Which of the following will be debited if a business purchases goods on credit?

Which of the following accounts will be credited if a company purchases building for cash?

A. Capital account
B. Fixed assets account
C. Building account
D. Cash account

Which one of the following is a capital expenditure?

A. Compensation paid to Directors on termination of their services
B. Expenditure incurred in connection with the renewal of a Trade Mark.
C. Gratuities paid to Directors on termination of their services.
D. Royalty paid in installments for the purchase of rights to manufacture and sell patient medicines.

The process of paying off debt over time in regular installment of interest & principal sufficient to repay the loan in fully by its maturity date.A. Amortization
B. Loan Payment
C. Liability
D. Securitization

 

Under the direct write-off method of recognizing a bad debt expense. Which of the following statements is/are true?

A. The bad debt expense is not matched with the related sales
B. Revenue is overstated in the year of sales
C. It violates the matching principle of accounting
D. All of the above

Under the direct write off method of recognizing a bad debt expense, the alternative D. is the correct answer which the combination of the following statements A. The bad debt expense is not matched with the related sales because the expense is written off in the year of occurrence and it is not matching with the related sales. B. Revenue is overstated in the year of Sales as a result not making any provision for possible loss on account of non- recoverable account. C. It violates the matching principle of accounting as the expense of bad debt is not matched for the same period of income. Thus, D. is the correct answer.

A few errors committed in Ahhiwalia’s books of account are given below. State which errors would affect the Trial Balance.

(a). Sales of `950 to Ram completely omitted from books of account
(b). Purchases of `720 from Shyam entered in the purchases journal as `700
(c). Purchases Journal is overcast by `1,000
(d). Sales returns journal is undercast by `200
(e) Amount paid to Agarwal wrongly posted to the debit to Mittal’s account
(f) Bank overdraft shown under debit column in the Trial Balance
(g) Sales of `500 to Sadiq entered in sales journal as sales to Mushtaq
(h) Wages paid for installation of machinery debited to wages account
A. a, c and g
B. c, d and f
C. c, d, e and h
D. c, d, f and h