a) The IASB Conceptual Framework describes the fundamental qualitative characteristics of useful financial information.

Required:
State and explain the TWO (2) fundamental qualitative characteristics. (10 marks)

b) Kofi Mensah started a furniture business on January 1, 2018, and undertook the following transactions during the year:

  • On 1/1/18, he paid GH¢150,000 into the business.
  • On 4/1/18, he borrowed GH¢150,000 from Ama.
  • He paid GH¢200,000 on 6/1/18 for one room to be used as a small shop for his furniture business.
  • Kofi Mensah bought furniture costing GH¢80,000 on 8/1/18, which he plans to sell.
  • On 10/1/18, he bought furniture for resale from Kwame for GH¢150,000 agreeing to pay for them within 15 days.
  • Kofi Mensah sold furniture which had cost GH¢60,000 for GH¢90,000 on 12/1/18.
  • Furniture worth GH¢110,000 was sold for GH¢180,000 to AA Ltd on credit on 20/1/18.
  • On 24/1/18 Kwame was paid GH¢90,000.
  • On 28/1/18 AA Ltd paid GH¢80,000 of the amount he owed.

Note: All monies paid and received were through the bank account.

Required:
Post the above transactions to the following ledgers in the books of Kofi Mensah:
i) Bank account (3 marks)
ii) Inventory account (2 marks)
iii) Capital account (1 mark)
iv) Kwame account (2 marks)
v) AA Ltd account (2 marks)

a) Fundamental Qualitative Characteristics

Relevance:
Information must be relevant to the decision-making needs of users. Information is relevant if it can be used for predictive and/or confirmatory purposes. It has predictive value if it helps users to predict what might happen in the future and confirmatory value if it helps users confirm past predictions. Only information that is material can be relevant.
(4 marks)

Faithful Representation:
To be useful, financial information must not only represent relevant phenomena, but it must also faithfully represent the phenomena that it purports to represent in both words and numbers. A perfectly faithful representation would be complete, neutral, and free from error.
(4 marks)

b) Ledger Postings

i) Bank Account

iii) Capital Account