Accounting For Hire Purchase In The Purchaser’s Book

This article deals the Accounting treatment of Hire Purchase Agreement of Purchaser:

In the Purchaser’s Books

Goods on hire purchase are treated as Assets upon receipt. The cash price is recorded as Cost of Assets re:Fixed Assets and The interests on hire purchase are charge to the Profit &Loss account as revenue [...]

Hire Purchase,Credit Sales And Rental Agreement

This article deals with the features of Hire Purchase and the differentiation between Hire Purchase,Credit Sale and Rental Agreement:-

Features of Hire Purchase

When goods are purchased under a Hire Purchase Agreement:

Vendor of the goods leases the asset to the purchaser on the terms that the purchaser shall pay to the [...]

Short Term Decision Making-Special Order(Part5)

Sometimes,when a company has spare production capacity,it is willing to fulfill SPECIAL ORDERS for non-regular customers. Normally,the prices quoted are lower than those regular customers.

So when do a Company Accept or Reject a Special Order?

Generally,the rule is to accept the [...]

Short Term Decision Making:Make Or Buy (Part4)

At times,management needs to decide whether to manufacture the product or to buy the ready made from other companies.

The following are some reasons to buy from other companies:

Flexibility to meet urgent demand of customers;Overcome limiting factor problem ( Part 3);Concentrate on its [...]

Short Term Decision-Limiting Factor(Part3)

As a result of limited supply of resources constraint,a company normally cannot produces as many products as it wish.

The limited supply of resources can be in many forms like limited cash,labor time,material/machine availability and others.

In line with the limited resources,the production manager therefore needs to plan [...]