Subjects:

Legal Manuals

Contents:

Basic principles.

Solicitors' books.

Final accounts.

Closing adjustments.

Partnership accounts.

Bank reconciliation.

Modern methods of keeping accounts.

Basic postings.

Transfers.

VAT.

Interest on clients' money.

Conveyancing.

Trusts.

Revision exercises.

This book explains the solicitors' accounts system in non-technical language, and includes numerous worked examples and self-test questions devised to help the reader become familiar with the techniques required. Tailored to help trainee solicitors studying for the accounts section of the Professional Skills Course, the text is designed as a workbook to be used during study, with carefully graded exercises complementing the discussion in the text.

It contains:-

• Basic accounting principles clearly set out, with worked examples
  
• Exercises (with answers) to test the grasp of instructions
  
• Past examination questions (adapted to take account of changes in conveyancing procedure, VAT regulations and the examination syllabus) complete with model answers to aid revision