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  • January 26, 2025 at 8:23 pm #714998
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    Where are you Zainab?

    January 26, 2025 at 2:15 pm #714982
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    Where are you Zainab?

    December 3, 2024 at 6:33 am #713729
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    It cost $12,000 and has a 20 year life. So annual depreciation is $12,000 / 20 = $600

    Accumulated depreciation at 1 April is $3,600, so expired life is $3,600 / $600 = 6 years

    Revaluation takes place on 1 October, and that’s 6 months into the seventh year

    As at 1 April, it has been depreciated for 6 years. Before revaluation there is a further 6 months’ depreciation to charge (so $300 for that half year) and, as at 1 October it has been depreciated for 6 and a half years – thus leaving a remaining useful life of thirteen and a half years over which the revalued amount should be depreciated

    And that works out to be $10,800 / 13.5 = $800 for each year and, for the second half year from 1 October 20X4 to the year end that would be $400

    That gives a total of $300 + $400 = $700 for the year ended 31 March 20X5 and a figure for the SoFP of $10,800 – $400 = $10,400

    Does that make sense – I hope it helps

    In answer to your last post, no!

    December 2, 2024 at 9:06 pm #713712
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    Need to know date of purchase and depreciation policy!

    November 26, 2024 at 1:12 pm #713540
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    Because £2.5 million dollars worth of 50 cent shares means that there are 5 million shares of 50 cents each = $2.5 million

    October 26, 2024 at 7:13 am #712862
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    Sir, I believe that Anygary was asking about the detail of matters that standards require to be disclosed rather than simply the title and number of the Standards.

    I have the same problem in trying to memorise the detail of the required disclosures. Are we expected to know these or are they essentially a matter of common sense?

    September 14, 2024 at 3:01 pm #711486
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    I used to be the same! Until someone from OpenTuition pointed out to me … how will your result be affected by your current mental anguish?

    It won’t! Your worrying achieves nothing. That’s wrong, of course. It achieves hours of mental pain, lack of focus, unnecessary distractions, potential adverse affects at work.

    WHAT IS THE POINT of this worry? Nothing will change. Your result will not change – that’s all water under the bridge.

    Chill! Relax! Anything else is a waste of your time and focus.

    I also learned very quickly that it is impossible to predict your results in ACCA exams. Personally I was totally convinced that I had failed my Advanced Taxation exam. Not just convinced. Oh no! I absolutely KNEW that I had failed it. But I hadn’t 🙂

    The question is … So what if you have failed it? Would the Earth stop spinning? Would people think less of you? Would you be known as a FAILURE? Are your job prospects ruined? How many people in the future will ask ‘Did you pass your PM exam first time?’

    It’s not a life or death situation! When you qualify, do you think anyone – anyone at all – will ask about your exam journey?

    No one will. No one!

    So, move on, get your result in 20 days’ time. If you’ve passed, well done. FM next

    But, if you’ve not satisfied the ACCA with your attempt, then attempt it again in December. Become a master of stoicism and STOP WORRYING!

    Hope that helps 🙂

    December 15, 2023 at 12:49 pm #696826
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    What has this got to do with the ACCA Law paper?

    December 13, 2023 at 6:55 pm #696730
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    Chris, am I not right that, if a Share Premium Account exists, one of the few allowable uses of the Share Premium Account is to provide for the premium payable on the redemption of shares and / or debentures.

    Is that right?

    December 9, 2023 at 11:44 am #696477
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    No information here about Debtors!

    November 30, 2023 at 8:25 am #695752
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    So, was my post wrong? Contingent liability, no double entry. Just a note in financial statements?

    Contingent consideration, paid to subsidiary’s former shareholders, not to the subsidiary itself?

    November 26, 2023 at 7:13 am #695517
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    Surely, if it’s only contingent, there is no accounting double entry – or am I wrong? Isn’t it just a note in the financial statements

    And wouldn’t contingent consideration be paid to the former shareholders of the now-sold subsidiary and not to the subsidiary itself?

    May 21, 2023 at 7:55 pm #684791
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    Surely b is incorrect because the early delivery pre-empts Barbara being OBLIGED to take 100 bouquets

    March 9, 2023 at 9:08 am #680796
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    Ooops, sorry Mike

    March 8, 2023 at 1:15 pm #680491
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    OK – now give me the references or the sources of these two statements so that a) I can check that you have copied them correctly and b) so that I can read them in the original context

    OK?

    December 13, 2021 at 1:12 pm #644157
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    Why not look at the ACCA’s specimen exam Section B and see for yourself?

    September 18, 2021 at 3:48 pm #635977
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    Many of your predecessors seem to think so!

    September 18, 2021 at 10:42 am #635947
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    If we’re talking about the value of the raw material inventory, then the closing inventory valuation is at $5 unless even that purchase price has now been overtaken by a supplier’s price reduction so the retail value of that raw material inventory would be at the new reduced price

    If the inventory is finished / processed goods, then cost of those processed goods is $5 + $11 = $16 but realisable value is only $10 per the contract so the value of the closing inventory of processed goods will be $10

    It’s possible that your figure of $11 includes the purchase cost of $5 in which case the value of the closing inventory of finished goods would be the lower of nrv of $10 and costs incurred in bringing the inventory to its current location and condition ie $5 + $6 = $11

    So, again the value of the closing inventory of finished goods would be $10

    September 18, 2021 at 10:32 am #635946
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    I don’t have the question to hand so this is a guess! Is it maybe because the figure in the trial balance is in the credit column? In which case it will be included in current liabilities because it’s an overdraft

    September 17, 2021 at 8:07 am #635867
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    ALL exams can be done ‘on your own’ and none of them need a tutor

    It’s just that the help from a tutor makes learning that much easier

    August 15, 2021 at 12:39 pm #631644
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    In a reward type contract

    June 18, 2021 at 2:45 pm #625697
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    Anna, OpenTuition do not set exams and, in fact, have nothing to do directly with ACCA, BPP, Kaplan nor any other organisation

    If you wish to take a mock law exam, you will need to purchase one from any of those three organisations that I have mentioned – unless you can persuade them to let you have one at no cost

    June 15, 2021 at 10:00 pm #625372
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    There are no links between the Law exam and the tax exam

    If you have no plans at all to work in the UK, then Global would seem to be a sensible choice

    June 13, 2021 at 5:16 pm #625181
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    All of them in the revision kit!

    June 9, 2021 at 5:36 pm #624211
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    Many others before you have passed with just OpenTuition notes and lectures combined with (very, very) extensive use of a revision kit

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