CBSE Class 12-commerce Answered

• Life Membership Fee: It is not accounted as an income because a life member makes a one-time payment and avails life time services. Therefore, it is accounted as a Capital Receipt and added to Capital Fund on the liabilities side of the Balance Sheet.

• Entrance or Admission Fee: It is an amount that is paid by a person to become a member of a Not-for-Profit organisation. Since, it is received by the NPO from its potential members, it is treated as a revenue receipt which is shown on the credit side of the Income and Expenditure Account.

• Subscriptions:

                      i.        It is a source of income for an NPO.

                     ii.        It is paid by the members periodically which can be quarterly or half yearly so that their membership remains alive.

                    iii.        The total amount of subscription relating to the current year, whether received or not are to be shown on the credit side of the Income and Expenditure Account.