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

1

Which of the following date lines is correct for a profit and loss account?

  • A. for the year ended 31st December 2009
  • B. as 31st December 2009
  • C. for the period 31st December 2009
  • D. as at the year 2009
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2

Provision for depreciation on delivery van is charged to

  • A. trading account
  • B. profit and loss account
  • C. appropriation account
  • D. manufacturing account
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3

The concept which states that assets are not to be recorded at their current market value is

  • A. money measuremen
  • B. materiality
  • C. cost
  • D. entity
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4

Which of the following is not used in Public accounting?

  • A. cash book
  • B. trial balance
  • C. profit and loss account
  • D. bank reconciliation statement
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5

The business entity concept

  • A. seperates the owner's transactions from the business transactions
  • B. records transactions outside the business
  • C. does not seperate the owner's trasactions from the business transactions
  • D. involves other business transactions
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6

The bank statement shows a debit balance of Le 475. After the entry of an uncredited of Le Le 800, the new balance is

  • A. Le 325 overdraft
  • B. Le 325
  • C. Le 1,275
  • D. Le 1,275 overdraft
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7

The process of recording financial transactions of government is

  • A. management accounting
  • B. financial accounting
  • C. cost accounting
  • D. public sector accounting
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8

Use the following information to answer the given question.
OGOGO’S SALES LEDGER LEDGER CONTROL ACCOUNT
\(\begin{array}{c|c} & D & & D \\ \text{Balance b/d} & 25,180 & \text{Discount allowed} & 1,936 \\ \text{Sales} & 43,220 & \text{Sales returns} & 1,884\\ \text{Dishonored cheque} & 542 & \text{Cash received from customers} & xxx \\ & & \text{Balance c\d} & 5,122 \\ & \overline{68,942} & & \overline{68,942} \end{array}\)
the total cash received from customer is

  • A. D68,942
  • B. D60,000
  • C. D43,220
  • D. D41,336
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9

Use the following information to answer the given question.
OGOGO’S SALES LEDGER LEDGER CONTROL ACCOUNT
\(\begin{array}{c|c} & D & & D \\ \text{Balance b/d} & 25,180 & \text{Discount allowed} & 1,936 \\ \text{Sales} & 43,220 & \text{Sales returns} & 1,884\\ \text{Dishonored cheque} & 542 & \text{Cash received from customers} & xxx \\ & & \text{Balance c\d} & 5,122 \\ & \overline{68,942} & & \overline{68,942} \end{array}\)
Net sales is

  • A. D41,878
  • B. D41,336
  • C. D41,284
  • D. d39,400
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10

The diagrammatic representation of the workings of the computer program is

  • A. flow chart
  • B. desktop
  • C. keyboard
  • D. byte
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11

When shares are issued to the public and the issuing company has not requested for payments, it is referred to as

  • A. authorized capital
  • B. paid-up capital
  • C. uncalled capital
  • D. unissued capatal
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12

Rent owed by a department is treated in the Balance sheet as

  • A. asset of the business
  • B. asset of the department
  • C. liability of the business
  • D. liability of the department
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13

computer memory sizes are measured in

  • A. kilometers
  • B. kilowatts
  • C. kilobytes
  • D. centimetres
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14

Goods sent to branch are recorded in the head office’s books at i. selling price ii. cost price plus makeup percentage iii. cost price

  • A. i and ii
  • B. i and iii
  • C. ii and iii
  • D. i, ii and iii
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15

Which of the following is not an example of capital reserve?

  • A. share premium
  • B. retained profits
  • C. surplus on revaluation of assets
  • D. pre-incorporation profits
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16

The concept which deals with the exclusion of trivial items in the accounting records is

  • A. constitency
  • B. going concern
  • C. materiality
  • D. money measurement
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17

A debenture is

  • A. a loan capital raised by a company
  • B. money gives to a company as a gift
  • C. accuerd expenses
  • D. share capital
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18

Which of the following is not a purpose for which share premium may be utilized?

  • A. issuing fully oaid bonus share
  • B. writing off preliminary expenses
  • C. settling salesman commission
  • D. providing for redeemable preference shares
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19

The first calculating machine in data processing was

  • A. abacus
  • B. pascal
  • C. punched cards
  • D. digital
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20

The going concern concept assumes that

  • A. every transaction is represented by a debit and credit entry
  • B. the currency much not change
  • C. the firm is a legal entity
  • D. the business will continue to operate indefinitely
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21

Use the following information to answer the given question.
\(\begin{array}{c|c} & ₦\\ \hline \text{Prime cost} & 4,000\\ \text{Factory overheads} & 6,000\\ \text{Stock on 1/1/09 work-in-progress} & 1,000\\ \text{Stock on 31/12/09 work-in-progress} & 2,000 \\ \text{Returns inwards} & 800 \\ \text{Sales} & 20,000\end{array}\)
Net sales for the period is

  • A. ₦20.000
  • B. ₦20,8000
  • C. ₦19,200
  • D. ₦10,000
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