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Company Account - Issue of Shares

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When a company decides to raise (additional) capital through the capital market or stock exchange, it issues out shares. It does this by advertising in a prospectus. The prospectus will detail out the available number of shares to be subscribed for, and the issuing price of the shares. Prospective buyers who wish to be shareholders of the company can now subscribe to the offer made by buying the shares. Buyers are expected to pay for the number of shares they indicate interest in. once they pay through participating banks, they are thereafter issued share certificates which confirm to them that they are now shareholders in the company. BOOKKEEPING ENTRIES When shares are offered and are subscribed for, two basic bookkeeping actions are taken. These are explained below 1.     When prospective buyers pay and cash is received. A bank account will have to be opened to receive the cash and application account will need to be opened to record the applications rece...

DO WORKERS WORK MORE WITH INCREASED WAGES?

The economists told us to sell more at higher prices and less at lower prices. Is this always true? There is a concept call the concept of supply in economics. It is a concept that addresses the quantity of goods made available for sale in the market. Recall that market does not necessarily mean a place where people gather to exchange goods and or services. Market, in economics, could be seen as the contact between a buyer and a seller for the purposes of exchanging goods and services. This means that online purchase and or sale of goods and services today constitute a market. Why? There is the existence of contact. That is people have been brought together (brought to a contact) to exchange what they have. Back to our interest! The quantity of goods that is made available for exchange between knowledgeable, willing buyer and seller is what is known as supply. On the part of a labour, the supply refers to the number of hours the labour is willing and ready to make avail...

Methods of Calculating Depreciation

There are different methods of calculating depreciation of assets. These include the following: Straight Line method Reducing balance method Sum-of-the-year digit method Service hour method Production output method Revaluation method Sinking Fund method Straight Line Method This method spreads the entire depreciable value of an asset equally over its useful life. Here, the depreciable value is divided by the number of economic useful years of the asset and allocated yearly. Suitability of this method The straight line method of depreciation is best suitable for assets as patent and leases. The reason is that for such assets, time is the important factor that is used to write off the carrying amount of these assets. Although some organizations use this method just because of its simplicity, yet it has some  contentious  shortcomings.  The major disadvantage of this method is that   It is not realistic as equal amount is charged every ye...