Accounting and Finance Questions

Repo Rate is the rate at which the commercial banks borrows money from the central bank of a country i.e, RBI in India.

Reverse Repo Rate is the rate at which the central bank of a country, in case of India it is RBI borrows money from the commercial banks in the country.

The job cost sheets constitute the subsidiary ledger for the Work in Process Inventory Account.

A job cost sheet is a form used to record the costs chargeable to a specific job and to determine the total and unit costs of the completed job. Companies keep a separate job cost sheet for each job.

Assets minus liabilities equals Equity.

Compounding interest means interest accrues on the interest charged and the principal amount each period the interest is charged.

Compound interest is calculated by multiplying the principal amount by one plus the annual interest rate raised to the number of compound periods minus one.The total initial amount of the loan is then subtracted from the resulting value.

The formula for calculating compound interest is:

[P (1 + i)n] – P

= P [(1 + i)n – 1]

(Where P = Principal, i = nominal annual interest rate in percentage terms, and n = number of compounding periods.)

Take a three-year loan of Rs. 10,000 at an interest rate of 5% that compounds annually. What would be the amount of interest? In this case, it would be:

Rs. 10,000 [(1 + 0.05)3] – 1

= 10,000 [1.157625 – 1]

= Rs. 1,576.25.

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Intangible asset that consists of original creative work manifested in a tangible form that can be legally protected. Intellectual property consists of copyrights, patents, trade-marks and trade secrets. Examples include literary or artistic works, business methods and industrial processes.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are basic accounting principles and guidelines are concepts that govern the field of accounting.

Accounting principles and guidelines include :

* Business Entity Assumption

* Accounting Period

* Historical Cost Concept

* Full Disclosure Principle

* Cost Principle

* Matching Principle

* Materiality

* Monetary Unit Assumption.

In economy, the currency value depends on imports and exports, inflation, employment, interest rates, growth rate, trade deficit, performance of equity markets, foreign exchange reserves, macroeconomic policies, foreign investment inflows, banking capital, commodity prices.