Tamil Nadu HSE Second Year Accountancy study plan
Tamil Nadu HSE Second Year Accountancy · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Final Accounts of Sole Proprietors & Accounting Fundamentals and Basic Concepts
State the accounting equation and classify 30 given items into assets, liabilities and capital without error
Apply the matching, accrual and going-concern concepts to explain why eight stated transactions are recorded as they are
Prepare a trading account and profit and loss account for a sole trader from a given list of adjustments, treating closing stock, outstanding expenses and prepaid expenses
Distinguish capital expenditure from revenue expenditure across 15 items and justify each classification in one line
Your checkpoint
A handwritten set of final accounts (trading, profit and loss, balance sheet) for one sole-trader problem with at least five adjustments, self-marked against the correct treatment of each adjustment
Final Accounts of Sole Proprietors & Depreciation Accounting
Prepare a balance sheet with adjustments for depreciation, bad debts, provision for doubtful debts and interest on capital
Compute depreciation under straight-line and written-down-value methods for the same asset over four years and compare the two schedules
Record the journal entry for asset purchase, annual depreciation and asset disposal including profit or loss on sale
Solve three final-account problems under time pressure at 45 minutes each
Your checkpoint
A comparison table of straight-line versus written-down-value depreciation for one asset over four years, plus the disposal journal entries, checked for arithmetic accuracy
Partnership Accounts & Journal, Ledger and Trial Balance
Journalise 25 transactions covering capital introduction, drawings, interest on drawings and interest on capital in a partnership
Prepare ledger accounts and extract a trial balance that balances from those journal entries
Allocate profit among partners under a deed specifying salary, interest on capital and a 3:2 profit-sharing ratio
Draft the journal entries for admission of a partner covering goodwill, revaluation of assets and capital adjustment
Your checkpoint
A complete partnership admission problem: revaluation account, partners' capital accounts and the new balance sheet, with a balancing trial balance as proof of accuracy
Partnership Accounts & Subsidiary Books and Bank Reconciliation Statement
Prepare a profit and loss appropriation account and capital accounts for a firm where a partner retires, including the settlement of the retiring partner's dues
Record the dissolution of a firm: realisation account, cash account and partners' capital accounts
Write up a three-column cash book, a purchases book and a sales book from a mixed transaction list
Prepare a bank reconciliation statement from a cash book and pass book summary, explaining each reconciling item
Your checkpoint
One retirement or dissolution problem plus one bank reconciliation statement, both completed and reconciled to a zero difference
Company Accounts & Accounts from Incomplete Records
Journalise the issue of shares at par, at a premium and at a discount, and record calls in arrears and calls in advance
Prepare the share capital section of a company balance sheet showing authorised, issued, subscribed and called-up capital
Compute profit from incomplete records using the statement of affairs method and the conversion method for the same data set
Reconstruct a trading account and cash account from a single-entry summary and find the missing figure for purchases or sales
Your checkpoint
A company share-issue problem (application, allotment, first and final call with one defaulting shareholder) plus one incomplete-records problem solved by both methods, giving the same profit figure
Financial Statement Analysis and Ratio Analysis & Cash Flow Statement
Compute gross profit ratio, net profit ratio, current ratio, quick ratio, debt-equity ratio and stock turnover from a given balance sheet
Interpret six computed ratios in two sentences each, stating what the result signals about liquidity or profitability
Prepare a cash flow statement from operating, investing and financing activities using the indirect method
Reconcile net profit to net cash from operations by adjusting for depreciation, gain on sale and working capital changes
Your checkpoint
A one-page ratio analysis sheet with six ratios computed and interpreted, plus a complete indirect-method cash flow statement that reconciles opening and closing cash balances
Cost Accounting Fundamentals & Computerised Accounting & Subsidiary Books and Bank Reconciliation Statement
Classify 20 cost items into material, labour and overhead, and into direct and indirect
Compute prime cost, works cost and cost of production for a small manufacturing illustration
Describe how a computerised accounting system records a transaction from voucher entry to trial balance, and state two controls that prevent posting errors
Explain the purpose of the Imprest system and record petty cash transactions in an analytical petty cash book
Your checkpoint
A cost sheet for one product showing prime cost, works cost and cost of production, plus a written half-page comparison of manual versus computerised accounting controls
Accounting Fundamentals and Basic Concepts & Journal, Ledger and Trial Balance & Depreciation Accounting & Final Accounts of Sole Proprietors & Accounts from Incomplete Records & Partnership Accounts & Company Accounts & Financial Statement Analysis and Ratio Analysis & Cash Flow Statement & Cost Accounting Fundamentals & Computerised Accounting
Answer two full-length model papers under a 3-hour timer, allocating time by domain weight
Review every wrong answer and write the correct rule or format beside it
Re-derive the twelve formulas most often forgotten: depreciation, ratios, goodwill, cash flow adjustments and incomplete-records profit
Redo the two weakest problems from weeks 1 to 7 without referring to notes
Your checkpoint
Two completed timed model papers with a self-marked error log listing each mistake, the corrected rule and the domain it belongs to
Milestones
Week 2: Can prepare a full set of sole-trader final accounts with depreciation and provisioning adjustments in under 50 minutes with no arithmetic errors
Week 4: Can journalise, post and balance a partnership problem end to end, and prepare a bank reconciliation statement that reconciles exactly
Week 6: Can compute six ratios and a full indirect-method cash flow statement from raw financial statements without prompts
Week 8: Scores at least 75 percent on each of two timed full-length model papers, with no repeated error from the week 8 error log