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Preparation from a trial balance

Unit 13: Cash Flow StatementTopic 2 of 3
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What the syllabus expects

  • Cash-flow statement using one year's trial balance

Preparation from a trial balance

Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — First Year

Subject: Financial Accounting and Analysis (MGT 211)

Unit 13: Cash Flow Statement

Academic Year: 2083/84

Topic Objectives

After studying this topic, students should be able to:

  • Explain the scope and key elements of preparation from a trial balance.
  • Identify the accounting treatment, prepare relevant records or calculations and interpret their financial effects.

Curriculum Scope

  • Cash-flow statement using one year's trial balance

Detailed Microsyllabus

  1. Trial-balance approach

    1. Identify information in the one-year trial balance.
    2. Use supplied adjustments and additional details.
    3. Classify cash receipts and payments.
  2. Preparation

    1. Calculate flows by activity.
    2. Reconcile the change in cash.
    3. Identify gaps that a trial balance alone cannot resolve.

Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, BBS curriculum with first-year syllabus, PDF pages 20-22.

Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit lecture hours apply to the whole unit; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here.