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SS1 Third Term Financial Accounting Lesson Note – Departmental Account

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WEEK 6

DEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNT

Content:

  • Introduction to department account: meaning, needs, basis of apportionment
  • Preparation of Departmental account and inter-departmental transfer

These are accounts relating to the departments or division of a business which desire to have a separate result of each department to ascertain the strength or weakness of individual departments.

ADVANTAGES OF DEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNT

NEEDS AND PURPOSES OF DEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNT:

  • To determine the trading result of each departments.
  • To compare the performance of each department to identify the weak and strong division.
  • To help the proprietor formulate policy
  • It is easier to separate the operation because it shows which department has most profit
  • Errors can be easily detected.
  • Helps to reward or reprimand departmental manager based on result.
  • To ascertain the contributions of each department to the overall profit or loss
  • Provide information for the remuneration of the departmental manager based on result
  • Help in monitoring the progress of each department
  • Gross profit of each department can easily be obtained

ALLOCATION OF EXPENSES:

  1. Expenses incurred for one department: Any expense specifically incurred on behalf of department will be charged to that particular department
  2. Expenses incurred on behalf of all the departments: Any expenses incurred for the benefit of all department not capable of precise allocation will be treated with any of these Methods/Bases:
  3. Turnover basis
  4. Floor area
  5. Equality basis
  6. Average stock held

TABLE OF APPORTIONMENT/ALLOCATION

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