Financial Past Questions And Answers
Subscription in arrears are
- A) credited to the income and expenditure account and shown as a liability in the balance sheet
- B) debited to the income and expenditure account and shown as an asset in the balance sheet
- C) credited to the income and expenditure account and shown as an asset in the balance sheet
- D) debited to the income and expenditure account and shown as a liability in the balance sheet
When is a petty cash account debited?
- A. When the fund is established and every time money is spent
- B. When the fund is established and every time it is replenished
- C. When the fund is established and when the size of the float is decreased
- D. Every time money is drawn from the petty cash
Given:
I. Cash refunds
II. Debit note issued
III. Dishonored cheque
IV. Purchases
The item on the credit side of purchases ledger control account includes
- A. I,II and III only
- B. I and II only
- C. III and IV only
- D. I, III and IV only
Which of the following is a correct expression of the accounting equation?
- A) Assets
- B) Assets = Liabilities - Owner
- C) Assets + Owners
- D) Assets = Liabilities - Owner
A company’s profit and loss account for a period is prepared by
- A) deducting total expenses from total revenues
- B) deducting total cash payments from total revenue
- C) deducting all outflows of funds from all inwards of funds
- D) balancing its receipts and payments
A rapidly growing business organization with multiple units that is interested in comparing the performances and weaknesses of each unit should adopt?
- A. manufacturing accounts
- B. consolidated accounts
- C. departmental accounts
- D. joint venture accounts
In government accounting , the method used which records on the basis of financial entity with self balancing books instead of entity of propietorship is?
- A. virement
- B. fund accounting
- C. consolidated fund
- D. financial regulation
In a departmental accounting system, which of the following expenses will most likely be apportioned on the basis of turnover?
- A. carriage outwards
- B. carriage inwards
- C. discounts received
- D. returns outwards
A fixed cost is fixed only in relation to?
- A. the quality of goods produced
- B. the quantity of goods sold
- C. a given period of time and a range of activities
- D. a given period of time and the nature of activity
Interest on a partner's drawings is debited to the
- A) partner's current account and credited to the profit and loss appropriate account
- B) profit and loss appropriation account and credited to the partner's current account
- C) profit and loss account and credited to the partner's account
- D) partner's current account and credited to the profit and loss account

