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Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA MA – FIA FMA › Normal loss and process accounts and scrap value.
Why is normal loss added to the right side of the process account alongside output? Why is it not subtracted from output? It is a loss right?
Then why is it recorded at its scrap value? Isn’t scrap value a revenue which reduces costs?
The loss is not subtracted from the output, it is subtracted from the input!
The output is the input less whatever is lost.
The scrap value does reduce the costs – it is subtracted from all the costs in the process.
(Appreciate that although you are expected to understand the t-account entries, you cannot be asked to actually produce a t-account in the exam.)
so since the left side has to balance the right side, i.e the input figure must balance the output figure, the normal loss and any other abnormal loss is put on the right side with the output, while the input is placed on the left side?
Yes.
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Can we call normal loss Account as scrap account
Like in t account of normal loss
Normal loss account with scrap value
Dr.
Process account dollar 30.
Abnormal loss account dollar 30
Cr bank dollar 30
Yes, but you are not asked to write up t accounts in the exam.
