Jamb 1999 Financial Past Questions And Answers
Dele and Seun who are in partnership, have decided to covert their business into a limited liability company where both become directors. To convert the business?
- A. they will simply continue since there are no new members
- B. the partnership is formally ended and new company books opened
- C. the shares and all other items will be shared equally and not in their former ratios
- D. computation of goodwill must be done as it is legally required
Capital and revenue expenditures of government are usually accounted for under funds which include?
- A. A personal advances, technical, special trust
- B. technical, special trusth and commercial funds
- C. personal advances, treasury clearance and special trusth funds
- D. commercial loans and treasury clearance funds
If a sole proprietorship is purchased for cash, then?
- A. the purchaser debits his business purchase account with the consideration he pays
- B. all assets and liabilities must be bought
- C. goodwill results where value of assets
- D. the vendor debits his business purchase account with the considerstion he receives
Shares issued to a vendor in payment of business purchased would require a debit to?
- A. cash account and credit to share capital account
- B. share capital account and credit to vendor's account
- C. vendor's account and credit to share capital account
- D. share capital account and credit to cash account
A basic unifying concept in accounting implies that?
- A. where creditors'account is zero, the assets are equal to the owners' equity
- B. there should be a balance in the creditors' account in order to measure total assets
- C. revenues should be supported by invested and owners'capital
- D. total assets can be less than liabilities and equity
The market price per ordinary share of a corporation listed on the stock exchange is most closely related to its?
- A. earning per share
- B. redemption price per share
- C. book value per share
- D. call price per share
The basic role of accounting is to?
- A. detect fraud
- B. attest to finacial statements
- C. measure performance
- D. protect sharehlders
If a promoter pays a lawyer N5,000 for services rendered in preparing a Memorandum of Incorporation, the journal entry is to debit?
- A. preliminary expenses, credit cash accounts
- B. promoter, credit creditors' accounts
- C. lawyer's credit cash accounts
- D. cash , credit incorporation accounts
Given: Club N150 Cash sales N4,850 Club debtors at close N900 Cash received from debtors N550 What is the amount of club sales?
- A. N6,150
- B. N4,850
- C. N4,650
- D. N1,300
Which of the following account is kept by local governments in Nigeria?
- A. Balance sheet
- B. Advances account
- C. Debtors account
- D. Profit account

