Africa Traders is a registered VAT vendor that buys and sells furniture. The business makes use
of the periodic inventory system. Use the following information from the accounting records of
Africa Traders to calculate the cost of sales on 28 February 2021:
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Inventory (1 March 2020) 159 824
Sales 747 230
Purchases 588 320
Settlement discount received 6 730
Settlement discount granted 4 975
A physical inventory count on 28 February 2021 indicated that the inventory on hand amounted
to R235 770.
NB: Instructions
1. Do not type the amount with any spaces as separators for thousands (eg: 12141.72)
2. Use a full stop to indicate any decimals (eg: 1000.01)
3. You must enter cents even if it is 0 (eg .00)
4. Only show the amount, do not show the R (eg: 12141.72)
Zack’s Hardware, a registered VAT vendor, makes use of the perpetual inventory system. The
VAT rate is 15%.
The following is an extract from the financial records of Zack’s Hardware for January 2023:
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Trade payables: opening balance (1 January) 16 245
Total purchases for January 2023 180 886
Cash payments journal: Trade payables column total (31 21 300
January)
Purchases returns journal: Trade payables column (31 4 230
January)
On month end, the auditors completed a creditors reconciliation and found the following:
1. 25% of total purchases were done on credit.
2. The trade payables column in the cash payments journal were overcast by R1 160.
3. On 10 January, Mr Zack returned goods sold to him on credit to the amount of R1 028.
This transaction was incorrectly recorded in the Purchases returns journal instead of the
Sales returns journal.
Required:
Complete the trade payables account in the general ledger of Zack’s Hardware for the month
ending 31 January 2023.
Instructions:
1. Use a full stop to indicate any decimals (eg: 1000.01)
2. Round off to the second decimal after the full stop (eg: 50.56)
3. If no amount should be recorded in any of the numeric spaces, please indicate it by filling
in a zero ("0")
Dr Trade Payables B1
2023 R 2023 R
Jan 1 Balance b/d Jan 1 Balance b/d
0 16245
31 31
Bank CPJ1 20140 Purchases and VAT PJ1 45221.50
Africa Traders is not a registered VAT vendor and buys and sells furniture. Africa Traders sold a
dining room table for R10 800. The mark-up percentage on cost is 30%.
What is the cost price of the product?
NB: Instructions
1. Do not type the amount with any spaces as separators for thousands (eg: 12141.72)
2. Use a full stop to indicate any decimals (eg: 1000.01)
3. You must enter cents even if it is 0 (eg .00)
4. Only show the amount, do not show the R (eg: 12141.72)
Answer: 8307.69
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Africa Traders, a registered VAT vendor, buys and sells hand sanitisers. The VAT rate is 15%. All
goods are sold at a constant mark-up of 25% and the entity uses the periodic inventory system.
On 3 March 2023, Africa Traders sold goods for R7 575 (VAT exclusive) on credit to Mr
Chiloane.
Required:
Record the above transaction in the applicable subsidiary journal of Africa Traders.
Instructions for numeric responses:
1. Use a full stop to indicate any decimals (eg: 1000.01)
2. Round off to the second decimal after the full stop (eg: 50.56)
3. If no amount should be recorded in any of the numeric spaces, please indicate it by filling in
a zero ("0")
Africa Traders
Sales journal – March 2023
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