ACCT 301 Lecture : chapter 8.docx

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Well, what should strike you whilst taking a look at the previous profit and loss account statements is the use of ordinary activities". The reason simply being is that if there exists a profit on ordinary activities, there may be profits or losses on not so ordinary activities". Well frs 3 states that there are two types of out of the ordinary items", which are: exceptional items, extraordinary items. Basically exceptional items are those items that occur during the ordinary course of the business but need to be disclosed due to their size or incidence. E. g. a main customer goes bankrupt, which may increase our bad debts by 50%. This event is ordinary in that, many of our debtors" accounts return unpaid, which is why we create a bad debts provision. Yet, this event is classified as an exceptional item because of its shier size.

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