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Accounting
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What are the main differences between financial and management accounting?

Financial accounting is mainly focused on the external users of the financial information. Its main purpose is to communicate the financial position of the company. Preparing the financial statements is m...

Answered by Umar F. Accounting tutor
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What are the advantages of activity based costing?

It improves business processes, it allocates indirect costs based on a product’s cost driver, or the factor that creates the cost. As costs are allocated per product, a picture starts to emerge of which b...

Answered by Shabbir K. Accounting tutor
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What is depreciation? Why is its calculation necessary? Give an example of straight line depreciation.

Depreciation is a periodic year end accounting adjustment (not an actual cash change), which represents the physical wearing out of Non-Current Assets (NCAs) such as vehicles and buil...

Answered by Louis H. Accounting tutor
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What is ratio analysis and why is it being used?

Ratio analysis is a numerical technique of re-expressing financial statements. It aids decision making by summarising and interpreting financial statements more easily. There are different sets of ratios,...

Answered by Nazik S. Accounting tutor
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What is the difference between reducing balance method depreciation and straight line depreciation?

The reducing balance method takes off a percentage of the value of a Non Current Asset each year. For example a an asset that is valued at £50,000 and depreciated at a rate of 10% per year will be depreci...

Answered by Jack D. Accounting tutor
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