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Concept Introduction:
The Balance sheet is a summary of Assets, Liabilities and equity accounts that reports the financial position of the business as on a specific date. Assets are further classifies into Current Assets, Long Term Investments, Plant Assets and Intangible assets. And Liabilities are further classified into Current Liabilities and Long term liabilities.
Requirement-1:
To Indicate:
If it is permissible to record additional
Concept Introduction:
The Balance sheet is a summary of Assets, Liabilities and equity accounts that reports the financial position of the business as on a specific date. Assets are further classifies into Current Assets, Long Term Investments, Plant Assets and Intangible assets. And Liabilities are further classified into Current Liabilities and Long term liabilities.
Requirement-1:
To Indicate:
If it is permissible to record additional depreciation if the asset is useful
Concept Introduction:
The Balance sheet is a summary of Assets, Liabilities and equity accounts that reports the financial position of the business as on a specific date. Assets are further classifies into Current Assets, Long Term Investments, Plant Assets and Intangible assets. And Liabilities are further classified into Current Liabilities and Long term liabilities.
Requirement-2:
To Indicate:
The time when the cost and the
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