Incomplete records
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1 Overview
Introduction
This chapter deals with techniques that can be used to derive missing
information when the accounting records and ledgers are incomplete or
not available for some reason.
The techniques demonstrated in this chapter will be relevant to your
future ACCA studies in Financial Reporting.
2 Incomplete
records
When you are preparing a set of accounts, it is likely that you may not have all
of the information available to you to complete a set of financial statements.
It is likely that you may have an incomplete ledger or control accounts system.
If this is the case, you will have to use the best information that is available to
you and 'guestimate' any missing figures.
There are a number of different ways which we can use to calculate missing
figures and balances, such as:
•
Accounting
equation
method
•
Balancing
figure
approach
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Using cash/banking data, and
•
Profit ratios – mark-up and margin.
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