Financial Past Questions And Answers
Transfers from the head office to branches are best carried out at?
- A. cost price
- B. selling price
- C. cost plus mark-up
- D. market price
A powerful instrument of control over both the sales ledger and the clek whose duty is to post the ledger is the?
- A. total debtors account
- B. purchase day book
- C. sales day book
- D. cash book
The accounting entries to record a cheque issued by a business is to
- A. debit cash book and credit drawer
- B. credit cash book and debit drawer
- C. debit cash book and credit suspense account
- D. credit cash book and debit suspense account
A discount that is allowed to encourage a debtor to pay off his debt within a period is the
- A. annual discount
- B. trade discount
- C. periodic discount
- D. cash discount
A pension granted to any past president or vice-president shall be charged to the?
- A. consilidation revenue fund
- B. special pension fund
- C. contingency fund
- D. development fund
Eko Local Government expenditure Hospital building ---------------------- N200,000 Drugs ---------------------------------- N180,000 Hospital beds and mattresses ------------ N40,000 Doctors' and nurses' salaries ---------- N120,000 Administrative expenses ----------------- N50,000 Capital expenditure is
- A. N420,000
- B. N380,000
- C. N240,000
- D. N200,000
The issued capital of a company is
- A) Always the same as the authorized capital
- B) The same as preference share capital
- C) Equal to the reserves of the company
- D) None of the above
The objective of departmentalization is to
- A. ensure that departmental managers are adequately monitored
- B. record transactions for each department for better documentation
- C. tackle any recording problem as a result of expansion
- D. evaluate the profit of different departments
Use the information below to answer this question
The partnership agreement between Abba, Baba and Kaka contains the following provision:
(i) 5% interest to be paid on capital and no interest to be charged on drawings
(ii) Profits and losses to be shared in the ratio 3:2:1 respectively
(iii) net profit as at 31/12/95 N 2,250.
.................Abba......Baba.......Kake
Capital..........5000......4000......3000
Current account...250......100.......175
Salary............300......300.......---
Drawings..........600......500........250
Abba's capital balance at the end of the year will be
- A. N5475
- B. N5725
- C. N4400
- D. N5000
In dealing with incomplete record, fixed assets are posted to___________-
- A. Profit and loss account as brought forward figure
- B. Closing balance sheet as carried forward figure
- C. Closing balance sheet as brought forward figure
- D. Profit and loss as carried forward figure

