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Unit 4
Unit 4
1. Excessive Inventory
2. Excessive Debtors
3. Adverse Effect on Profitability
4. Inefficiency of Management
Disadvantages of Inadequate Working
Capital
1. Difficulty in Availability of Raw-Materials
2. Full Utilization of Fixed Assets not Possible
3. Difficulty in the Maintenance of Machinery
4. Decrease in Credit Rating
5. Non-Utilization of Favourable Opportunities
6. Decrease in Sales
7. Difficulty in the Distribution of Dividends
8. Decrease in the Efficiency of Management
Working Capital Cycle
Debtors & Bills Sales
Receivables
Sales Finished
Products
Debtors
In case of financial
concerns, the operating
Cash Debtors cycle will be
DETERMINANTS OF WORKING CAPITAL
• Internal Factors
1. Nature and size of business
2. Firm's production policy
3. Firm's credit policy
4. Availability of credit
5. Growth and expansion of business
6. Profit margin and dividend policy
7. Operating efficiency of the firm
8. Co-ordinating activities in firm
DETERMINANTS OF WORKING CAPITAL
• External Factors
1. Business fluctuations
2. Changes in the technology
3. Import policy
4. Infrastructural facilities
5. Taxation policy
MEASURING OF WORKING CAPITAL
• Percent of sales method
• Regression Analysis method
• Operating Cycle method
SOURCE OF WORKING CAPITAL
• Loans from commercial bank
• Public deposit
• Trade credit
• Factoring
• Discounting, bill of Exchange
• Bank overdraft and cash credit
• Advance from customers
• Accrual accounts.
COSTING
• As compared to the financial accounting, the
focus of cost accounting in different. In the
modern days of cut throat competition, any
business organization has to pay attention
towards their cost of production.
• Computation of cost on scientific basis and
thereafter cost control and cost reduction is of
paramount important. Hence it has become
essential to study the basic principles and
concepts of cost accounting.
COST
• Cost can be defined as the expenditure (actual
or national) incurred on or attributable to a
given thing.
• It can also be described as the resources that
have been sacrificed or must be sacrificed to
attain a particular objective.
• In other words, cost is the amount of
resources used for something which must be
measured in terms of money.
COSTING DEFINITION
• Costing may be defined as the technique and
process of ascertaining costs;
• According to Wheldon, 'Costing is classifying
recording, allocation and appropriation of
expenses for the determination of cost of
products or services and for the presentation
of suitable arranged data for the purpose of
control and guidance of management.
COST ACCOUNTING
• Cost accounting primarily deals with collection,
analysis of relevant cost data for interpretation
and presentation for solving various problems of
management.
• Cost accounting accounts for the cost of
products, service or an operation. It is defined as,
the establishment of budgets, standard costs and
actual costs of operation, processes, activities or
products and the analysis of variances,
profitability or the social use of funds'.
CLASSIFICATION OF COSTS
• Classification according to elements
• According to nature
– Direct and Indirect Material
– Direct and Indirect Labour
– Direct and Indirect Expenses
• According to behaviour
– Fixed costs
– Variable costs
– Semi – variable costs
CLASSIFICATION OF COSTS
• According to functions
– Production costs
– Administrative costs
– Selling and Distribution costs
– Research & development costs
• According to time
– Historical costs
– Predetermined costs
CLASSIFICATION OF COSTS
• Costs for management decision making
– Marginal cost – Abnormal costs
– Differential cost – Controllable costs
– Opportunity cost – Shutdown costs
– Relevant costs – Capacity costs
– Replacement costs – Urgent costs
COSTING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
• It is necessary to understand the difference
between the costing methods and techniques.
Costing methods and technique costing
methods are those which help a firm to
compute the cost of production or services
offered by it.
• Methods of costing
– Job costing
– Batch costing
– Process costing
– Operating costing
– Contract costing
• Technique of costing
– Marginal costing
– Standard costing
– Budgets and Budgetary control
BREAK EVEN ANALYSIS
• A break-even analysis is a financial calculation
that weighs the costs of a new business,
service or product against the unit sell price
to determine the point at which you will
break even.
• In other words, it reveals the point at which
you will have sold enough units to cover all of
your costs.
BREAK EVEN POINT
• The break even point is a level of production
where the total costs are equal to the total
revenue, i.e., sales.
• Thus at the break-even level, there is neither
profit nor loss. Production level below the
break-even-point will result into loss while
production above break-even point will result
in profits.
MARGIN OF SAFETY
• Margin of safety is the difference between the
actual sales and the break-even sales. As we
have discussed, at the break even point there is
neither any profit nor loss.
• Hence any firm will always be interested in being
as much above the break even level as possible.
• Margin of safety explains precisely this thing and
the higher the safety margin the better it is.
Margin of safety is computed as follows.
Margin of safety= Actual sales -Break-even sales
TAXATION
• In most of the countries, the taxation policy
aims at the promotion of agriculture and
industry.
• Industrial development may, however, be
stimulated by means of a reduction in the
normally applicable tax liability in the form of
either an exemption from & income-tax on the
amount invested or a concession in the tax
rate.
TYPES OF TAXATION
• Direct Tax
– Income Tax
– Wealth Tax
– Profit and gains from Business or Profession
• Indirect Tax
– Excise Duty
– Sales Tax
Income Tax
• In India, tax was introduced for the first time in
1860 by Sin James Wilson in order to meet the
losses sustained by the government on account
of the military muting 1857.
• Over a period of time innumerable amendments
took place, In consultation with the ministry of
law finally the Income Tax Act 1961, was passed.
• The Income Tax Act, 1961 has been in force with
effect from 1st April 1962.
Income Tax
• Every person, whose taxable income for the previous
financial year exceeds the minimum taxable limit is
liable to the central government income tax during
the current financial year on the income of the
previous financial year at the rate in force during the
current financial year.
• Income less permissible expenses from all sources
(other than long-term capital gains) of each
taxpayers aggregated and subject to tax at a flat rate
in the case of companies and partnership firms and
at progressive rates in the case of other tax payers.
Basis of charges of Income Tax
• Income tax is an annual tax in income.
• Income of previous year is taxable in the next
following assessment year.
• Tax rate are fixed by the annual finance act.
• Tax changes on total income of every persons.
Income from salaries
• Salary includes the following amounts
received by an employee from his employer,
during the previous year.
✓ Wages
✓ Encashment of earned leave
✓ Any annuity or pension
✓ Provident fund
✓ Compensation for Retirement
Allowances
• As per Oxford dictionary the word allowance
means "any amount or sum allowed regularly"
as such allowances are given in cash along
with salary by the employer.
• It can be classified into three categories
(i) Fully Exempted Allowance
(ii) Fully Taxable Allowance
(iii) Partly Taxable Allowance
Provident Funds
• The employee contributes a fixed percentage
of his salary towards these funds and in many
cases employer also contributes the whole
contribution along with interest credited to
employees account.
• The employee may get the amount on the way
of loans on PF or at the time of retirement.
Kinds of Provident Funds
• Statutory Provident Fund
• Recognised Provident Fund
• Unrecognised Provident Fund
• Public Provident Fund
Deduction
• The deductions are
1. Standard Deduction
2. Entertainment Allowance
3. Tax on Employment
(Basic Salary + Allowances + Prerequisite's + Profit
in lieu of salary + Other forms of salary) –
(Deduction U/S 16 Standard deduction (16 i) +
Entertainment allowance (16 ii) + Tax on
employment (16 iii) ) = Income From Salary
Wealth Tax
• Annual value i.e. rent or revenue received
from any building or land which is attached to
the building (i.e. parking place, garden etc) of
which assessee is the owner and which is not
used for the purpose of assessee's own
business or profession is charged to tax under
income from house property.
Profits and Gains of Business / Profession
• Section 29 states that profits and gains of
business or profession chargeable to income tax,
shall be computed in accordance with the
provisions contained in section 30 to 43D.
• The following incomes shall be chargeable to
income - tax under the head "profits and gains of
business or profession".
– The profits and gains of any business which was
carried on by the assessee at any time during the
previous year.
– Income derived by a trade, professionals or similar
association from specific services performed for the
member.
Capital Gains
• The tax is to be levied on any profit or gain
occurring on the transfer of a capital assets. Capital
assets refer to property of any kind held by the
assessee.
• Some of the exception to capital assets.
• Any Stock in trade
• Gold deposit bonds issued under gold
scheme
• Special bearer bonds
• Any profit earned from the transfer of a capital
assets is called capital gain.
Other Sources
• The other source of income which are deducted to
income tax are
Casual Income
Insurance Commission
Family Pension
Interest on loan
Income from undisclosed source
Agricultural Income
Interest received on delayed refund
Indirect Tax
Excise Duties
• Excise duties may be defined as "a tax or duty
on home produced goods either at some stage
of production or before their sale to domestic
consumers.
• Excise duty is any duty or tax levied upon the
manufacturer sale or consumption of
commodities within the country.
KINDS OF EXCISE DUTIES
• The Central Excise and Salt Act 1944 which
deals with basis excise duties in a large
number of items. This is amended from time
to time by the Finance Act each year.
• The Additional Duties of Excise / Goods of
special Importance) Act 1957 and 1985. This
Act levies additional duties of excise in piece
of sales tax on sugar, tobacco and textile
imposed by some state Government.
KINDS OF EXCISE DUTIES
• The mineral oils (Additional Duties of Excise
and Customs) Act 1958. The Act levies
additional duties of excise on motor spirit,
kerosene, refined diesel oil, etc.
• Cess or excise duties levied on certain
commodities under special Acts like coal and
coke, iron ore, tea, etc.
Sales Tax
• Sales tax is an indirect tax. It is levied on purchase
and sale of goods in India.
• Sales tax is levied under authority of both central
legislation and state Governments i.e. Central sales
tax and local sales tax.
• Central sales tax is governed by the Central Sales
Tax Act 1956 which covers inter-state transactions
of sale of goods as well as transactions of sale of
goods as well as instruction of import of goods and
export of goods act of India.
Sales Tax
• The local sales tax is governed by the respective
state sales tax acts under which tax is levied on
Intra-state transaction of sales.
• Sales tax is payable by the seller to the
Government ordinarily. Sales tax is recovered from
the buyer as a part of consideration for sales of
goods.
• Sales tax constitutes major sources of tax revenue
to the State Governments, it is enforced in all the
state in India.
Sales Tax
• But in order to encourage proper growth of
small-scale industries, both Government i.e.
Central and State Government provides
various facilities like subsidy, concession or
exemption from tax etc.
TYPES OF SALES TAX
• Selective Sales Tax
Selective Sales Tax is imposed on the sale of a few
selected commodities singled out for the purpose
of taxation. Sale Tax is imposed on high priced and
luxury articles like television, motor vehicles etc.
• General Sales Tax
A general sales tax is imposed by the Government
on the sale of all commodities except those which
may be specially exempted by the Government.
Under the general sales tax, a common rate of tax
is applied on all taxable commodities.
TYPES OF SALES TAX
• Single point sales taxation
Single point sales tax means tax that is imposed at
only one point between production of goods and
their sales to a customer. Single point sales tax
may be imposed at two stages at first point or at
zonal point.
• Multiple Point Sales Taxation
Multiple point sales tax means that sales tax is
levied at all stages of the sales of a commodity i.e.
tax will be levied and collected, whenever goods
are sold or purchased at every point of sale.