Financial Past Questions And Answers
The document that is used to acknowledge the acceptance of the return of goods by the seller from the buyer is known as
- A) credit note
- B) Debit note
- C) invoice
- D) voucher
Provision for discount allowed can be recorded as debit to?
- A. the profit and loss account and a credit to provision for discount allowed
- B. provision for discount allowed and a credit to the profit and loss account
- C. discount allowed and a credit to the profit and loss account
- D. expenses and a credit to customers' account
Use the information below to answer question
Stock (1/1/02) at selling price..........N2000
Goods sent to branch (selling price).....N?
Sales by branch (selling price)..........N4500
Stock (31/12/02).........................N?
Opening stock is 1/4 of goods sent to branch.
The value of goods sent to branch is?
- A. N4 000
- B. N6 000
- C. N8 000
- D. N2 000
Use the information to answer question .
A piece of equipment costing N120,000 was purchased on 1/1/1996. Depreciation was provided at 20% per annum on a straight-line basis. it was sold on 30/6/1999 for N31,500.
The net book value of the piece of equipment at the time of sale was?
- A. N96 000
- B. N48 000
- C. N36 000
- D. N24 000
On January 1/2005, a machine was bought for N56,000 to last for five years with a residual value of N1000.
the rate of the yearly depreciation expense would be?
- A. 50%
- B. 40%
- C. 30%
- D. 20%
Didi Ltd offered 10,000 ordinary shares of N1.50 each at a discount of 2% which were fully subscribed. With regard to the offer above?
- A. shares are never offered at a discount; the offer is invalid
- B. the value of shares in the capital account will be lowered by 2%
- C. the company incurs a loss to the tune of 2% of the offer
- D. each of the subscribers loses 2% of investment
When goodwill is not retained in the business, the entries in the new partners books will be to debit______________
- A. Goodwill account and credit partners capital account
- B. Cash account and credit goodwill account
- C. Goodwill account and credit cash account
- D. Partners capital account and credit goodwill account
Why should a new partner contribute towards goodwill on his admission?
- A. It is a norm
- B. to ensure new partner also have a stake in the business
- C. the firm into which he is entering already has some goodwill in the market
- D. to purchase the business
Which of the following entries classes the owner’s drawing account ant the end of the period?
- A) A) Debit the drawing account, credit the owner's capital account
- B) Debit the income summary account credit the drawing account
- C) Debit the drawing account credit income summary accounting
- D) Debit the owner
Income and Expenditure account is the same as the --------- of a sole trader
- A. balance sheet
- B. trading account
- C. profit and loss account
- D. cash book

