Kerala Plus Two Accountancy with AFS (DHSE) study plan
Kerala Plus Two Accountancy with AFS (DHSE) · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Reconstitution of Partnership - Admission, Retirement and Death of a Partner
Derive new profit-sharing ratio, sacrificing ratio and gaining ratio in at least eight admission scenarios, including cases where the old ratio has to be reconstructed from capital balances.
Prepare Revaluation Account, Partners' Capital Accounts and the new Balance Sheet for admission cases involving revaluation, unrecorded assets or liabilities and adjustment of capitals to the new ratio.
Value goodwill by the average-profit, super-profit and capitalisation methods, and record it correctly under each of the three treatments (raised and retained, raised and written off, premium brought in privately).
Journalise the accounting for accumulated reserves, accumulated losses, revaluation profit or loss and partners' loan transferred on admission.
Your checkpoint
Closed-book solution set of ten admission problems marked against the textbook answer key, scoring at least 80 percent, with every wrong entry corrected in a separate error log.
Reconstitution of Partnership - Admission, Retirement and Death of a Partner & Accounting for Partnership Firms - Fundamentals (profit sharing, capital and current accounts, P&L Appropriation Account, goodwill)
Handle retirement of a partner end to end: revaluation, goodwill adjusted through gaining ratio, transfer of the retiring partner's balance to loan account, and settlement with interest.
Handle death of a partner: share of profit up to date of death, interest on capital, executor's account and the treatment of the deceased partner's share of goodwill.
Distinguish fixed and fluctuating capital methods by preparing Partners' Capital Accounts and Partners' Current Accounts in the same firm and reconciling the closing balances.
Allocate interest on capital, interest on drawings, salary and commission among partners using the exact time periods in the question.
Your checkpoint
A one-page handwritten formula sheet covering goodwill, gaining ratio, profit to date of death and executor's account, plus three fully solved retirement and death problems.
Accounting for Partnership Firms - Fundamentals (profit sharing, capital and current accounts, P&L Appropriation Account, goodwill) & Accounting for Share Capital (issue, forfeiture, reissue, balance sheet presentation)
Prepare a Profit and Loss Appropriation Account that includes guaranteed minimum profit, salary, commission on profit and the correction of past omissions or excesses by passing a single adjustment entry.
Record the issue of shares at par and at premium, accounting separately for calls in arrears and calls in advance and showing the relevant interest.
Work through oversubscription and pro-rata allotment, including the refund of excess application money and the later adjustment of excess against allotment and calls.
Present Share Capital in the Balance Sheet as per Schedule III with the notes on authorised, issued, subscribed and paid-up capital and the share forfeiture reserve.
Your checkpoint
One complete pro-rata allotment problem plus one past-adjustment problem, with both presented as journal entries, ledger accounts and the Schedule III share capital note.
Accounting for Share Capital (issue, forfeiture, reissue, balance sheet presentation)
Forfeit shares for non-payment of allotment or calls, reissue forfeited shares at par, at a discount and at a premium, and compute the amount credited to Capital Reserve.
Compute the maximum permissible discount on reissue and the profit on reissue when only part of the forfeited shares are reissued.
Correct capital-related errors, including application money wrongly adjusted and calls not received but shares subsequently reissued.
Draft the full company Balance Sheet for a share-capital question without omitting the notes to accounts.
Your checkpoint
A 60-minute timed test of 40 marks covering Domains 2, 3 and 5, scored at least 60 percent, followed by a written list of the three weakest sub-topics.
Issue and Redemption of Debentures & Dissolution of Partnership Firm (including Realisation Account)
Issue debentures at par, at discount and at premium, and record debentures issued as collateral security with the correct note in the Balance Sheet.
Redeem debentures by instalments and by draw of lots, maintaining a Debenture Redemption Reserve, investing in Debenture Redemption Investments and encashing them before redemption.
Redeem debentures by conversion into shares or by purchase of own debentures in the open market, and compute profit or loss on cancellation.
Prepare a Realisation Account on dissolution, covering assets and liabilities taken over by a partner, unrecorded assets, realisation expenses borne by a partner, and the settlement of the partner's loan account.
Handle capital deficiency, including the Garner versus Murray rule where the question specifies it.
Your checkpoint
Two complete dissolution problems, one of them with capital deficiency, and one full debenture redemption problem with all the required accounts, checked against the key.
Accounting for Not-for-Profit Organisations & Financial Statements of a Company - preparation and presentation
Convert Receipts and Payments Account into Income and Expenditure Account, adjusting subscriptions outstanding and received in advance, depreciation on assets, and the capital fund.
Prepare the Balance Sheet of a not-for-profit organisation from an opening balance sheet, the receipts and payments account and additional information, treating special funds correctly.
Prepare the Statement of Profit and Loss of a company in the prescribed format, classifying revenue from operations, other income, expenses and tax.
Explain and apply the Schedule III requirements for current versus non-current classification, notes on reserves and surplus, and the measurement of property, plant and equipment.
Your checkpoint
One full NPO set (Receipts and Payments to Income and Expenditure plus Balance Sheet) and one company Statement of Profit and Loss, both produced within 45 minutes each.
Analysis of Financial Statements and Accounting Ratios & Cash Flow Statement (operating, investing and financing activities)
Compute liquidity, solvency, activity and profitability ratios, showing working notes for each, and comment on the movement between two years.
Classify the effect of at least fifteen transactions on ratios such as current ratio, quick ratio and debt-equity ratio, deciding whether each rises, falls or stays unchanged.
Prepare a Cash Flow Statement under the indirect method, adjusting depreciation, amortisation, profit on sale of assets, interest and tax paid.
Classify cash flows into operating, investing and financing activities, including dividends paid, interest received, purchase of investments and proceeds from a share issue.
Your checkpoint
One ratio set covering eight ratios and one complete Cash Flow Statement, both finished within the exam time limit of one hour and fifteen minutes combined.
Accounting for Not-for-Profit Organisations & Accounting for Partnership Firms - Fundamentals (profit sharing, capital and current accounts, P&L Appropriation Account, goodwill) & Reconstitution of Partnership - Admission, Retirement and Death of a Partner & Dissolution of Partnership Firm (including Realisation Account) & Accounting for Share Capital (issue, forfeiture, reissue, balance sheet presentation) & Issue and Redemption of Debentures & Financial Statements of a Company - preparation and presentation & Analysis of Financial Statements and Accounting Ratios & Cash Flow Statement (operating, investing and financing activities)
Revise every domain through a two-page condensed sheet of formats: Revaluation, Capital and Current, P and L Appropriation, Realisation, Share Capital note, Debenture accounts, Statement of Profit and Loss, ratios and cash flow.
Re-solve every question in the weeks one to seven error logs without looking at the corrected answers.
Take two full-length mock papers of 80 marks in 2 hours 15 minutes under exam conditions and self-mark strictly against the scoring key.
Close the two lowest-scoring domains from the mocks by answering ten targeted questions from past Kerala DHSE question sets.
Your checkpoint
Two completed and self-marked mock papers with a written error analysis, and a confirmed mock score of at least 70 percent on the second paper.
Milestones
Week 2: Without notes, write the journal entries for goodwill adjustment on admission, on retirement and on death, and correctly handle a retiring partner's loan account in a new problem within 25 minutes.
Week 4: Score at least 60 percent in the proctored 60-minute test on Domains 2, 3 and 5, and correctly solve a forfeiture-plus-reissue problem with Capital Reserve on the first attempt.
Week 6: Produce a correct Income and Expenditure Account from a Receipts and Payments Account and a correct company Statement of Profit and Loss, each within the allotted time, with fewer than two errors per statement.
Week 8: Score at least 70 percent on the final full-length mock, with no domain scoring below 50 percent and the two heaviest domains, 3 and 2, each scoring at least 65 percent.