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Amity International Business School

AIBS
MIB, Semester 1 Accounting and Finance Navneet Saxena

Objective
Balance Sheet

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Balance Sheet

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A Balance Sheet is one of the financial statements A Balance Sheet is a statement of assets and liabilities of an enterprise at a given date It is called a Balance Sheet because it is a sheet of balances of those ledger accounts which have not been closed till the preparation of the Trading and Profit and Loss Account

Characteristics

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A Balance Sheet is only a statement and not an account It has no debit side or credit side The headings of the two sides are Assets and Liabilities A Balance Sheet is prepared at a particular point of time and not for a particular period

Characteristics

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The information contained in a Balance Sheet is true only at the particular point of time at which it is prepared A Balance Sheet is a summary of balances of those ledger accounts which have not been closed by transfer to the Trading and Profit and Loss Account A Balance Sheet shows the nature and value of assets and the nature and the amount of liabilities at a given date

Need for Preparation of Balance Sheet

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To ascertain the nature and value of assets of a business To ascertain the nature and amount of liabilities of a business To find out the financial solvency of an enterprise
An enterprise is considered to be solvent if its assets exceed its external liabilities

Contents of Balance Sheet


Assets Current Assets Investments Fixed Assets Tangible Fixed Assets Intangible Fixed Assets

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Contents of Balance Sheet


Liabilities Side Liabilities Current Liability Long-term Liability Capital

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Grouping and Marshalling of Assets and Liabilities

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Grouping putting together items of a similar nature under a common heading Marshalling order in which the various assets and liabilities are shown in the Balance Sheet The assets and liabilities can be shown either in the
Order of liquidity Order of permanency

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Recap
Balance Sheet

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