an invoice has been paid in advance of current accounting period
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What is profitability of a business?
measured by profit margins, mark up and efficiency using capital
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What is liqudity?
business's ability to cover its current liability with its current assets
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What is efficiency?
business's ability to collect and pay debts and its use of stock.
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Whhat is the equation for net assets?
Current assets + fixed assets - current liabilities
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What is opening capital?
value of investment by owners
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What is drawings?
funds that can be either salary or wages taken by the owners
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What is closing capital?
equal to opening capital plus or minus - Drawings, and transfer of profit or loss
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What is transfer of profit or loss?
statement of comprehensive income showss profit or loss of the business
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What are non-current assets?
those that are not intended to be converted into cash into short term
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What are current assets?
assets that are intended to be converted into cash in the short term
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What are non-current liabilities?
due after more than a year like a mortgage.
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What are accurals?
these are stock assets or other items that have been recieved from a supplier but the invoices have either not been received or not yet due
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What is annual deoreciation?
asset purchase price - estimated salvage value _________________________ estimated useful life of asset
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What is gross profit margin?
what enables a business to work out their gross profit on goods sold after deducting their costs
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what is gross profit measured as?
a percentage of revenue
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What is the formula for gross profit margin?
Gross profit _____________ times by 100 revnue
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What is the mark up formula for?
Gross profit _____________ times by 100 cost of sales
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What is mark up?
percentage added to the cost to create the seeling price,
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what is gross profit measured as?
percentage of cost of sales
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What is net profit margin?
a ratio that measures the profit made by the business after all expenses have been deducted shows profit
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What is return on capital employed?
the return on money invested into the business by owners and investors
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What is the formula for net profit?
net profit __________ * 100 revenue
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What is the formule for return on capital employed?
net profit before interest and tax ___________________________________ *100 capital employed
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What is current ratio?
the measure of a business's assets compared to its liabilities, shows if a business is being managed properly
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What is liquid capital ratio?
an acid test ratio, removes inventory from calculation as can be hard to turn this quickly into cash to pay of debts
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What is the formula for current ratio?
Current assets ________________ Current liabilities
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What is the equation for liquid capital ratio formula?
(current assets - inventory) ______________________________ current liabilities
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What is the equation for trade recievable days?
(Trade recievables/credit sales)*365
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What is trade recievale days?
a ration that measures the average amount of days it takes debtors to pay invoices
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What is the equation for trade payable days?
(trade payables/credit purchases)*365
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What is trade payable days?
average number of days it takes a business to pay suppliers
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What is the equation for inventory turnover?
(average inventory/cost of sales)*365
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What is inventory turnover?
the average number of days a business holds up its stock.
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What is an issue with ratios being an average?
figures used for ratio calculations are taken away from the business
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Why is it an issue that ratios highlight problems?
they don't explain why there is an issue or how to fix it
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Whats an issue on ratios being based on data that could change?
if numbers change than data changes and could become innacurate
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Why is it an issue that it is difficult to cimpare ratios with competitors?
how people do accounting varies from business to business and data changes meaning rival busines situations could change
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What may accoutniing practices used by a business do?
distort performance, figures in accounts could be misleading.
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Why is poor performance misleading?
does not mean that the business is failing, market could be competitive and lower profits but could still be making decent profits is all in persepctive of how business typically does.
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