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- May 3, 2018 at 2:10 pm #449934
Hello sir,
The electricity account for the year ended 30 June 20X1 was as follows.
$
Opening balance for electricity accrued at 1 July 20X0 – 300
Payments made during the year
1 August 20X0 for three months to 31 July 20X0 – 600
1 November 20X0 for three months to 31 October 20X0 -720
1 February 20X1 for three months to 31 January 20X1 -900
30 June 20X1 for three months to 30 April 20X1- 840
1 August 20X1 for three months to 31 July 20X1- 840What was the expense charged to the statement of profit or loss for the year ended
30 June 20X1 and the accrual at 30 June 20X1?Accrued at June 20X1 Charged to SPL
year ended 30 June 20X1
$ $A $Nil $3,060
B $460 $3,320
C $560 $3,320
D $560 $3,420I am confused with this question.Here it is your answer that i have copied from other forum topic:
————————-We need the total expense for the period 1 July X0 to 30 June X1.
So go through the payments and list what is relevant for this period.The first payment is for May, June, July X0, so only July is relevant – 1/3 x 600 = 200
The whole of the next free payments are relevant: 720 ; 900; 840.However the last payment is for May, June and July X1. Only May and June are relevant for our period, so – 2/3 x 840 = 560
Then add them all up
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But the right answer for the charge to SPL for the year ended 30 June 20X1 is 3320 in the BPP F3 ACCA revision kit 2016-2017.How can it be? Thanks in advanceMay 3, 2018 at 4:08 pm #449965Either the post you refer to did not give all the information, or I made a mistake in my answer 🙁
The total cash paid during the year was 600 + 720 + 900 + 840 = 3,060.
We need to add on the accrual at the end of this year of 560, and subtract the accrual made at the end of last year of 300.
3060 + 560 – 300 = $3,320.The difference is because it turned out that the opening accrual of 300 was wrong. However we cannot go back and change last year and so the difference is accounted for this year.
I do explain this point in my free lectures. The lectures are a complete free course for Paper F3 and cover everything needed to be able to pass the exam well.
May 4, 2018 at 7:51 am #450024Thank you very much sir
May 4, 2018 at 8:42 am #450037You are welcome 🙂
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