Preliminary expenses which we paid incorporate the company.
that expenses shall be transfered to profit & loss a/c.for
some years.so it will be in current asset.
Preliminary expeneses are the nature of fictitious assets.
These are the formation expenses of the company before any
operation of the busines held. These are transferred to
the profit and loss accounts and written off every year
from the profits of the business. These expenses are shown
on the assets of the balance sheet under the head
misceallenous.
Expenses incurred before the commencement of the business
are prelimary expenses and same will be deferred over the
period will be shown under Assets side of balance sheet as
Miscellaneous Expenses (Asset).
All expenses incurred before incorporation of the business
is called preliminary expenses.It is show in the assets
side of the balance sheet under the miscellaneous expenses.
Annual accounts of a limited company are filed with the
registrar of companies and may be inspected by the public.
There "published accounts" must comply with certain
requirements, some of which are statutory and some of which
are non-statutory.
Thus, Preliminary expenses are revenue for the business and
is recorded in the liabilites of the balance sheet.
Preliminary Expenses is the expenses incurred before the
commencement of the company that beared by the promoters of
the company for its incorporation. As it is considered as
one of the fictitious asset of the company and is treated
as deffered revenue expenditure because it derives benefits
in the long run and thus written off every year on the
asset side of the balance sheet
Those expenses which are incurred before incorporation of
the business are called preliminary expenses. It is shown in
Asset side of balance sheet. It is current Asset.
preliminary expenses are the expenses which accure at the
time of starting of the business as registration fees.
basically it is amortize as per decided time by the company
and at the time when the expense accure it will treate as
current asset.
in simple words espenditure which accure at the time of
formation of company . it shown in assets sides under
misscellaneous head in balance sheet & cr. side of p&l
Expenses incurred prior to the incorporation of a company
are called preliminary expenses. They are ficticious
assets appearing on the ASSETS side of the Balance Sheet.
Every year a protion of them are written off from the
profit and in the Balance Sheet the total amount of
preliminary expenses is reduced by the amount of expenses
written off.
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for creating provision and then writting off debtors
Calculate the profit/loss on sale of the following assets
as on 30th september 2000
cost of the asset on 01.05.95 50000/-
Salvage Value 5000/-
Method of depriciation & date WDV 15%
sales of asset on 30.09.2000 Rs 25000/-