Accounting and Finance Questions

Bank Rate is the interest rate at which the RBI allows finance to commercial banks. By Bank Rate, we mean bank can regulate the level of economic activity.

Yield to maturity is a concept for fixed rate bonds and is the internal rate of return i.e. the rate at which future flows are discounted on a compound basis to give the present value of the bond including accrued interest.

You should have recorded in your cash books all amounts you?ve actually received and payments you?ve actually made. However, the cash books may be incomplete as your bank may have put extra transactions through your account, such as:

bank fees or interest charges
direct debits (payments) and direct credits (receipts).
Doing a regular bank reconciliation will allow you to:

take into account any extra transactions your bank puts through your account, and
check and record any errors or omissions.
By regularly doing a bank reconciliation (say monthly) you can be more confident that your records contain all the information you need to prepare your income tax return and activity statements.

reconciliation- This is a statement prepared to find the reason for difference in any two balance.
eg 1)bank reconciliation is prepared to find the reason of difference between the passbook & cash book balance
2)Stock reconciliation is prepared to the reason of difference between the physical balance & book balance or to find the stock balance as on certain date.
etc

Managerial Accounting is also called as Management accounting or Cost accounting. It is the process of identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating information to managers of an organization. Then that managers use the provisions of accounting information in order to better inform themselves before they decide matters within their organizations, which aids their management and performance of control functions.

The United States Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a refundable tax credit, that helps low and medium - income individuals and couples, primarily for those who have qualifying children. 

Capital Gains Tax on Property:

1. Short term,

2. Long term

Short Term Capital Gain on property is considered as a gain from selling a property which was held by you for less than 36 months. As a taxpayer, you are liable to pay tax on short term capital gain on property as per your applicable marginal income tax slab.

* Current Short Term Capital Gains tax rate is 30%.

Long Term Capital Gain

When you sell your property that is owned by you for more than three years, any gain arising from such sale will be considered as long term capital gain. Long term capital gain is calculated as the difference between net sales consideration and indexed cost of property.

* Current Long Term Capital Gains tax rate is 20%.