Financial Past Questions And Answers
Use the information below to answer question
Debtors.................................N20
Provision for bad debts..................10%
Provision for discount on debtors........5%
Determine the amount provided for discount allowed on debtors?
- A. N1000
- B. N3000
- C. N900
- D. N1500
In which ways can a manager manipulate the financial statements? Options
- A) using asset values
- B) capitalizing costs that should be written off as expenses
- C) recording assets that are owned by the business
- D) massaging expenses
The gross profit on manufactured goods is the difference between the cost of goods manufactured and the
- A. market value of goods produced
- B. prime cost of production
- C. indirect cost of production
- D. goods produced
Which of the following errors will affect the trial balance total?
- A. omission of sales of ₦3000 and purchases of ₦2000
- B. Posting discount allowed to the debit side of discount allowed account
- C. omission of one account from the list when extracting the ledgers
- D. failure to post sales of ₦2000 and purchases of ₦2000
Keeping records under single entry system has the advantage of
- A. Quality in terms of records
- B. Simplicity in terms of operation
- C. Accuracy in terms of operation
- D. Completeness in terms of records
Impersonal account is subdivided into
- A. real and nominal accounts
- B. nominal and personal accounts
- C. real and current accounts
- D. personal and real accounts
\(\begin{array}{c|c} & \text{N} \\ \hline \text{Debtors opening} & 4000 \\ \hline \text{Debtors clsoing} & 1500 \\ \hline \text{Cash received from debtors} & 8500 \\ \hline \text{Bad debts written off} & 350 \\ \hline \text{Discount allowed} & 500 \\ \hline \text{Discount Received} & 1000\end{array}\)
What is the amount of sales of sales for the year?
- A. N3850
- B. N6650
- C. N1550
- D. N6850
The interest on partners' loans is?
- A. debited in current account
- B. credited in profit and loss account
- C. debited in profit and loss account
- D. credited in current account
A fire on 31 July destroyed some a company's inventory records. <br>The following information is available<br> Inventory 1 July: ?318,000<br> Sales for July: ?612,000<br> Purchase for July: ?412,000<br> Inventory in good condition at July, 2014: ?214,000<br> Standard gross profit percentage is sales is 25%.<br> Based on this information, what is the value of the inventory lost?
- A) ?96,000
- B) ?271,000
- C) ?26,400
- D) ?57,000
The total of the discounts received column in the cash book is posted to the?
- A. credit of the discounts received account
- B. debit of the discounts allowed account
- C. credit of the discounts allowed accoun
- D. debit of the discounts received account

