RESERVE
MEANING OF RESERVE The entire amount of profit earned is not distributed to the owners. A portion is retain in the the business for known or unknown emergence, contingencies,liabilities etc.Thus ,a reserve means an amount of profit set aside until it is needed for some particular purpose. Generally Reserve Account is specially named to indicate its purpose It is an appropriation of profit and not a charge against profits. It is merely a part of net worth. Normally a reserve rise from retention of profit (i.e. amount set aside from profits),capital profit (i.e. profit on sale of the balance sheet. The companies Act,1956, gives a negative definition of 'reserve'. Account to the Act the term 'reserve' shall not include "any amount of written off or retained by way of providing for depreciation, renewals, or diminution in the value of assets or retained by the way of providing for any known liability". Thus, a reserve is an allocation of ascertain pr...