KASNEB CPA Financial Accounting Notes

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CPA FOUNDATION LEVEL

CONTENT

Introduction to accounting

• The nature and purpose of accounting
• Objectives of accounting
• Users of accounting information and their respective needs
• The accounting equation
• Regulatory framework of accounting (regulatory bodies such as ICPAK, IFAC,
  IASB, IPSASB, IAESB)
• Accounting standards (IASs/IFRSs) (importance and limitations)
• Professional ethics
• Accounting concepts/principles
• Qualities of useful accounting information

Recording transactions

• Source documents: quotations, purchase orders, statement of account,
  remittance advice, receipts, petty cash vouchers, sales and purchase invoice,
  credit notes and debit notes, bank statements
• Books of original entry: sales journal, purchases journal, returns inwards journal,
  returns outward journal, cash book, petty cash book and general journal
• Double entry and the ledger; use of T- accounts and double entry aspects (debit
  and credit), sales ledger and purchases ledger
• The trial balance
• Computerised accounting systems – role of computers, application and
  accounting softwares in the accounting process, benefits and challenges of
  operating computerised accounting systems

Accounting for assets and liabilities

Assets

• Property, plant and equipment – recognition, capital and revenue
  expenditure, measurement (depreciation and revaluation), disposal and
  disclosures, property, plant and equipment schedule
• Intangible assets – recognition, measurement (amortisation, impairment
  and revaluation), disposals and disclosures
• Financial assets – examples and risks only
• Inventory – recognition, measurement and valuation using specific cost
  method, FIFO and weighted average cost only
• Trade receivables – bad debts and allowance for doubtful debts and
  receivables control accounts
• Accrued income and prepaid expenses
• Cash at bank – cash book and bank reconciliation statement
• Cash in hand – cash book and petty cash books

 Liabilities

• Bank overdraft – cash book and bank reconciliation statement
• Trade payables – control accounts
• Loans – accounting treatment of repayment of principal and interest
• Prepaid incomes and accrued expenses

Correction of errors and suspense account
Financial statements of a sole trader

• Income statement
• Statement of financial position

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Financial statements of a partnership

• Partnership agreement
• Introduction to partnership accounts
• Distinction between current and fixed capital
• Income statement
• Statement of financial position
• Changes in partnership – admission of a new partner, retirement, death and
  change in profit sharing ratio

 Financial statements of a company

• Types of share capital – ordinary shares and preference shares
• Issue of shares (exclude issue by instalment and forfeiture)
• Types of reserves – share premium, revaluation reserve, general reserves and
  retained profits
• Income tax – accounting treatment and presentation (exclude computation)
• Financial statements – income statement and statement of financial position
• Published financial statements (describe a complete set of published financial
  statements but not preparation)

Financial statements of a manufacturing entity

• Features of a manufacturing entity
• Classification and apportioning costs between manufacturing, selling and
  administration
• Financial statements – manufacturing account, income statement and statement
  of financial position

Accounts from incomplete records

• Features
• Types of incomplete records(pure single entry, simple single entry, quasi single
  entry)
• Ascertainment of profit by capital comparison
• Preparation of statement of affairs and profit determination
• Techniques of obtaining complete accounting information

Financial statements of a not for profit organisation

• Distinction between not for profit making organisation and profit making
  organisation
• Nature of receipts and payments account
• Accounting treatment of some special items
• Income and expenditure account
• Statement of financial position
  
  

Analysing financial statements

• Statement of cash flows (categories of cash, methods of preparing statement of
  cash flows and the importance)
• Financial ratios – definition, categories, analysis and interpretation, application
  and limitations

Introduction to Public Sector Accounting

• Features of public sector entities (as compared to private sector)
• Structure of the public sector (National and county governments, state
  corporations and other agencies)
• Regulatory structures and oversight [IPSASB, PSASB (establishment, mandate
  and functions), Director of Accounting Services, National Treasury, Parliamentary
  Committees, Accounting Officers at national and county levels]
• Objectives of public sector financial statements
• Objectives of IPSAS
• Accounting techniques in public sector (budgeting, cash, accrual, commitment
  and fund)
  (Preparation of financial statements excluded)

Emerging issues and trends

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