Planning for Competitive Exams

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Planning for Competitive Exams

This SaralStudy commerce page helps students revise Planning for Competitive Exams. It is useful for school revision, accountancy practice, business studies preparation, economics concepts, and commerce vocabulary building.

How to study this commerce topic

  • Read the definition and purpose first.
  • Write formulas, formats, or key terms separately.
  • Practise one solved example and one unsolved question.
  • Connect the topic with real business, banking, accounting, or economics examples.

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Planning for Competitive Exams: Explanation, Formulae and Practice

Commerce topics should be revised with definitions, formats, entries and business examples. Write the rule first, then apply it to the transaction.

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Useful Rules

  • Accounting equation: assets = liabilities + capital.
  • Debit the receiver, credit the giver for personal accounts.
  • Debit what comes in, credit what goes out for real accounts.
  • Debit expenses and losses, credit incomes and gains for nominal accounts.

Solved Example

Question: A business starts with capital of Rs. 50,000 in cash. Show the accounting equation.

Working: Cash increases by Rs. 50,000 and capital increases by Rs. 50,000.

Result: Assets Rs. 50,000 = Capital Rs. 50,000.

Unanswered Practice Questions

Try these yourself before checking notes or calculators.

  1. Classify cash, rent and capital as account types.
  2. Pass a journal entry for cash purchases of Rs. 2,000.
  3. Write the accounting equation after buying goods on credit.

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