50 questions
______ is the discount given to the customers for prompt payment of their accounts
Discount allowed
Trade discount
Discount received
Legal tender
_______ is the discount received from suppliers for prompt payment of our accounts
Discount allowed
Discount received
Sales
Creditor
_____ is an extracted book of an account
Balance sheet
Bank reconciliation
Trial balance
Petty cash book
In trial balance all these are credited except (a) (b)
(c) (d)
Capital
Sales
Purchases
Creditors
All the following are reasons for disagreement between cash book and bank statement except
Standing order
Bank Errors
Bank charges
Overdraft
All the following are reasons why trial balance may not balance except
Error of posting
Errors in addition
Wrong figures in the ledger
Error of omission
_____ is a part of the profit distributable to shareholders of an organization
Premium
Dividend
Shares
Profit
_______ occurs when a creditor is authorized to ask payment from the customer’s bank
Discount
Standing order
Direct debit
Dishonoured cheque
The balance of the adjusted cash book is used in preparing ______
Trading account
Bank statement
Bank reconciliation statement
Trial balance
Trial balance is used to prepare _____
Control account
Bank statement
Cash book
Trading, profit and loss account
In petty cash book the credit side is for
Creditors
Debtors
Analysis columns
Payment
The debit side of petty cash book is for
Bank
Receipts
Debtors
Creditors
______ is the book of original or prime entry which is used for recording small disbursement or expenses (a) (b) (c) (d)
Cash book
Petty cash book
Trial balance
Bank statement
Liabilities of the petty cashier can never _____ the imprest amount
Exceed
Equal
Less to
Reach
Cash discount is classified into ______
4
3
2
1
Accounting equation can be expressed as
A= C + L
C= L –A
A= C – L
L= A+C
Which of the following is an asset?
Creditor
Loan
Cash in hand
Capital
What is liability when asset is N4000, and capital is N2000?
N6000
N1000
N20000
N2000
Bank statement is prepared by _____
Bank
Account holder
Cashier
Manager
All the following are added to balance as per bank statement except
Standing order
Bank charges
Uncredited cheque
Dividend
Motor van, building, furniture are examples of _____
Liabilities
Capital
Assets
Equity
______ is a book that combines cash, bank and discount accounts into a single book
Bank statement
Three column cash book
Petty cash book
Trial balance
______ is the properties or resources of a business organization
Assets
Capital
Long term
Liability
______ is the statement of the position of the business which shows the assets of a business and the sources of those assets
Balance sheet
Capital
Assets
Liabilities
Which of this column is not included in trial balance?
Folio
Particulars
Debit side
Credit side
All expenses must be recorded in _____ side of trial balance
Debit
Credit
Particular
Ledger
All the following are branches of accounting except
Balance sheet accounting
Cost accounting
Management accounting
Financial accounting
_____ are accounts in which income and expenditure are recorded
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Real account
Cost account
Nominal account
Personal account
All the following are examples of personal account except
Equipment
Creditor
Debtor
All of the above
Which of the following is not a source document?
Money
Invoice
Receipt
Credit note
Financial records keeping were believed to have begun at about _____ years BC
4000
150
400
2400
All the following are users of accounting information except
Shareholders
Management
Government
Debtors
_____ is the process of allocating the cost of the natural resources to the units removed
Appreciation
Depreciation
Depletion
Amortization
All the following are non manufacturing cost except
Selling expenses
Direct expenses
Distribution expenses
Administration expenses
Where there is no agreement, the partners are to share their profit
Equally
2:3
5%
50% each
______ is a document drawn up by the partners, which contains the rules and regulations guiding the business
Partnership
Account
Document
Deed of partnership
All the following are features of partnership account except
Balance sheet
Appropriation account
Current account
Debtors account
Which of the following is an evidence of payment
Invoice
Cheque
Receipt
Delivery note
The total cash and credit sales during a period is called
Turnover
Sales
Cost of goods sold
Carriage Inward
_____ is the cost of transportation charged on goods purchased
(a)
Carriage Outwards
Carriage Inwards
Returns Outwards
Returns Inwards
Stock of goods is divided into _______
3
10
4
2
Returns inwards is also known as ______
Purchases returns
Sales Returns
Carriage Inward
Carriage Outward
Purchases returns is also known as _______
Sales returns
Return outwards
Returns inwards
Discount allowed
Accrued income is added to ____ and it is treated as an ____
Income, asset
Income, liability
Income, expense
Expenses, asset
Prepaid expense is deducted from _____ and it is treated as ____
Asset, Liability
Income, asset
Expenses, asset
Expenses, income
The purpose of trading account is to ascertain ______
Gross profit
Gross loss
Gross profit/loss
Net profit/loss
The balance of trading account is transferred to _____
Balance sheet
Profit and loss account
Debtors account
Sales account
______ and _______ are the two methods of preparing trading, profit and loss account
Vertical and horizontal
Vertical and parallel
T and vertical
T and horizontal
_____ are goods or cash withdrawn by the owner of a business at interval for his own use
Contra entries
Capital
Income
Drawing
All the following accounts follow the principle of double entry except
Trading account
Balance sheet
Cash book
Sales account