← 4.2 Effects of Business Transactions
Profit, loss and net worth
Business Studies · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Trading profit raises the owner's capital; a loss lowers it - the other way net worth moves besides drawings and extra capital.
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Assets, liabilities, capital and the accounting equation
- Preparing the statement of financial position
- Classifying assets
- Classifying liabilities and capital
- The double effect of every transaction
- Swapping one asset for another
- Transactions that raise both sides
- Transactions that lower both sides
- Drawings and capital introduced
- Profit, loss and net worth
- Tracing a day's transactions
- Preparing the statement after adjustments