Financial Past Questions And Answers
From which of the following sources are creditors control account most likely to be posted?
- A. supplier's invoices
- B. cash disbursements journal
- C. subsidiary debtors ledger
- D. purchases journal
Given: 31/12/98 31/12/99
Assets: Plant and Mach. N1,500 N1,200
Fixtures N700 N520
Stock N500 N600
Debtors N900 N400
Cash N200 N300
Liabilities: Creditor N500 N600
Loan N600 N400
Determine the total fixed assets from the opening balance sheet?
- A. N2,200
- B. N2,020
- C. N1,720
- D. N2,070
The difference between book keeping and accounting is that while
- A. book keeping interprets data, accounting records it
- B. book keeping is regarded as the language of the business accounting ascertians its strength and weakness
- C. book keeping records data accounting interprets it
- D. book keeping summaries information accounting communicates it
Use the information below to answer this question
Date.............QTY. .....RATE........TOTAL
...............(Units).....N...........N
January 2nd.....500........25..........12500
March 7th.......250........28..........7000
Issues were made as follows:
Date............QTY. (uNITS)
January 9th .....200
February 14th ...200
March 11th ......200
The closing stock on March 11th by LIFO valuation is
- A. N4200
- B. N2700
- C. N4500
- D. N3900
Calculate the total purchase of a business from the given information, cash purchases 3000; payments to creditors 53,000; creditors at the beginning 4000; creditors at the end 2,000
- A. N52,000
- B. N51,000
- C. N55,000
- D. N50,000
The starting point for the production of accounts from incomplete records is to ______
- A) ascertain the total sales
- B) compute the opening stock of goods sold
- C) verify the total purchases
- D) prepare an opening statement of affairs
The formula for calculating depreciation using straight line method is
- A. \( \frac{\text{Scrape Value} + \text{Sales}}{Useful life} \)
- B. \( \frac{\text{Cost } - \text{Scrape Value}}{Useful life} \)
- C. \( \frac{\text{Sales } - \text{Scrape Value}}{Useful life} \)
- D. \( \frac{\text{Purchases } + \text{Sales }}{Useful life} \)
1/5/07 Purchased 100 bags of milk at #10.00k each 3/5/07 Purchased 60 bags of milk at #11.50k each 15/5/07 Issued 85 bags of milk 15/5/07 Purchased 180 bags of milk at #12.80K each 22/5/07 Issued 145 bags of milk. Using FIFO method, what would be the value of stock as at 9/5/07?
- A. #862.50
- B. #840.00
- C. #806.25
- D. #750.00
In the preparation of statement of profit, if the opening capital is greater than closing capital, there will be
- A. profit
- B. capital
- C. loss
- D. cash
Accounting information is used by investors and creditors of a company to predict
- A. potential merger candidates for the company
- B. appropriate remunerations for the company
- C. future cash flows of the company
- D. future tax payments of the company

