Accounts - Principles of Accounts JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

22

As evidence of payment to a government ministry, the revenue collector issue

  • A. treasury card
  • B. receipt voucher card
  • C. treasury recipet
  • D. payment voucher
  • E. store receipt voucher
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23

Materials are taken out of government unallocated store by means of

  • A. verbal instruction by the Governor
  • B. stores issue voucher
  • C. stores credit voucher
  • D. store ledger card
  • E. departmental authorisation order
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24

The Chief accounting officer of the Federation Republic of Nigeria is the

  • A. chief accountant
  • B. minister of finace
  • C. minister of economic planning
  • D. accountant general of the federation
  • E. auditor general of the federation
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25

The assets of business can be classified broadly int

  • A. fixed and floating assets
  • B. fixed and current assets
  • C. intangible and fixed assets
  • D. current and circulating assets
  • E. investment and tangibl assets
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26

One of the advantages of control account is that

  • A. all errors are localised tus reducing delays in balancing accounts
  • B. all erroes are generalized thus reducing delays in balancing accounts
  • C. book keepers cannot make mistakes
  • D. all errors are posted into the account
  • E. all cash transactions are posted into the accounts
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27

A private limited company is that which i. restricts the right to transfer its share. ii. has a minimum of seven members. iii. limits membership to fifty. iv. offers its shares for sale to the public

  • A. i and ii
  • B. ii and iv
  • C. i and iv
  • D. ii and iii
  • E. i and iii
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28

In a professional partnership, membership must be between

  • A. 2 and 8
  • B. 2 and 10
  • C. 2 and 50
  • D. 2 and any number
  • E. 2 and 20
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29

Impersonal real accounts include. i. expenditure on telephone ii. motor vehicles iii. expenses on telegram iv. land and buildings

  • A. i and iii
  • B. iii and iv
  • C. ii and iv
  • D. i, ii and iii
  • E. i, ii, iii and iv
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30

Ajijola Enterprises bought 40 pairs of shoes at N45 each from Kabi Shoe Factory on credit. This transaction will first be recorded by Ajijola in the

  • A. ledger
  • B. principal journal
  • C. cash book
  • D. purchases day book
  • E. sales day book
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31

Which of the following will not affect the agreement of the cash book balance and bank statement balance?

  • A. bank charges
  • B. standing order
  • C. dishonoured cheque
  • D. cash payment
  • E. unpresented cheques
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32

In a non-profit oriented organization, the excess of income over expenditure is

  • A. asses ro the capita,l
  • B. added to the accumulated fund
  • C. deducted from the capital
  • D. deduced from the accumulated fund
  • E. deduced from the reserve
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33

Directors’ remuneration are recorded in the book as

  • A. revenue expenditure
  • B. appropriaion
  • C. deferred expenditure
  • D. provision
  • E. capital expenditure
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34

Subscription in advance is treated in the balance sheet of a club as

  • A. current liability
  • B. current asset
  • C. fixed asset
  • D. fictitious asset
  • E. intangible asset
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35

A trader paid insurance premium of N1,350 for 15 months ended 31st March 1991. He prepares to 31st December. The amount carried in the Balance Sheet is classified as

  • A. current asset
  • B. current liabilities
  • C. investment
  • D. fictitious asset
  • E. reserve
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36

A trader paid insurance premium of N1,350 for 15 months ended 31st March 1991. He prepares to 31st December. How much is carried in the Balance Sheet at 31st December 1990?

  • A. N1,350
  • B. N1,080
  • C. N338
  • D. N270
  • E. N90
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37

A trader paid insurance premium of N1,350 for 15 months ended 31st March 1991. He prepares to 31st December. How much is charges to the profit and loss account for 1990?

  • A. N1,350
  • B. N1,080
  • C. N338
  • D. N270
  • E. N90
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38

Adex Company Limited issued ordinary shares N1 each to the public at N1.20. The statement were issued at

  • A. a discount
  • B. a profit
  • C. a loss
  • D. par
  • E. a premium
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39

Which of the following is not a book of prime entry?

  • A. cash book
  • B. puchases day book
  • C. sles day book
  • D. journal paper
  • E. purchases ledger
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40

The purchases of a typewriter for the office was debited to purchases account. This is an error of

  • A. commission
  • B. omission
  • C. original entry
  • D. principle
  • E. compensation
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41

The accounting equation is

  • A. assets and liabilities amount to capital
  • B. capital less assets amounts to liabilities
  • C. asseta less liabilities amount to capital
  • D. capital and assets amounts to liability
  • E. fixed assets and current liabilities amount to capital
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42

In a manufacturing company, wages paid to operatives increase the value of

  • A. urnover
  • B. prime cost
  • C. gross profit
  • D. overhead cost
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