Exam Revision: mark-weighted revision for both papers, ten condensed topic sections built around full worked statement formats and method-mark technique, a one-page reference sheet and an exam-day strategy.
Accounting rewards the prepared, not the clever. A neat, well laid-out answer that shows every step beats a rushed final figure every time.· method marks are yours to keep
This is your map of the whole Grade 12 Accounting exam, not a re-teach of the content. Read it once, then use the topic-weighting table to decide where every remaining revision hour goes. One question drives everything here: where do the marks actually live, and how do I capture them cleanly?
How to read the flags in this guide
Symbol
Label
What it flags for you
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EXAM FAVOURITE
A question type that shows up in almost every sitting. Rehearse it until the layout is automatic.
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FREQUENTLY TESTED
A high-yield calculation the paper returns to again and again. Never leave it half-learnt.
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COMMON MISTAKE
The exact slip markers penalise. Reading it now stops you repeating it under pressure.
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EASY MARK
A low-effort 1 to 2 mark grab, usually a subtotal or a definition. Weak candidates leave these on the table.
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ACTIVE RECALL
A self-test block. Answer it from memory first, then check. Recall beats re-reading.
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KEY DEFINITION
A definition the marker wants stated precisely. Loose wording loses the mark.
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MUST MEMORISE
A format, formula or list you should be able to write with your eyes shut.
⚡ MUST MEMORISE
The 4 Golden Rules, apply them to every single question:
Read the REQUIRED before the INFORMATION. Every question is built as a short scenario, then REQUIRED, then INFORMATION. Some figures are deliberate distractors that fit nothing, so decide what the question actually asks for before you touch a number.
Show every working. Most marks in this subject are method marks. Write the formula, substitute, then solve on separate lines. A correct method with a wrong final figure still scores, a bare wrong number scores nothing.
Own-figure marking is on your side. Later parts carry forward answers from earlier parts. One early arithmetic slip does not have to sink every downstream mark, as long as the method from that point on is sound, so never abandon a question after one mistake.
Marks equal answers. A 6-mark note wants roughly six scoring lines, and shaded or blocked-out cells in the Answer Book are instructions, not omissions. Count the marks, then count your entries before moving on.
📖 KEY DEFINITION
The real exam paper structure. Accounting is written as two separate papers, each 150 marks, each 2 hours, for a combined 300 marks. The two papers are not written on the same day, so you can peak twice. Every question is compulsory, there is no choice and nothing is optional.
Paper
Discipline it examines
Marks / time
What sits inside it
Paper 1
Financial Reporting and Evaluation
150 · 2 hours
Company Income Statement, Balance Sheet and notes, Cash Flow Statement, analysis and interpretation of ratios, published statements and the audit report, fixed assets, inventory valuation, corporate governance.
Paper 2
Managerial Accounting, Internal Auditing and Control
150 · 2 hours
Reconciliations (bank, debtors, creditors, age analysis), VAT, manufacturing and cost accounting, cash budget and projected income statement, internal control and audit, stock systems and inventory valuation.
Each paper carries 3 to 5 questions. There is no fixed rule on how the 150 marks split across those questions, so the number of questions and their size shifts from paper to paper by design, never assume last year's layout. Two rules are stable: ethics can be examined in either paper, and up to 20% of a paper may draw on Grade 10 and Grade 11 work (reconciliations and the cash budget lean on Grade 11 especially).
Cognitive levels and challenge
The examiner sets each paper to two separate targets at once. Cognitive level is about the kind of thinking a question needs, degree of challenge is about how hard it is to do, and the guideline states a higher-order question need not be difficult and a lower-order one need not be easy. Both splits below are fixed proportions of every paper.
Cognitive level
Share of paper
Lower order (recall, straight calculation)
30%
Middle order (apply, prepare, reconcile)
40%
Higher order (analyse, evaluate, advise)
30%
Degree of challenge
Share of paper
Easy
30%
Moderate
40%
Difficult
30%
🔥 FREQUENTLY TESTED
On top of the split above, 10% to 15% of every paper is problem-solving set in a new or unfamiliar context, testing critical and creative thinking rather than a drilled routine. You cannot rote-learn these, so practise reading a scenario you have never seen and deciding which known method fits it.
💡 EASY MARK
Time budget: 150 marks in 120 minutes is roughly 1 mark every 48 seconds, or about 1 minute for every 1,25 marks. Write the mark value of each question at its top, keep pace against the clock, and reserve the final 10 minutes to recheck that every statement balances and every outflow carries a bracket.
Topic weighting, where your hours should go
Nothing below is an official percentage. The only weighting the guideline fixes is the even 50/50 split between Paper 1 and Paper 2, and 150 marks each. The ranges are evidence-based estimates from the shape of recent national papers, and their real job is to tell you where to spend revision time. Read the "where it hits hardest" column as your action list.
Topic
Approx. marks
Priority
Where it hits hardest
PAPER 1 · Financial Reporting and Evaluation
Company financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and notes)
≈ 40 to 70
High
The backbone of Paper 1. Full statements or notes built from scattered balances plus a list of adjustments. Almost guaranteed every sitting.
Cash Flow Statement
≈ 25 to 40
High
Reconstructing missing line items (tax paid, dividends paid, fixed assets) and completing the statement with correct brackets.
Analysis and interpretation of financial statements
≈ 35 to 55
High
Choosing the right financial indicator, calculating it, then commenting with figures. Often fused with the statements above.
Published statements and the audit report
≈ 15 to 25
Medium-High
Reading a real-style audit report, naming the type of opinion, and linking it to corporate governance.
Fixed assets and inventory valuation
≈ 15 to 30
Medium-High
The fixed-asset movement note, and FIFO or weighted-average stock valuations. These also surface in Paper 2.
Companies concepts, GAAP, ethics and corporate governance
≈ 10 to 20
Medium
Woven through the paper as short items and one written ethics or governance question.
PAPER 2 · Managerial Accounting, Internal Auditing and Control
Manufacturing and cost accounting
≈ 35 to 50
High
The Production Cost Statement, unit cost and break-even, tested in both directions. A near-certain fixture.
Cash budget and projected income statement
≈ 35 to 50
High
Completing a budget and interpreting variances, often with a debtors or creditors collection schedule feeding it.
Reconciliations (bank, debtors, creditors, age analysis)
≈ 25 to 40
Medium-High
Interpreting rather than only preparing. Leans heavily on Grade 11 method carried into Grade 12.
VAT
≈ 10 to 20
Medium
Input, output and the amount payable or receivable, plus the VAT control account. Short but reliable.
Internal control and audit
≈ 15 to 30
Medium-High
A written control weakness plus a matching solution, threaded through the calculation questions, not a stand-alone block.
Stock systems and inventory valuation
≈ 15 to 25
Medium
Perpetual versus periodic, and valuing closing stock. Shares the inventory content with Paper 1.
⭐ EXAM FAVOURITE
The questions closest to guaranteed every sitting, front-load these first:
Company financial statements (Paper 1), a full statement or a full set of notes built from adjustments.
Analysis and interpretation (Paper 1), calculate a financial indicator, then comment with figures and a conclusion.
Production Cost Statement and break-even (Paper 2), the manufacturing workhorse.
Cash budget (Paper 2), completing a partly blank budget and explaining a variance.
An ethics or internal control written item, which can appear in either paper for quick marks if you have a structure ready.
⚠️ COMMON MISTAKE
Answering a question the paper did not ask. Because papers deliberately include distractor figures and repeat sub-question wording in the Answer Book, learners reuse a number in two places or fill a shaded cell that was meant to stay blank. Strike out each figure as you use it, and treat a shaded line as an instruction, not a gap to fill.
BEFORE YOU START
Warm your memory up with these five. No answers given, that is deliberate. If any make you hesitate, that is where tonight's revision starts.
How many marks is each paper worth, how long is it, and how many questions can it contain?
Which discipline does Paper 1 examine, and which does Paper 2 examine?
What are the three cognitive-level percentages, and what extra share is set aside for unfamiliar problem-solving?
Which two Paper 1 topics and which two Paper 2 topics are closest to guaranteed every sitting?
Why does showing your workings matter even when your final figure is wrong, and what is own-figure marking?
A statement that balances is a statement you can trust. Build it line by line and let the totals prove themselves.· the equation never lies
This is the backbone of Paper 1. You will either prepare a full Income Statement or Balance Sheet, or build the notes behind one, from a scattered set of balances and a list of adjustments. Revise it as one chain: adjust the draft profit, tax it, carry the after-tax profit into Retained Income, and close the equation with the Balance Sheet.
What you must be able to do
Adjust a draft net profit for stock deficits, income received in advance, prepaid expenses and outstanding depreciation, marking each item plus or minus with a reason
Calculate company income tax on the corrected profit and carry the net profit after tax into the Retained Income note
Complete the Ordinary Share Capital note through a share issue and a buy-back, removing repurchased shares at the average price
Complete the Retained Income note, subtracting the premium paid above average on a buy-back and both the interim and final dividends
Reconcile one asset class in the Tangible Assets note from opening carrying value through additions and depreciation to closing carrying value
Derive a missing Balance Sheet figure by reversing a financial indicator or by applying the accounting equation
What earns the marks
Adjust a draft net profit for a list of items, each flagged plus or minus with a reason, then apply company income tax to reach net profit after tax
Build the Ordinary Share Capital note through a share issue and a share buy-back
Build the Retained Income note, folding in after-tax profit, dividends and any buy-back premium
Prepare the Trade and Other Payables, Trade and Other Receivables and Tangible Assets notes
Complete a partly blank Balance Sheet, deriving missing figures from financial indicators or the accounting equation
📖 KEY DEFINITIONShareholders' equity is the shareholders' total claim on the business, equal to ordinary share capital plus retained income. Authorised share capital is the ceiling of shares the company may issue, a maximum only. Issued share capital is the shares actually sold, and this is the figure that appears in the Balance Sheet. Retained income is accumulated after-tax profit not yet paid out as dividends, kept in the business to fund growth.
⚡ MUST MEMORISE
The accounting equation must always hold: Total assets = Shareholders' equity + Total liabilities.
Net profit after tax = Net profit before tax − income tax (company rate 27%).
Shares repurchased leave the share capital note at the average price, never the actual cash price paid.
Any amount paid above the average price on a buy-back is subtracted in the Retained Income note, not the share capital note.
A final dividend declared but unpaid at year-end is a current liability: Shareholders for dividends.
The Balance Sheet skeleton
Section
What goes in it
Non-current assets
Tangible/fixed assets (note 3), financial assets such as fixed deposits maturing beyond 12 months
Current assets
Inventories, trade and other receivables, cash and cash equivalents
Shareholders' equity
Ordinary share capital, retained income
Non-current liabilities
Mortgage loan, the portion repayable beyond 12 months only
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables, bank overdraft, current portion of the loan
Worked example · Adjusting the draft profit, then taxing it (invented figures for practice)
Q: Thandeka Traders Ltd has a draft net profit before tax of R1 260 000. REQUIRED: correct the profit for the items below, then calculate income tax at 27% and net profit after tax.
Adjustment
Effect on profit
Amount
Trading stock deficit found on stocktake
Subtract
−R15 000
Rent income received in advance for next year
Subtract (income not yet earned)
−R24 000
Insurance prepaid at year-end
Add (expense reduced)
+R9 000
Depreciation still to be provided
Subtract
−R30 000
(a) Net effect of adjustments: −15 000 − 24 000 + 9 000 − 30 000 = −R60 000
(c) Income tax at 27%: R1 200 000 × 27% = R324 000
(d) Net profit after tax: R1 200 000 − R324 000 = R876 000 (carried into the Retained Income note below)
The share notes, where learners lose marks
⭐ EXAM FAVOURITE
A share issue during the year followed by a buy-back, tested through both the Ordinary Share Capital note and the Retained Income note, is a recurring favourite. Expect it paired with a short ethics question, for example a director engineering a buy-back to regain a majority shareholding.
Worked example · Share capital and retained income through a buy-back (invented figures for practice)
Q: Thandeka Traders Ltd opened the year with 800 000 ordinary shares at an average of R4,00 each. During the year it issued 200 000 new shares at R5,00, then later repurchased 50 000 shares at R6,00 each. Opening retained income was R620 000. Interim dividends of R280 000 were paid and a final dividend of R380 000 was declared. Net profit after tax was R876 000 (from the example above). REQUIRED: complete both notes.
Shareholders' equity ties together: R3 990 000 + R746 000 = R4 736 000 to the Balance Sheet.
⚠️ COMMON MISTAKE
Removing repurchased shares at the actual price paid instead of the average price. Only the average-price slice reduces share capital, the premium over average reduces retained income. Mixing these two is the single most penalised error in this topic. A second slip: using the wrong share count for the final dividend, it uses the shares in issue at year-end, not the opening number.
💡 EASY MARK
The final dividend calculation is a quick grab: closing shares in issue × the declared cents per share. It also appears as a current liability (Shareholders for dividends) inside Trade and Other Payables, so the same figure earns marks in two places if you carry it across.
The Tangible Assets note
Each asset class reconciles from opening carrying value to closing carrying value. Split the numbers into three clean buckets, assets held all year, assets bought this year, and assets sold this year, and never blend them in one calculation.
Equipment (invented figures)
R
Carrying value at beginning (cost 500 000 − accumulated depreciation 180 000)
320 000
Additions at cost
+120 000
Depreciation for the year
−74 000
Carrying value at end (cost 620 000 − accumulated depreciation 254 000)
366 000
🔥 FREQUENTLY TESTED
Deriving a missing figure from a financial indicator. Given a current ratio of 2:1 and current liabilities of R200 000, current assets = R200 000 × 2 = R400 000. The same reverse-the-ratio trick backs out inventory from the acid-test ratio, or shareholders' equity from the debt-equity ratio. This reverse use of a ratio to populate a statement is the distinctly Grade 12 twist.
🧠 ACTIVE RECALL
Which figure appears in the Shareholders' equity section of the Balance Sheet?(2)
A company's Memorandum of Incorporation authorises 2 000 000 shares. It has issued 1 200 000 of them at an average price of R3,50. What appears as Ordinary Share Capital in the Balance Sheet?(2)
A company has authorised share capital of 5 000 000 shares and has issued 3 000 000 of them. Without changing its Memorandum of Incorporation, how many more shares may it still issue?(2)
Which statement about authorised share capital is correct?(2)
During the year a company issues 300 000 of its remaining authorised but unissued shares at R2,50 each. The effect on the Balance Sheet is:(2)
When a company repurchases its own shares, at what value are those shares removed from the Ordinary Share Capital note?(2)
A company has 500 000 shares in issue and ordinary share capital of R1 750 000. It repurchases 20 000 shares at R5,00 each. What amount is removed from the Ordinary Share Capital note?(2)
Ordinary share capital stands at R3 000 000 for 1 200 000 shares. The company buys back 100 000 shares at R3,10 each. The closing balance of the Ordinary Share Capital note is:(2)
After a share buy-back is recorded correctly, the average price per share of the shares that remain in the Ordinary Share Capital note:(2)
A company opened with 900 000 shares at an average of R2,00, issued 300 000 shares at R2,80, and later repurchased 60 000 shares at R3,00. The amount removed from the Ordinary Share Capital note is:(2)
A final dividend is declared at year-end but has not yet been paid. Where does it appear?(2)
A company with 950 000 shares in issue at year-end declares a final dividend of 40 cents per share, payable next month. In the Balance Sheet this appears as:(2)
A final dividend is declared on the last day of the financial year and will be paid six weeks later. Which item is NOT affected on the year-end Balance Sheet?(2)
During the year a company paid an interim dividend of R150 000 and, at year-end, declared a final dividend of R240 000 that is still unpaid. What is shown as Shareholders for dividends, and what is deducted as dividends in the Retained Income note?(2)
A company declared its final dividend on 28 February, its year-end, and paid it on 15 March. On the Balance Sheet dated 28 February the dividend is:(2)
A company has opening retained income of R620 000, net profit after tax of R350 000, and total dividends of R180 000, with no share buy-back. Closing retained income is:(4)
Opening retained income is R450 000, net profit after tax is R520 000, an interim dividend of R120 000 was paid and a final dividend of R200 000 was declared. There was no buy-back. Closing retained income is:(4)
Opening retained income is R300 000 and net profit after tax is R410 000. Dividends for the year total R150 000. The company also repurchased 20 000 shares at R5,00 each when the average share price was R3,00. Closing retained income is:(4)
A Retained Income note shows a closing balance of R910 000 after net profit after tax of R640 000, dividends of R330 000 and a buy-back premium of R25 000. What was the opening balance?(4)
Opening retained income is R180 000. Net profit before tax is R700 000, income tax is 27% and dividends of R260 000 were declared for the year. There was no buy-back. Closing retained income is:(4)
The SARS: Income Tax account has a debit balance at year-end. It is shown as:(2)
Provisional tax payments of R340 000 were made during the year. Income tax for the year is calculated at R324 000. At year-end the SARS: Income Tax account shows:(2)
Income tax for the year is R450 000 and provisional payments of R400 000 were made. In the Balance Sheet this is shown as:(2)
The SARS: Income Tax account has a credit balance of R28 000 at year-end. This means:(2)
Corrected net profit before tax is R1 200 000, the tax rate is 27% and provisional tax payments of R300 000 were made during the year. The closing SARS: Income Tax balance is:(2)
The portion of a long-term loan that must be repaid within the next 12 months is classified as:(2)
The mortgage loan balance at year-end is R900 000, of which R120 000 must be repaid within the next 12 months. The amount shown under Non-current liabilities is:(2)
A loan of R1 500 000 is repayable in five equal annual instalments, the first falling due in the coming financial year. What is shown under Non-current liabilities and under Current liabilities respectively?(2)
Why is the current portion of a long-term loan moved out of Non-current liabilities?(2)
A learner shows the full loan of R640 000 under Non-current liabilities even though R80 000 of it is due within the next 12 months. The effect of this error on the Balance Sheet is:(2)
Explain why issued share capital, and not authorised share capital, is the figure shown in the Balance Sheet.(4)
Issued shares are the ones actually sold and paid forThe examiner wants the reason issued capital is real: it is money that actually came into the business, so it measures what shareholders truly own.
Authorised capital is only a ceiling that may never be usedThe second half of the mark: authorised capital is a permission, a maximum, so recording it would show investment that does not exist.
Issued share capital is the shares the company has actually sold and allotted to shareholders, so it represents the real claim shareholders have on the business and belongs in equity.Authorised share capital is only the maximum number of shares the Memorandum of Incorporation permits the company to issue, a ceiling that may never be fully used, so it does not represent any actual investment and never appears in the Balance Sheet totals.
A company opened the year with 600 000 shares at an average of R3,00 each and issued 100 000 more at R4,40, then repurchased 40 000 shares at R5,00 each. Calculate the amount removed from the Ordinary Share Capital note and the amount subtracted in the Retained Income note. Show all workings.(6)
New average price after the issue: R3,20The average must be recalculated after the issue; using the opening R3,00 or the issue price R4,40 breaks every figure that follows.
Amount removed from the Ordinary Share Capital note: R128 000The share capital note only ever loses the average-price slice; 40 000 x R5,00 = R200 000 is the single most penalised error in this topic.
Premium subtracted in the Retained Income note: R72 000The excess over average is a distribution to the selling shareholders out of accumulated profit, so it reduces retained income, not share capital.
After issue the company holds 700 000 shares worth R2 240 000 (opening 600 000 x R3,00 = R1 800 000 plus new issue 100 000 x R4,40 = R440 000), giving an average price of R2 240 000 / 700 000 = R3,20.The 40 000 repurchased shares leave the share capital note at the average price: 40 000 x R3,20 = R128 000.The premium above average is (R5,00 - R3,20) x 40 000 = R1,80 x 40 000 = R72 000, which is subtracted in the Retained Income note.
Explain it to a Grade 8: what is "retained income", and why does paying a dividend make it go down?
Retained income is profit the company kept instead of handing outThe idea is that retained income is not cash in a drawer but the total of profit that stayed in the business over the years.
A dividend takes money out of that potThe dividend is the only thing in this story that takes profit away from the pot, so the total falls by the amount handed over.
Imagine the company is a piggy bank that the shareholders own together. Every year the business makes some profit, and after it has paid its tax, whatever is left can either be handed to the shareholders as a dividend or dropped back into the piggy bank to help the business grow. Retained income is simply the running total of all the after-tax profit that has been dropped back into the piggy bank over the years and kept.When the company pays a dividend, it is taking money out of that piggy bank and giving it to the shareholders, so the retained income total goes down by exactly what was paid out. It grows when profit is kept and shrinks when a dividend is paid.
Explain it to a Grade 8: when a company buys back its own shares for more than they are worth on its books, why do two different notes change?
The shares leave the share capital note at the average priceThe share capital note only ever records the original money; the buy-back removes that original money at the average, never the cash price.
The extra above average comes out of retained incomeThe premium is a distribution of profit to the selling shareholders, which is why it belongs with the kept-back profit and not the share capital.
Think of the share capital note as a list of the money shareholders originally put in. Every share on that list is recorded at the average of what the company received for it. When the company buys some of its shares back, it crosses them off that list at that same average price, not at the price it actually paid today, so the list stays fair for everyone who is still on it.But the company usually pays more than the average to get the shares back. That extra amount is a gift out of the profits the company had saved up, so it comes out of retained income, the pot of kept-back profit, and not out of the share capital list. Two notes change because the buy-back has two parts: the original money going back, and the extra sweetener on top.
Explain it to a Grade 8: the company promised a dividend on the last day of the year but only paid it three weeks later. Why is that promise already a debt on the Balance Sheet?
Once declared, the dividend is owed to the shareholdersThe learner must see that a declaration creates an obligation; the money is no longer the company's to spend.
The Balance Sheet is a photo of one day, and the declaration happened on that dayTiming is the whole point: the obligation belongs to the year in which it was declared, whatever day the cash actually moves.
The moment the directors declare a dividend, the company owes that money to every shareholder. It is like promising your friend R50 on Friday: even though you only hand it over on Monday, from Friday onwards you owe it, and you cannot spend that R50 on something else.The Balance Sheet is a photo of what the company owns and owes on one exact day, the last day of the year. The dividend was declared on that day, so the promise already exists in the photo, and it is shown as a current liability called Shareholders for dividends. The cash leaving three weeks later is a separate, later event; the debt was created when the dividend was declared, not when the money moved.
Explain it to a Grade 8: what is the "carrying value" of a delivery van in the Tangible Assets note, and why is it lower than what the company paid for it?
Every year a slice of the cost is used up as depreciationDepreciation is the reason the number falls; without it the learner cannot explain why cost and carrying value differ.
Carrying value is cost minus the used-up total, the value still left on the booksCarrying value is a subtraction: what remains of the cost after the used-up slices are removed.
When the company buys a delivery van for R300 000, it does not treat the whole R300 000 as a cost on day one, because the van will be useful for years. Instead, every year a slice of the price, called depreciation, is treated as used up, because the van is getting older and wearing out. All those slices added together are the accumulated depreciation.The carrying value is what is left after you subtract that used-up total from the original cost. If R120 000 has been written off so far, the carrying value is R300 000 minus R120 000 = R180 000. It is lower than the price paid because part of the van's usefulness has already been spent, and the note simply shows the value still left on the books for the years to come.
Explain it to a Grade 8: a company owes the bank R900 000 on a loan it will pay off over many years. Why does the Balance Sheet split that one loan into two different places?
The slice due within 12 months becomes a current liabilityThe split is driven by timing: whatever must be paid within a year sits with the short-term debts.
The rest stays long-term so readers can see what is due soon versus laterThe purpose of the split is what the reader learns from it: how much pressure the company faces this year versus in the distant future.
A loan that takes many years to repay is not all due at once. The slice that must be paid within the next 12 months is a bill that is coming very soon, so the Balance Sheet moves that slice into current liabilities, next to the other short-term debts like creditors and the overdraft. If R120 000 of the R900 000 is due this coming year, that R120 000 is the current portion.The rest, R780 000, is still a long-term loan and stays under non-current liabilities because it can wait for later years. Splitting it lets anyone reading the statement see how much cash the company must find soon versus how much is far off, which is exactly what the current ratio tests: can the business pay what is due this year?
ONE-MINUTE SUMMARY
Adjust the draft profit for each item, plus or minus with a reason, apply income tax at 27%, and carry net profit after tax into the Retained Income note. Share capital rises with a new issue and falls on a buy-back at the average price, while the premium paid above that average reduces retained income, never share capital. Closing retained income is opening plus after-tax profit, less dividends and any buy-back premium. Shareholders' equity is share capital plus retained income, and it must close the accounting equation: total assets equals equity plus liabilities. Show every working, most marks here are method marks.
IN THE EXAM
Correct the profit first, then tax it, then feed the after-tax figure into Retained Income, in that exact order.
Remove repurchased shares at the average price, and send only the premium above average to Retained Income.
Use the year-end share count for the final dividend, and show it again as Shareholders for dividends.
When a figure is blank, reach for a financial indicator or the accounting equation to back it out.
Strike out each figure as you use it so you never reuse the same amount in two notes.
🔒 P1: CASH FLOW
🔒 P1: ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION
🔒 P1: CORP. GOVERNANCE & ETHICS
🔒 P2: RECONCILIATIONS & CONTROL
🔒 P2: COST ACCOUNTING
🔒 P2: BUDGETING
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