Accounting and Finance Questions

Repo Rate is the rate at which the commercial banks borrows money from the central bank of a country i.e, RBI in India.

Reverse Repo Rate is the rate at which the central bank of a country, in case of India it is RBI borrows money from the commercial banks in the country.

Compounding interest means interest accrues on the interest charged and the principal amount each period the interest is charged.

Compound interest is calculated by multiplying the principal amount by one plus the annual interest rate raised to the number of compound periods minus one.The total initial amount of the loan is then subtracted from the resulting value.

The formula for calculating compound interest is:

[P (1 + i)n] – P

= P [(1 + i)n – 1]

(Where P = Principal, i = nominal annual interest rate in percentage terms, and n = number of compounding periods.)

Take a three-year loan of Rs. 10,000 at an interest rate of 5% that compounds annually. What would be the amount of interest? In this case, it would be:

Rs. 10,000 [(1 + 0.05)3] – 1

= 10,000 [1.157625 – 1]

= Rs. 1,576.25.

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Asset means anything that can be converted into cash. Here in banks, the loans disbursed by Bank to its customers is considered as assets because when they are cleared by them, then they are directly converted to cash.

Smart money is a term used for credit card.

A payroll journal is like a payroll register. It has salary, bonuses, commission in other words earnings, any deductions such as 401k, fsa etc, state and income taxes etc.
It shows the gross salary less any deductions "Net pay" for the period.

Depreciation is a process of cost allocation, not valuation. In accounting, the term depreciation refers to the allocation of cost of a tangible asset to expense to the periods in which the asset is expected to be used to obtain the economic benefit.

In brief, Depreciation is fall in the value of assets due to wear and tear over a period of time, it is a loss.

A savings vehicle is a bank account that's used to hold your savings.

The basic saving vehicles include :

Savings accounts,

Money market accounts,

Certificates of deposit, and

Stock market.