Financial Past Questions And Answers
Accounting equation is given by
- A) Assets
- B) Assets = Liabilities - Owner
- C) Assets + Owner
- D) Assets = Liabilities + Owner
Halidu and Hamed are business partners with N30,000 and N20,000 capital respectively. At the end of the financial year, a profit of N12,000, which included Halidu's salary of N3,000 was made. Halidu's share of the profit is
- A. N7,500
- B. N6,000
- C. N5,400
- D. N4,500
Which of the following concepts is expected to hold when a proprietor makes a drawing of goods or cash from the business?
- A) Business entity
- B) Realization
- C) Going concern
- D) Dual-aspect
Profit or loss in a partnership is usually arrived at after deducting from gross profit all expenses including?
- A. partners' salaries
- B. interest on capital
- C. partners' drawings
- D. interest on loans
In a partnership business, the net profit serves as opening figure for ______.
- A) trading account
- B) profit and loss account
- C) current account
- D) appropriation account
Given:
Stock (1/4/94) N800
Purchases of flour N2450
Sales N4745
Wages of bakery staff N675
Carriage outwards N50
Salary of administrative staff N225
Stock (31/3/95) N940
Capital N1540
Determine the cost of goods sold?
- A. N2575
- B. N2985
- C. N3250
- D. N3925
A typical example of a real account is?
- A. prepayment
- B. expenses
- C. plant
- D. income
The value of the owner's equity is

- A. N400,000
- B. N900,000
- C. N957,000
- D. N1,357,000
An entry in a subsidiary book which does not form part of the double entry system is a
- A. contra entry
- B. single entry
- C. journal entry
- D. memorandum entry
The process of bookkeeping includes records produced from?
- A. ledgers
- B. source documents
- C. minutes of meeting
- D. intuitive reasoning

