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What is cash withdrawn for personal use accounting equation?

What is cash withdrawn for personal use accounting equation?
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    1. AbhishekBatabyal Helpful Pursuing CA, BCOM (HONS)
      2022-07-26T14:54:35+00:00Added an answer on July 26, 2022 at 2:54 pm
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      Introduction

      Often cash is withdrawn by the owner or proprietor of a business for his or her personal use. Such withdrawal of cash is an outflow of capital from business and it is known as drawings.

      The accounting treatment of cash withdrawn for personal use is expressed in the accounting equation as shown in the example below:

      It is shown as a negative figure under both assets and capital heading. I will be explaining why it is so.

      Accounting Equation

      The accounting equation represents the relationship between assets, liabilities, and capital of an entity whether profit oriented or not, according to which, the total assets of a business equals to the sum of its total capital and total liabilities.

      Assets = Liabilities + Capital

      This equation holds good in every monetary transaction or event like the event given in the question.

      Cash withdrawn for personal use

      We know every transaction affects two accounts. In this case, too, the ‘cash withdrawn for personal use’ affects two accounts. Cash withdrawn for personal use is known as drawings.

      Let’s see the journal entry for drawings of cash from business:


      Here the drawing account is debited because it is a contra-equity account i.e. it is a mirror image of the capital account or opposite of the capital account. Here the cash account is an asset account; hence it is credited as it is reduced.

      As drawings represent the outflow of capital from the business, it is written off from the Capital account in the balance sheet.

      Hence, in the accounting equation, the drawing amount is deducted from the Asset side and from the capital side, indicating a balance.

      It does not appear in the statement of profit or loss despite having a debit balance because it is not an expense account.

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