Financial Past Questions And Answers
It is the tradition of the club to write off an amount equal to 25% of the subscriptions received as other expenses.
What is the amount to be written off as other expenses?

- A. N4500
- B. N6000
- C. N4000
- D. N5000
What is the net profit made by department S?

- A. N3,600
- B. N,3000
- C. N2,400
- D. N2,000
Miscellaneous expense is 10% of revenue Calculate the net income.

- A. N583,000
- B. N563,000
- C. N483,000
- D. N581,000
Given:
Ordinary share dividend ₦100,000, General reserve ₦4,100, Net profit b/d ₦27,370, corporation tax ₦2,500, Profit and loss ₦28,200, Interim ordinary dividend ₦4,050, Goodwill 20,50 provide for preference Dividend ₦2100 and Final ordinary Dividend of 5% and also write off Goodwill at ₦1500.
The retained profit in the Appropriation account is
- A. ₦55,570
- B. ₦36,320
- C. ₦50,000
- D. ₦30,000
Use the information below to answer questions
........................1/7/2005............30/6/2006
Drawings.....................................N3 000
Capital.................25 000...............N42 500
Furniture...............6 500...............N10 200
Additional capital during the year amounts to 300% of the drawings.
What is the amount of the additional capital?
- A. N900
- B. N900 000
- C. N90 000
- D. N9 000
The concept which states that revenue should be recognized at the point when the sale is deemed to have been made is
- A. matching
- B. consistency
- C. realization
- D. going concern
The concept which underlines double entry bookkeeping is
- A. money measurement concept
- B. historical cost concept
- C. accrual concept
- D. duality concept
a. The following is the trial balance of Abete Trading Company as at 31st December 2020:
| Le | Le | |
Depreciation of fixed assets | 9,260 | |
Stock as 1st January 2020 | 3,600 | |
Purchases and sales | 100,000 | 174,000 |
General expenses | 170,00 | |
Fixed assets | 42,600 | |
Returns | 2,400 | 4,800 |
Discounts | 400 | 2,000 |
Salaries and wages | 21,000 | |
| Suspense account | 3,060 | |
| 190,060 | 190,060 |
Additional information
(i) Stock in hand on 31st December 2020 was Le 4,000
(ii) Investigation revealed the following errors which necessitated the opening of suspense account:
- Drawings of Le 1,000 was posted to salaries and wages account
- Furniture bought at Le 1,560 was wrongly debited to fixed asset as Le 300
- Purchases day book was undercast by Le 2,000
- Discount allowed of Le 200 to a customer had not been posted to the customer's account
(iii) Depreciation of fixed assets is 10% per annum.
You are required to:
Correct the errors through journal entries (no narration is required).
b. The following is the trial balance of Abete Trading Company as at 31st December 2020:
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2023 THEORYA trail balance is usually prepared by an accountant from account balances in the ledger for the purpose of
- A. classifying accounts in the ledger
- B. testing arithmetical accuracies of the ledger account balances
- C. identifying the balance sheet items
- D. providing a basis for establishing the accountant's competence
Goods worth N300 was transferred from department Q to P Similarly, P's total expenses for the period was N200
Department P's net profit was

- A. N5 200
- B. N3000
- C. N2800
- D. N2 500

