Stock
Hi,
I had a quick look at your post on accountingweb and have seen the answer someone gave you there which showed the way the P&L should be laid out.
Its the movement in stock that is added to the purchases.
So if on the first day of your financial year you had £1000 in stock, and during the year you purchased £2000 of stock, and at the next year end you have £1500 of stock, then you have actually used £1500 of purchases to "make" your sales. This appears as:-
Purchases +Opening Stock - Less Stock = Cost of Goods for resale
£2000+£1000-£1500=£1500
Hopefully this clears it up !
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Thanks very much Phil. The assets q was just me being stupid, only the lasy year's stock question I am confused about now and have asked a Q on accountingweb (have answered enough excel/IT qs there in past) . I will get back to you if necessary once checked through and made sure figures are right.
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Balance Sheet that doesnt
Xoggoth, if you would like me to take a quick look at it I can do, everyone has made good suggestions, but it still doesnt seem clear what the problem is so I think a look at the whole picture might help. Just send me the P&L and BS only if you wish, here are my contact details. You could also try to PM me, but not sure if its working now.
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Hang on, me being daft. Suddenly twigged that it should balance as the bank balance will be less than expected from (income-expenses) by cost of capital so must have an error of about same amount elsewhere. Ta for answers.
PS Still not figured out the next year's stock bit though.
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Originally posted by Sockpuppet View PostBear in mind that:
Laptop £1000.
Depreciation: £200
Value: £800
But your accountant can do:
Profit before depreciation: £5000
Depreciation: £200
After depreciation: £4400
As you can write off 40% of a computer in the first year but only depreciate it over 5 years or something daft.
My accountant last year did it. Depreciated the asset by 1 value to give a book value then used another value to work out the depcn that was offset against CT.
Simple ... or not.
I'll dig out the accountants and see what they say,
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From an accounting point of view you write off the £200 depreciation as an expense to yield a pre-tax profit of £4800 (in your example)
From a tax point of view you can write off whatever HMRC allows you to in the form of Capital Allowances or AIA. Let's assume 50% first year allowance. So taxable profit is £4800 less £500 (50% of £1000 laptop) plus £200 since depreciation is not an allowable expense for tax purposes. This gives a taxable profit of £4500. It is on this amount which you work out CT.
QB.
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Bear in mind that:
Laptop £1000.
Depreciation: £200
Value: £800
But your accountant can do:
Profit before depreciation: £5000
Depreciation: £200
After depreciation: £4400
As you can write off 40% of a computer in the first year but only depreciate it over 5 years or something daft.
My accountant last year did it. Depreciated the asset by 1 value to give a book value then used another value to work out the depcn that was offset against CT.
Simple ... or not.
I'll dig out the accountants and see what they say,
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Start of year: i buy laptop for £1000 so assets increase by £1000, bank decreases by £1000. Balances so far.
12 months later: asset depreciates by £200 so asset is now £800. In P&L depreciation is an expense of £200, so P&L decreases by £200. The whole thing should still balance!
QB.
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Ta, but as I said is first year so nowt brought forward and I have done things one at a time, it is not the figures. All balances fine if I leave out all figures relating to the fixed assets. There is some fundamental accounting problem I am missing.
On top half balance sheet side = current asset value = purchase price minus current depreciation
On lower half balance sheet (profit c/fwd) = minus current depreciation only
It makes no sense.
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As a last resort you can always rewind to the start of the financial year and apply all the transactions one at a time, making sure BS balances as you go along. Long-winded but at least you'll identify the problem.
QB.
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You have closing stock but no opening stock.
Re current year Depreciation - Debit the P&L and credit the balance sheet; do you have deprecation brought forward from the previous year?
Fixed assets should be
Cost,
Less Dep'n b/f,
Less current years Dep'n
= Net book value
Hope it helps.
Robot
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Basic accounting problem
Can't get balance sheet to balance in my exceedingly small business although my books and every example I have looked at says I am doing it right and my previous contracting accounts prepared by accountants were done the same way. It isn't the figures, it is just that the accounting principles for fixed assets and stock appear to make no sense.
Keeping it very simple, no divis/loans to director and everything paid so no debtors or creditors except CT, ignore trivial bank interest/share capital. Also is first year so no carried forward stuff.
P&L
Income
-cost of stock purchases
+stock value
-current expenses
-depreciation
-corporation tax
=retained profit
Balance sheet
Fixed asset value
+Bank/cash
+stock value
-corporation tax (as creditor)
=retained profit from above P&L
CT/stock cancel out and I can see that surplus money goes into bank account, that all adds up fine, it's the fixed assets that are a problem. In P&L we have depreciation but in balance sheet we have current value which is purchase price less depreciation. That does not compute. If next year I start subtracting previous year's stock from profits with no corresponding entry on the balance sheet that computes even less.
Profit for CT is correct and the balance sheet errors are small but if I just fudge the balance sheet and leave a basic problem these errors will keep accumulating year on year. Anyone point out what I am doing wrong? The company has insufficient profits to pay accountants.
Cheers for any ideas.Last edited by xoggoth; 3 October 2008, 10:58.Tags: None
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