KSEAB II PUC Accountancy study materials
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KSEAB II PUC Accountancy study plan

KSEAB II PUC Accountancy · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Accounting for Partnership Firms: Fundamentals

  • Build the profit-sharing logic from scratch by solving ten problems where interest on capital, interest on drawings, and salary/commission interact, and record each adjustment in the Profit and Loss Appropriation Account

  • Construct the three partner capital accounts and the current accounts for the same ten problems, distinguishing fixed from fluctuating capital methods and stating which method each problem implies

  • Derive the interest on drawings formula for equal monthly, mid-period, and beginning-of-period drawings and verify each answer arithmetically

  • Draw up a partner's loan account and explain in writing why interest on a partner's loan is a charge against profit rather than an appropriation

Your checkpoint

A single handwritten register of 15 solved partnership-fundamentals problems, each with a complete Profit and Loss Appropriation Account and all partner accounts, plus a one-page formula sheet for interest on drawings

Week 2

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

  • Compute sacrificing ratio and gaining ratio in six admission scenarios and show the working for every partner whose share changes

  • Pass the full journal entries for goodwill on admission under the premium method and the revaluation method, and state when AS 26 treatment is used

  • Prepare Revaluation Account, partners' capital accounts, and the opening balance sheet for four admission cases involving asset revaluation and unrecorded liabilities

  • Solve three retirement and two death cases, including the deceased partner's share of profit to date of death and the executor's account

Your checkpoint

A comparison table of eight admission/retirement cases listing sacrificing ratio, gaining ratio, goodwill treatment, and the final capital balance of each continuing partner

Week 3

Reconstitution of Partnership: Admission, Retirement and Death of a Partner & Dissolution of Partnership Firms

  • Reconstruct a partnership's balance sheet from a trial balance containing revaluation, goodwill, and accumulated reserves, twice, without referring to a solution

  • Distinguish dissolution of a firm from dissolution of a partnership in writing and list the rights of a partner on dissolution

  • Pass journal entries for realisation of assets, settlement of liabilities, realisation expenses, and the Garner versus insolvency rules for an insolvent partner

  • Prepare a Realisation Account and a Memorandum Balance Sheet for the insolvent-partner case, applying the rule in Garner v. Murray to distribute the deficiency

Your checkpoint

Two full dissolution problems solved end to end (one ordinary, one with an insolvent partner) with Realisation Account, all capital accounts, bank account, and Memorandum Balance Sheet in one sitting under time

Week 4

Accounting for Share Capital

  • Journalise the issue of shares at par, at premium, and at a discount, and explain in writing why a discount on issue is debited to a separate account

  • Record pro-rata allotment and calls in arrears for two over-subscribed issues, including the Calls-in-Arrears and Calls-in-Advance accounts

  • Journalise forfeiture of shares issued at par and at premium, and reissue of forfeited shares, then compute the amount transferred to Capital Reserve

  • Distinguish nominal, authorised, issued, subscribed, called-up, paid-up, and reserve capital in a labelled table with a worked example

Your checkpoint

A complete share-capital problem set of six questions covering oversubscription, forfeiture, and reissue, with a capital-reserve figure reconciled to the Share Forfeiture Account

Week 5

Issue and Redemption of Debentures & Financial Statements of Companies

  • Journalise debenture issue at par, at premium, and at discount, and record the interest accrual and payment entries for two years

  • Compare the sinking fund method with the DRR (Debenture Redemption Reserve) method for debenture redemption and compute the DRR and DRR investment amounts under current rules

  • Prepare the balance sheet in Schedule III format for a company from a given trial balance, placing items in the correct current and non-current classifications

  • Compute the three key Schedule III subtotals from a trial balance: current assets, current liabilities, and the surplus shown under Reserves and Surplus

Your checkpoint

One fully formatted Schedule III balance sheet plus a debenture redemption schedule showing DRR, DRR investment, and the redemption entry for each year

Week 6

Analysis of Financial Statements: Comparative and Common-Size Statements & Accounting Ratios

  • Build comparative income statements and balance sheets from two years of data and calculate absolute and percentage change for every line item

  • Prepare a common-size statement of profit and loss and a common-size balance sheet, and write two sentences interpreting each statement

  • Compute and interpret the current ratio, quick ratio, debt-equity ratio, and proprietary ratio for two companies and identify which is more liquid and which is more leveraged

  • Compute the gross profit ratio, operating ratio, net profit ratio, stock turnover, and debtor turnover, and state what each change would signal to a lender

Your checkpoint

A two-year analysis file containing one comparative statement, one common-size statement, and a ratio table with written interpretation for each of the eight ratios

Week 7

Cash Flow Statement

  • Classify 20 transactions as operating, investing, or financing and justify each classification in one line

  • Prepare a cash flow statement under the indirect method from a balance sheet with notes, reconciling net profit before tax to net cash from operating activities

  • Adjust for depreciation, profit on sale of fixed assets, interest paid and received, and tax paid within the operating section

  • Reconcile the opening and closing cash and cash equivalents and explain why a profitable company can have negative operating cash flow

Your checkpoint

One complete indirect-method cash flow statement with a working note for each adjustment and a reconciliation of opening to closing cash and cash equivalents

Week 8

Computerised Accounting System & Accounting for Partnership Firms: Fundamentals & Reconstitution of Partnership: Admission, Retirement and Death of a Partner & Accounting for Share Capital

  • Explain in writing the components of a computerised accounting system, the meaning of a database and a management information system, and the advantages and limitations of computerised accounting

  • Differentiate manual and computerised accounting across five named criteria and distinguish a data table from a database

  • Solve one timed full-length practice paper covering partnership, reconstitution, and share capital sections under exam conditions

  • Review every error from the practice paper and rewrite the correct treatment for each mistake in a personal error log

Your checkpoint

A one-page computerised-accounting summary sheet plus a corrected error log from the mock paper containing at least ten rewritten journal or presentation corrections

Milestones

Week 2: Complete a full admission-of-partner problem from trial balance to final balance sheet in 40 minutes with no notes, scoring all revaluation and goodwill entries correctly

Week 4: Score at least 80 percent on a self-made 25-mark partnership and share-capital test, with no error in sacrificing ratio or capital-reserve computation

Week 6: Produce a comparative statement, a common-size statement, and eight ratios from a fresh data set within 60 minutes, with written interpretation for each ratio

Week 8: Score at least 60 percent on the timed full-length mock paper and close out every item in the error log