MCQ 11 Mark
Goods distributed as free sample are treated as$.....$
AnswerDistribution of goods as the free samples is a business expense which will give benefit the business hence this has to be recorded as a sales promotion expense.
In this case, debiting the “advertisement $($or free sample$)$ account” and crediting the “purchases account.
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Goods destroyed by fire should be credited to $......$
- ✓
- B
- C
Loss of goods by fire account
- D
AnswerLoss of goods by fire, it is just possible that some goods may catch fire and result in loss to the business. This is definitely loss, so "Loss of goods by fire" account will be debited. Such goods have been destroyed, not sold, so their valuation will be made at cost price. So, purchases account will be credited. The journal entry for this transaction will be made as under:
Loss of goods by fire A/c Dr.
To Purchases A/c
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A, B and C are three partners in a partnership firm dealing in building materials. A on his own without knowledge and consent of remaining partners signed a export order on which he made substantial profit. A is liable to $......$
- A
Retain the profit with him
- ✓
Render the true account of profit to the firm
- C
Share the profit with other partners
- D
Give some part of profit to other partners also
AnswerCorrect option: B. Render the true account of profit to the firm
View full question & answer→MCQ 41 Mark
$......$ is a good indicator of how well the business activities are being managed.
AnswerOperating profit is calculated by deducting the operating expenses from the operating income. Operating expenses are those which are directly related to the core business activity.
Operating profit indicates the earning from the core business operations. Its an indicator of how well a business operations are being managed.
View full question & answer→MCQ 51 Mark
The dividend per share in a company is $Rs. 2$, earning per share is $Rs. 5$, and the market value is $Rs. 25.$ What will be its yield?
- ✓
$20$ per cent
- B
$12.5$ per cent
- C
$8$ per cent
- D
$25$ per cent
AnswerCorrect option: A. $20$ per cent
Yield ratio $=$ A financial ratio that indicates how much a company earns after pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price. yield ratio is represented as a percentage.
yield ratio $= ($ Earning per share / Share price$)* 100$
yield ratio $= ( Rs.5 / Rs. 25) * 100$
yield ratio $= 20$ percent.
View full question & answer→MCQ 61 Mark
$...... =$ net profit $+$ non operating expenses $-$ non operating incomes.
AnswerOperating profit is defined as the profit earned by the business from its core business activity. There are certain item of non operating expense and non operating income which are adjusted from operating profit to find out the net profit of the business.
For example, dividend received on investment is an example of non operating income and loss on sale of fixed asset is an example of non operating expenses.
Hence, Operating Profit $=$ Net profit $+$ Non Operating Expenses $-$ Non operating income.
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View full question & answer→MCQ 81 Mark
The stakeholders are $......$ of financial statements.
AnswerA stakeholder is either an individual, group or organization who is impacted by the outcome of a project. They have an interest in the success of the project, and can be within or outside the organization that is sponsoring the project. Stakeholders can have a positive or negative influence on the project.
Financial statements are reports prepared by a company’s management to present the financial performance and position at a point in time.
A general-purpose set of financial statements usually includes a balance sheet, income statements, statement of owner’s equity, and statement of cash flows. These statements are prepared to give users outside of the company, like investors and creditors, more information about the company’s financial positions.
These financial statements are used by stakeholders such as bankers, government, creditors, debtors etc.
View full question & answer→MCQ 91 Mark
A trade purchase of $Rs.5500$ from $Y$ was passed through Sales Day book as $Rs.550$, What rectification entry would be passed if the mistake is detected before preparation of trading and profit and loss A/c:
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Sales A/c Dr. $Rs.550$, Purchase A/c Dr. $Rs.5500$, Y's A/c Cr. $Rs.6050$
- B
Profit and loss adjustment a/c Dr. $Rs.6050$, Y's A/c Cr. $Rs.6050$
- C
Sales A/c Dr. $Rs.550,$ Purchase A/c Dr. $Rs.5500$, Suspense A/c Cr. $Rs.6050$
- D
AnswerCorrect option: A. Sales A/c Dr. $Rs.550$, Purchase A/c Dr. $Rs.5500$, Y's A/c Cr. $Rs.6050$
View full question & answer→MCQ 101 Mark
Which statement shows financial position of the business?
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There are three partners in a firm $A, B$ and $C, D$ is admitted into the firm with 1/4 share of profit with a guaranteed profit of $Rs. 15,000$ p.a. given by A. The firm's total profit is Its. $56,000$. What would be share of profit of A:
- A
$Rs. 20,000$
- ✓
$Rs. 13,000$
- C
$Rs. 12,500$
- D
$Rs. 17,500$
AnswerCorrect option: B. $Rs. 13,000$
View full question & answer→MCQ 121 Mark
Donation received for a specific purpose should $......$
- ✓
Be credited to a separate account and shown on the liabilities side of the balance sheet.
- B
Be credited to income and expenditure account.
- C
- D
Be debited to income and expenditure account.
AnswerCorrect option: A. Be credited to a separate account and shown on the liabilities side of the balance sheet.
Donation received for a specific purpose is to be utilized for the specific activity. This kind of donations are capital receipts and to recorded separatly. It should be kept in a separate account and expense to be reduced from this account only. Balance of this account to be shown as liability in the balance sheet.
View full question & answer→MCQ 131 Mark
Accumulated losses are shown on the:
- ✓
- B
- C
Profit and loss appropriation A/c
- D
Deducted from share capital
View full question & answer→MCQ 141 Mark
How would you treat $Rs. 5250$ spent on the over haul of a second hand machine purchased:
- A
- B
Loss in profit and loss A/c
- ✓
- D
View full question & answer→MCQ 151 Mark
Retail method of inventory valuation is based on which of the following assumption.
- A
$GP$ Ratio is same
- B
- ✓
Closing inventory and total goods available for sale contains the same proportion of high cost and lost cost goods.
- D
AnswerCorrect option: C. Closing inventory and total goods available for sale contains the same proportion of high cost and lost cost goods.
Closing inventory and total goods available for sale contains the same proportion of high cost and lost cost goods.
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Item which can be grouped and shown under the heading of current assets $......$
AnswerCorrect option: D. $A$ and $B$
Prepaid expenses are those which are not due but already paid. These are considered as part of current assets.
Debtors are various customers to whom the organization has sold goods on credit. This is part of current assets as these are recoverable in next business cycle.
View full question & answer→MCQ 171 Mark
Closing stock lying unsold with the consignee is valued at $..............$
- A
- B
- C
- ✓
Least of cost or net realizable value
AnswerCorrect option: D. Least of cost or net realizable value
If all the goods are not sold by the Consignee within the accounting period, then the unsold stock is brought into account by the Consignor. As usual, the unsold stock in the hands of the consignee should be valued on cost price or market price whichever is less.
View full question & answer→MCQ 181 Mark
Purchase of office equipment on $30$ days credit will be recorded in:
AnswerA book is maintained to record transaction, which do not find place in special journals, is known as journal proper or journal residual or general journal.
Purchase of office equipments on credit will not be recorded in any of the special subsidiary books, therefore, it will be recorded in journal proper.
View full question & answer→MCQ 191 Mark
Opening Capital is $₹ 1,50,000,$ Closing Capital $₹ 2,75,000,$ Drawings $₹ 25,000,$ Further Capital introduced $₹ 45,000$. What is Gross Profit?
- A
$₹ 55,000.$
- B
$₹ 1,95,000.$
- ✓
$₹ 1,05,000.$
- D
$₹ 1,75,000.$
AnswerCorrect option: C. $₹ 1,05,000.$
View full question & answer→MCQ 201 Mark
Capital Expenditure and Revenue Expenditure:
- ✓
- B
Need not be distinguished.
- C
May or may not be distinguished.
- D
View full question & answer→MCQ 211 Mark
Which of these is not a monetary items?
AnswerA non$-$monetary item is subject to a change in value and cannot be quickly converted to cash. A factory or piece of equipment is a nonmonetary item because its value generally declines over time with usage. Inventory is also a non$-$monetary asset because it can become obsolete.
View full question & answer→MCQ 221 Mark
Loss on sale of an old car is debited to.
View full question & answer→MCQ 231 Mark
From the following estimate total sales to be shown in trading A/c. Cash sales $Rs.20,000$, Cash collection from debtors $Rs.1,30,000,$ Bad debts during the year $15,000$. Cash discount to debtors $Rs.5000$. Debtors as on $31.01.2010 \ Rs.25,000$ Debtors as a $31.12.2010 \ Rs.55,000:$
- A
$Rs.180,000$
- ✓
$Rs.200,000$
- C
$Rs.210,000$
- D
$Rs.190,000$
AnswerCorrect option: B. $Rs.200,000$
View full question & answer→MCQ 241 Mark
The balance sheet is a $.......$ of the assets, liabilities and capital of concern as on particular date.
AnswerThe balance sheet indicates the financial position of a firm on a particular date. It is prepared as a statement showing all the assets and liabilities of the firm.
View full question & answer→MCQ 251 Mark
- ✓
A contract to buy a certain number of shares at a stated price within a specified period of time.
- B
A contract to sell a certain number of shares at a stated price within a specified period of time.
- C
The option of the issuing company to demand the shareholders to pay for the partly paid shares.
- D
The option available to the convertible debenture holders to demand equity shares in conversion of debentures.
AnswerCorrect option: A. A contract to buy a certain number of shares at a stated price within a specified period of time.
A call option is an agreement that gives the option buyer the right to buy the underlying asset at a specified price within a specific time period.
View full question & answer→MCQ 261 Mark
Which of these is an example of extraordinary items?
- A
- B
Profit on sale of raw materials
- C
Arrears of wage revision paid in the current year
- ✓
AnswerExtraordinary items consisted of gains or losses from events that were unusual and infrequent in nature that was separately classified, presented and disclosed on companies' financial statements.
It includes expenses to deal with a fire, earthquake, or uninsured losses from a flood, the gain or loss from early retirement of debt, and profit on the sale of raw materials.
View full question & answer→MCQ 271 Mark
A business entity has assets of $Rs.26,000$ and liabilities of $Rs.6,000.$ Owner's equity in this case is $......$
- A
$Rs.32,000$
- B
$Rs.26,000$
- ✓
$Rs.20,000$
- D
$Rs.6,000$
AnswerCorrect option: C. $Rs.20,000$
Accounting Equation is formulated as:
Owner's Equity $+$ Liabilities $=$ Total Assets.
By putting the available information in the given problem:
Owner's Equity $+ Rs.6000 = Rs.26000$
Owner's Equity $= Rs. 26000 - Rs.6000$
Owner's Equity $= Rs.20000$
View full question & answer→MCQ 281 Mark
Gagan purchases a bond today and sells $6$ months before its maturity. The yield realized is known as $......$
- ✓
- B
Current yield if coupon interest is received.
- C
- D
AnswerThe yield that Gagan earned over the holding period of $6$ months before the bond's maturity is termed as holding period return.
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- A
- B
- ✓
Clients, customers, suppliers etc.
- D
AnswerCorrect option: C. Clients, customers, suppliers etc.
These accounts types are related to persons. These persons may be natural persons like Raj's account, Rajesh's account, Ramesh's account, Suresh's account, etc. These persons can also be artificial persons like partnership firms, companies, bodies corporate, an association of persons, etc.
View full question & answer→MCQ 301 Mark
Closing Stock appearing in the Trial Balance is shown:
- A
On the Dr. side of Trading A/c.
- B
On the Cr. side of Trading A/c.
- ✓
On the Assets side of Balance Sheet.
- D
On the Cr. side of Trading A/c and on the Assets side of Balance Sheet.
AnswerCorrect option: C. On the Assets side of Balance Sheet.
View full question & answer→MCQ 311 Mark
Divisible profits excludes $......$
AnswerDivisible profit is that part of profit which is available with the company for distribution of reserves. Securities premium reserves made out of capital profit hence, are not divisible profit.
View full question & answer→MCQ 321 Mark
Large advertisement expenditure to introduce a new product is:
- A
- B
- ✓
Deferred Revenue Expenditure.
- D
AnswerCorrect option: C. Deferred Revenue Expenditure.
Deferred Revenue Expenditure.
View full question & answer→MCQ 331 Mark
Loss of stock to fire would lead to $......$
- A
No charge in total assets
- B
- C
- ✓
Total assets and owners equity to decrease
AnswerCorrect option: D. Total assets and owners equity to decrease
View full question & answer→MCQ 341 Mark
Summarizing take place in the form of $......$
- A
- B
Trading account and Balance sheet
- C
- ✓
AnswerThe first step in the process of accounting cycle is recording of transactions in journal and ledger. After this process, summarizing takes place.
Summarising involves posting from ledger to prepare a trial balance and then the items of trial balance are posted in profit and loss account from which we get the net profit of the firm.
After that balance sheet of the company is prepared from which we get the details about the assets and liabilities of the business of the firm. So basically summarizing involves trial balnace,profit and loss account and balancesheet.
View full question & answer→MCQ 351 Mark
Interest and taxes are $......$ from operating profit to find out the net profit.
View full question & answer→MCQ 361 Mark
Which of the following is not shown in Balance Sheet?
View full question & answer→MCQ 371 Mark
On $31^{st}$ December $2013$. A of Ahmedabad consigned $1000$ Boxes of $\text{SET TOP}$ Box to $D$ of Delhi $($Cost price $1,60,000)$ at a Proforma invoice price of $25\%$ profit in cost. Consignment accounted would be credited for stock loading by.
- ✓
$Rs. 40,000$
- B
$Rs. 45,000$
- C
$Rs. 50,000$
- D
$Rs. 33,000$
AnswerCorrect option: A. $Rs. 40,000$
View full question & answer→MCQ 381 Mark
Interest on the capital of the proprietor is shown in:
- A
- ✓
Profit and Loss appropriation A/c
- C
- D
AnswerCorrect option: B. Profit and Loss appropriation A/c
Interest on capital account is an appropriation. Appropriation means it is paid only and only if there is profit.
As Interest on capital is appropriation it will be shown in the debit side of profit and loss appropriation account.
View full question & answer→MCQ 391 Mark
The take over of a company in which most of the purchase price is paid with borrowed money is referred to as $......$
- A
- B
- ✓
Leveraged buy$-$out
- D
Management buy$-$out
AnswerCorrect option: C. Leveraged buy$-$out
A leveraged buy out $\text{(LBO)}$ is financial transaction in which a company purchased another company by using the borrowed money.
A leveraged buyout is the acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money $($bonds or loans$)$ to meet the cost of acquisition.
View full question & answer→MCQ 401 Mark
When a fixed asset is acquired on hire purchase terms, such an asset is $......$
- A
Not shown in the financial statement because ownership does vest in the enterprise.
- B
Shown in the books at the amount paid.
- ✓
Shown in the books at cash value.
- D
Shown in the books at hire purchase price.
AnswerCorrect option: C. Shown in the books at cash value.
View full question & answer→MCQ 411 Mark
While calculating operating profit, the following are not taken into account
- A
- B
- ✓
Expenses of purely financial nature
- D
Both $(ii)$ and $(iii)$
AnswerCorrect option: C. Expenses of purely financial nature
Operating profit is calculated by deducting the operating expenses from the operating income. Operating expenses are those which are directly related to the core business activity.
Expense of purely financial nature are not taken in to account while calculating the operating profit.
View full question & answer→MCQ 421 Mark
Specific identification method of inventory valuation involves $......$
- A
Keeping track of the purchase price of each specific unit.
- B
Keeping track over the units being sold.
- C
Pricing closing stock at the actual price of each and every item not sold.
- ✓
View full question & answer→MCQ 431 Mark
Financial Statements consist of:
- A
- B
Trading and Profit and Loss Account.
- C
- ✓
Both $(b)$ and $(c).$
AnswerCorrect option: D. Both $(b)$ and $(c).$
View full question & answer→MCQ 441 Mark
Purchase of machinery for production is:
- A
- ✓
- C
Deferred Revenue Expenditure.
- D
View full question & answer→MCQ 451 Mark
Type of bonds that are issued by foreign governments or foreign corporations are classified as $......$
AnswerAn international bond is a debt obligation that is issued in a country by a non-domestic entity in its native currency. International bonds are usually corporate bonds.
View full question & answer→MCQ 461 Mark
Which one of the following is an example of an intangible asset?
- A
- B
Discount on issue of debentures
- C
- ✓
AnswerFixed assets are of $2$ types:
Tangible
Intangible
Intangible assets are such assets that cannot be seen or touched. Goodwill, Patents, Trademarks, are some of the examples of intangible assets.
View full question & answer→MCQ 471 Mark
Transfer to Capital Redemption Reserve can be from:
- A
- B
- C
Profit prior to incorporation
- D
AnswerWhere a company purchases its own shares out of free reserves or securities premium account, a sum equal to the nominal value of the shares so purchased shall be transferred to the capital redemption reserve account and details of such transfer shall be disclosed in the balance sheet.
View full question & answer→MCQ 481 Mark
Provision for bad debts is calculated on $......$
AnswerProvisions are created by debiting the profit and loss account. In the balance sheet, the amount of provision may be shown by the way of deduction from the concerned asset on asset side. For e.g. provision for doubtful debts is shown as deduction from the amount of sundry debtors and provision for depreciation as a deduction from the concerned fixed asset.
View full question & answer→MCQ 491 Mark
Rights of the unpaid seller against the goods are provided for in Chapter of the Sale of Goods Act.
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$\text{ABC}$ Ltd. purchased a plant for $Rs.60,000$ payable $Rs.15,000$ in cash and balance by issue of $16\%$ debentures of $Rs.100$ each. How many debentures would be required to be issued to the vendor:
- A
$455$ debentures of $Rs.100$ each
- ✓
$450$ debentures of $Rs.100$ each
- C
$435$ debentures of $Rs.100$ each
- D
$460$ debentures of $Rs.100$ each
AnswerCorrect option: B. $450$ debentures of $Rs.100$ each
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