Financial Past Questions And Answers

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281

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2002
282

What is the net profit made by department S?

  • A. N3,600
  • B. N,3000
  • C. N2,400
  • D. N2,000
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2004
283

Miscellaneous expense is 10% of revenue Calculate the net income.

  • A. N583,000
  • B. N563,000
  • C. N483,000
  • D. N581,000
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2002
284

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2019
285

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2007
286

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2014
287

The concept which underlines double entry bookkeeping is

  • A. money measurement concept
  • B. historical cost concept
  • C. accrual concept
  • D. duality concept
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2023 OBJ
288

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 account3,060
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 THEORY
289

A 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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 1995
290

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
View Discussion (0)JAMB 2008