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Capital Maintenance

ANAnuja Nair9y ago
Question) Ross Ltd made a profit of $350 000 for 20X9 based on historical cost accounting principles. Specific price indices increase during the year by 20% and general price indices by 5%. How much profit should Ross Ltd record for 20X9 under three different capital maintenance concept : money financial capital maintenance, real financial capital maintenance, physical capital maintenance? For the money financial capital maintenance i understand the answer is $350 000. But i don't know how to work out the financial or physical capital maintenance since neither the opening capital nor the closing capital is given. The answer key : Money financial capital maintenance $350 000 Real financial capital maintenance $332 500 Physical capital maintenance $280 000
MikeLittleMikeLittleTutor9y ago#1
$350,000 achieved after a 20% price increase means that, without that increase, the profit would only have been $280,000 ie $350,000 represents 100%. What would be the equivalent figure without that 20%? $280,000 Similar thinking behind the real financial maintenance concept - if $350,000 is 100% after a 5% increase what value would 95% be? $332,500 These theoretical nonsense concepts play only a very TINY role in F7 - much easier marks to look for and those topics will be almost guaranteed to appear in every F7 exam!
ANAnuja Nair9y ago#2
Got it! Thank you sir !
MikeLittleMikeLittleTutor9y ago#3
You're welcome
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