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BSEB Inter Accountancy study plan

BSEB Inter Accountancy · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Accounting for Partnership Firms: Fundamentals and Goodwill

  • Distinguish between fixed and fluctuating capital accounts and pass journal entries for interest on capital, drawings, and salary in both methods.

  • Compute divisible profit through a Partner's Capital Account and a Profit and Loss Appropriation Account from a given trial-balance extract.

  • Prepare a Profit and Loss Appropriation Account where the deed is silent and where the deed specifies interest on capital but not on drawings.

  • Solve at least six numerical problems on capital adjustment and past adjustments of profit without looking at solutions first.

Your checkpoint

A handwritten set of 10 fully solved partnership-fundamentals problems (P&L Appropriation plus Capital Accounts) with every adjustment entry shown and errors corrected in red.

Week 2

Accounting for Partnership Firms: Fundamentals and Goodwill & Reconstitution of Partnership: Admission, Retirement and Death of a Partner

  • Compute goodwill under average profit, super profit, and capitalisation methods, including the treatment of abnormal losses and gains and weighted average profit.

  • Pass journal entries for goodwill when the incoming partner brings it privately and when the firm records it, under the sacrificing-ratio approach.

  • Calculate the new profit-sharing ratio and sacrificing ratio for at least four admission scenarios, including cases where one partner gains.

  • Draft a one-page formula sheet for goodwill methods and verify each formula against a solved example.

Your checkpoint

A goodwill question bank of 12 problems (3 per method plus 3 mixed) solved end-to-end with the sacrificing ratio computed for each admission case.

Week 3

Reconstitution of Partnership: Admission, Retirement and Death of a Partner

  • Prepare Revaluation Account, Partners' Capital Accounts, and the new Balance Sheet on admission of a partner, handling unrecorded assets, liabilities, and accumulated reserves.

  • Journalise the adjustment of capitals (including current accounts) when partners agree to keep capitals proportionate to the new profit-sharing ratio.

  • Compute the gaining ratio and pass entries for goodwill on retirement and on death of a partner, including goodwill appearing in the old Balance Sheet.

  • Handle the executor's account on death, including the share of profit to the date of death and interest on the deceased partner's capital.

  • Solve two comprehensive admission problems and two retirement/death problems under timed conditions of 45 minutes each.

Your checkpoint

Two complete reconstitution case studies - one admission and one retirement-plus-death - each including Revaluation Account, all Capital Accounts, and the reconstructed Balance Sheet.

Week 4

Dissolution of Partnership Firms

  • Classify dissolution versus retirement and identify when a firm is dissolved by court order or by notice.

  • Prepare a Realisation Account and pass entries for the transfer of assets and liabilities, realisation expenses, and partner-borne expenses.

  • Work through Garner v. Murray where a partner is insolvent and the firm's capital is deficient, applying the maximum-loss method.

  • Journalise the settlement of a partner's loan versus capital when the partner is insolvent.

  • Complete three dissolution problems, including one where all partners except one are insolvent.

Your checkpoint

A single timed mock section on dissolution (3 questions, 60 minutes) scored and self-marked against a written answer key, with a list of every lost mark and its cause.

Week 5

Accounting for Share Capital

  • Journalise the issue of shares at par, at premium, and at a discount, including application, allotment, and calls, and the treatment of calls in arrears and calls in advance.

  • Apply pro-rata allotment logic to a case where one applicant is allotted fewer shares and another is rejected, adjusting the excess money.

  • Record forfeiture of shares issued at par and at premium, and reissue of forfeited shares at par, at premium, and at a discount, transferring the balance to capital reserve.

  • Prepare the Share Capital note in the balance sheet showing authorised, issued, subscribed, called-up, and paid-up capital as per Schedule III.

  • Distinguish between preferential allotment, sweat equity, and bonus shares at the level of journal entries.

Your checkpoint

A complete share-capital workbook: one full-length issue-and-forfeiture problem plus a Schedule III Share Capital note, both checked line by line.

Week 6

Issue and Redemption of Debentures & Financial Statements of Companies (as per Schedule III)

  • Journalise the issue of debentures at par, at premium, and at a discount, and as collateral security, and record interest on debentures with TDS.

  • Prepare the Debenture Redemption Reserve and the Debenture Redemption Investment entries required before redemption, and pass entries for redemption out of profits and out of capital.

  • Write off discount on issue of debentures using the fixed-instalment method and the fluctuating-asset method.

  • Prepare the Statement of Profit and Loss and the Balance Sheet of a company in Schedule III format, including the notes on share capital, reserves, long-term borrowings, and trade payables.

  • Identify and correct at least five common Schedule III presentation errors in a deliberately flawed balance sheet.

Your checkpoint

A full company final-accounts set (Statement of P&L plus classified Balance Sheet with notes) built from a given trial balance, plus a debenture redemption schedule showing DRR and DRI for three years.

Week 7

Analysis of Financial Statements: Ratio Analysis & Cash Flow Statement

  • Compute liquidity, solvency, activity, and profitability ratios from a given Schedule III balance sheet and state what each ratio signals.

  • Derive missing figures from given ratios (for example, current assets from the current ratio and working capital) in at least four reverse-engineering problems.

  • Classify cash flows into operating, investing, and financing activities and prepare a Cash Flow Statement using the indirect method, adjusting for depreciation, interest, tax, and working-capital changes.

  • Reconcile net profit before tax to cash from operations and reconcile the opening and closing cash balances.

  • Time yourself: one ratio set and one cash flow problem in 50 minutes combined.

Your checkpoint

A ratio-and-cash-flow test of 8 items solved under timed conditions, with a one-page list of every formula used and the sign conventions for cash outflow.

Week 8

Accounting for Not-for-Profit Organisations & Accounting for Partnership Firms: Fundamentals and Goodwill & Reconstitution of Partnership: Admission, Retirement and Death of a Partner & Dissolution of Partnership Firms & Accounting for Share Capital & Issue and Redemption of Debentures & Financial Statements of Companies (as per Schedule III) & Analysis of Financial Statements: Ratio Analysis & Cash Flow Statement

  • Prepare a Receipts and Payments Account, an Income and Expenditure Account, and a Balance Sheet for a not-for-profit organisation, correctly treating subscriptions in arrears and in advance, life membership, and special funds.

  • Distinguish capital from revenue items for an NPO and handle the sale of a fixed asset and the depreciation on it.

  • Re-solve one flagged weak problem from each of Domains 1 through 8, focusing on the error types recorded in earlier weeks.

  • Complete two full-length mock papers of 3 hours each under exam conditions and mark them against the official marking pattern.

  • Compile a final one-page revision sheet covering all nine domains with the highest-risk adjustments.

Your checkpoint

Two completed full-length mock papers with scores, a marked error log, and a one-page final revision sheet covering all nine domains.

Milestones

Week 2: Can compute goodwill by all three methods and pass the admission goodwill entries without notes, scoring at least 80% on a self-set 10-mark test.

Week 4: Scores at least 60% on the timed dissolution mock and can explain the Garner v. Murray maximum-loss sequence from memory.

Week 6: Can produce a Schedule III balance sheet with correct notes and a complete debenture redemption schedule in under 75 minutes with no format errors.

Week 8: Scores at least 65% on both full-length mocks, with no domain below 50%, and has re-solved every logged error at least once.