Accounts of clubs and societies are for non-profit-making organisations that serve their members.
They prepare a receipts and payments account (a summary of cash), an income and expenditure account (like an income statement), and a statement of financial position. The surplus of income over expenditure is called a surplus (not profit); the shortfall is a deficit. Main income is usually subscriptions.
Remember
- Surplus (not profit) = income over expenditure; deficit = the opposite.
- Subscriptions are the main source of income.