JAMB Accounting Past QuestionsFinancial Accounting, JAMB JAMB Accounting Past Questions 0% JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Practice JAMB Accounting Past Questions and Answers and pass your examination. 1 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION If sales return is understated, it implies that ------------------------------ is overstated return outward sales figure cost of sales return inward 2 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Capital reserves includes the following except share premium general reserves pre-incoporation profit revaluation surplus 3 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION CR. DR.Sales ledger balance 9, 500Sales ledger balance 420Bought ledgers balance 6, 115Bought ledger balance 350Credit sales 82, 000Purchases journal 54, 700Discount allowed 450Discount received 200Cash refunded to customers (debtors) 120Purchases ledger balance 250Sales ledger balance 120The amount brought down in the sales ledger control account would be N80, N750 N90, N990 N9, N1740; N120 N90, N870; N120 4 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION If rent account is debited instead of rate account, the error committed is that of; omission commission original entry principle 5 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Determine wage expenses from the given information, wages outstanding at the beginning, wages paid during the period 15000 and wages outstanding of the period 2,000 N17,000 N16,000 N14,000 N13,000 6 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Use the following information to answer this question.Provision for bad debt 1500Additional information1. Bad debt written off amount to 30002. Debtors balance as at the end of the year is 28,0003. Provision for bad debts stand at 10%How much is to be charged to profit and loss account as provision for bad debt? N1, 000 N3, 000 N2, 800 N2, 500 7 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Use the information below to answer this question.Buhari and Osinbajo are in partnership with the following partnership agreementBuhari OsinbajoCapital 40, 000 70, 000Salary 10, 000 15, 000Interest on capital 5% 5%Profit/loss sharing ratio 40 60The net profit for the year ended is N80,000."Drawings are N80, 000 and N12, 000 for Buhari and Osinbajo respectively"What is Osinbajo share of profit? N29, 700 N19, 800 N48, 000 N49, 500 8 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The purpose of a trading account is to ascertain gross profit or loss net profit or loss carriage outwards sales 9 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Sales ledger control account contains the total amount in respect of creditors investors debtors shareholders 10 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Use the information below to answer this question.Timo and Chris are computer engineers who went into partnership as Teachi and Co. Timo brought cash of N12,000 furniture worth of N18,000 and vehicle worth of 70,000. Chris equally brought in cash of 10,000 his building valued at 105,000 and personal computers worth N35,000.What is the profit sharing ratio if it’s based on capital contribution by Teechi and Co? 3 : 2 5 : 6 6 : 5 2 : 3 11 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION In a bank reconciliation statement, Dishonoured cheques is added to aggregate balanace as per cash book unpresented cheques statement of account uncredited cheques 12 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Specific principles, bases, conventions, rules and practices adopted by an enterprise in preparing and presenting financial statements are known as --------------------- accounting conventions accounting policies financial accounting cost accounting 13 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Preliminary expenses is an example of fictitious assets liquid assets tangible assets wasting assets 14 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION One of the items listed below will not be found in a company’s memorandum and article of association. Which is it? location of business bank signatories objects and their alteration powers of directors 15 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION What is the ledger entry for sale of generator on credit to Patrick? credit generator account and debit Patrick’s account credit generator account and debit cash account credit sales account and debit cash account credit sales account and debit Patrick’s account 16 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Use the information below to answer this question.Jejelaye Plc stock records for 2009 was given below:Jan 1 received 100 units at N1.00Jan 8 received 260 units at N1.05Jan 20 issued 700units at .........Feb 3 received 400 units at N1.15What will be the issued price of 700 units, using simple average method N1.025 N1.183 N1.05 N1.00 17 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The ware and tear of a fixed assets of a company which is chargeable to company’s financial statement is called ------------------------------ amortization depreciation provisions appreciation 18 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION To realize an asset means to mortgage it turn it to cash give it out as a collateral open its account in the ledger 19 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Use the following information to answer this question.Club building 400,000;Subscription prepaid 3,000;Sport kits 150,000;Bar creditors 85,000;Subscription owing 32,000;What is the club’s accumulated fund? N402, 000 N641, 000 N699, 000 N605, 000 20 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Which of the following accounts is debited when a delivery van is sold for cash? cash account sales account profit and loss accounts delivery van account 21 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The major distinguishing element between the final account of a partnership and that of a sole trader is the Capital A/C Creditor A/C Drawing A/C Appropriation A/C 22 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Sai Baba made sales of N10,000 having computed his gross profit % to sales to be 20. His opening stock was N250 and ending stock is N200.Calculate his purchases. N7050 N7950 N8950 N8050 23 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The accounting concept that allows the cost of kitchen cutlery to be expensed, though it can be used for more than one year is Business entity Going concern Accrual Materiality 24 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Use the information below to answer this question.A limited liability company has an authorized shares capital of 50 million split into 100 millions shares. 80million shares are offered for subscriptions at 60k per share in full on application. These have been fully subscribed on issueWhat is the nominal value of each share N0.80 N0.50 N2 N0.60 25 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The accounting convention that state that stock should be value that the lower of cost and net realized value is --------------- convention consistency marching prudency realization 26 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION If the partnership agreement does not specify how net profit is to be divided, the profit should be divided equally in proportion of current account balances in proportion of weighted average of capital in accordance with an established 27 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The process of cost apportionment is carried out so that variable costs may be controlled indirect costs may be controlled common costs are shared among cost centres cost units could gather overhead as they pass through cost centres 28 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Accounting information is used by investors and creditors of a company to predict potential merger candidates for the company future tax payments of the company future cash flows of the company appropriate remunerations for the company’s staff 29 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The act of making necessary adjustment after comparing the actual cost with targeted cost is cost ---------------------------- control conversion analysis allocation 30 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Use the information below to answer this question.Dangote acquired Dantata’s business for N350,000.The total asset work were N820,000 and liabilities amounted to N 640,000The double entry to record the goodwill in the books is debt purchase of business account and credit cash account goodwill account and credit cash account cash account and credit goodwill account goodwill account and credit purchase of business account 31 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Income and expenditure account is more detailed than receipts and payments account because it disclosed stocks cash debtors cheques 32 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Which of the following cannot be realized? debtors goodwill motor vehicles creditors 33 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The interest of a petty cashier is N2450Expenses N Printing 420 Cleaning 250 Stamp andpostage 175 How much was received to maintain theinterest at the end of the month? N1, 300 N1, 605 N2, 450 N8, 45 34 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The basis of accounting for public sector is revenue basis cash basis cost basis accrual basis 35 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION What does liquidity ratio measure? measures operating efficiency of a company measures the financial leverage of a company measures the value of investments of a company measures the ability of a company to meet its current obligations 36 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION When the invoice of a customer is overcast, the supplier will send to him a cheque payment voucher debit note credit note 37 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Calculate the total purchase of a business from the given information, cash purchases 3000; payments to creditors 54,000; creditors at the beginning 4000; creditors at the end 2,000 N55,000 N50,000 N52,000 N51,000 38 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Which of the following is not a feature of accounting information? affordability timeliness completeness accuracy 39 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The accounting concepts which assumes that business will continue to be in existence into the foresee ablefure is periodicity business entity dual aspect going concern 40 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The following accounting entries are made whenbad debt is recovered debit bad debts recovered account and credit bad debts account debit bad debts account and credit profit and loss account debit debtors accounts and recovered account debit bad debts accounts and credit bad debt recovered account NameEmail Your score is LinkedIn Facebook VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Send feedback