2014 - WAEC Accounting Past Questions and Answers - page 5

41

Which of the following item is not treated in the profit and loss account?

A
office expenses
B
salaries and allowances
C
carriage inwards
D
discounts allowed
correct option: b

 A profit and loss account will include your credits (which includes turnover and other income) and deduct your debits (which includes allowances, cost of sales and overheads). These are used to find your bottom line figure – either your net profit or your net loss.

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42

The document prepared by a local/district government to present its annual estimates for a planning period is

A
a balance sheet
B
a budget
C
an income and expendiure account
D
a cash bppk
correct option: b

A budget is an estimation of revenue and expenses over a specified future period of time; it is compiled and re-evaluated on a periodic basis.

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43

A manufacturing account is drawn up by

A
firms providing personal services
B
firms engaged solely in buying and selling of goods
C
firms which makes and sell articles
D
non-trading organization
correct option: c

The manufacturing account is an account in the general ledger which is used to accumulate all the manufacturing costs of goods completed by a business during an accounting period. It is used by firms involved in the production and sales of goods

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44

Which of the following is not a factory overhead cost? 

A
manufacturing wages
B
factory rent
C
depreciation of machinery
D
salary of factory guard
correct option: a

Examples of factory overhead costs include: indirect materials, indirect labor, depreciation of the factory equipment and plant, amortization of patents, the cost of small tools used, factory utilities, insurance on the factory and equipment, property taxes on plant and equipment, property taxes on materials and goods

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45

A collection of fields relating to one logically definable unit of business information is known as

A
database
B
character
C
byte
D
record
correct option: a

Database - is an integrated collection of logically related records or files.  A database consolidates records previously stored in separate files into a common pool of data records that provides data for many applications.

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46

The principle of double entry bookkeeping states that

A
every debtor must have a creditor
B
every account debited must be immediately credited
C
for every debit entry, there must be a corresponding credit entry
D
for every double debit, there must be a double credit
correct option: c

The double entry principle of bookkeeping states that, for every credit entry, there must be a corresponding debit entry and vice versa

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