Accounting MCQs / Q&A

An income statement in which each item expressed as percentage of Sale?

A. Balance sheet
B. income statement
C. common size income statement
D. All of the Above

The compensation paid by the borrower of fund to lender, from the borrower point of the cost of borrowing fund is called?

A. Interest Rate
B. Required rate of return
C. Nominal interest rate
D. All of the above

Period cost include which of the following ?

A. selling Expense
B. Direct labor
C. factory overhead
D. selling Expenses & administrative expenses

The balance of Revaluation Reserve pertaining to an asset that has been disposed off or retired can be transferred to?

A. General Reserve A/c
B. Profit & Loss A/c
C. Asset A/c
D. Capital Reserve A/c

According to AS-10 on disposal of a previously revalued item of fixed asset, the difference between net disposal proceeds and the net book value should be charged or credited to the Profit & Loss Statement except that to the extent that such a loss is related to an increase which was previously recorded as a credit to revaluation reserve and which has not been subsequently reversed or utilized, it may be charged directly to that account. This balance (no longer needeD. being of capital nature should be transferred to Capital Reserve Account.

At the time of preparation of financial accounts, bad debt recovered account will be transferred to?

A. Debtors A/c
B. Profit & Loss A/c
C. Profit & Loss Adjustment A/c
D. Profit & Loss Appropriation A/c

Bad debt recovered is a windfall gain and it is transferred to Profit & Loss Account at the time of preparation of Final Accounts. If provisions account is there in the books it will be transferred to Provision A/c and the balance if any in the provision account will be transferred to Profit & Loss Account. It is recovery of bad debt written off and hence it is not transferred to Debtors Account. It is not transferred to Profit & Loss Adjustment Account. It is not an appropriation to be transferred to Profit & Loss Appropriation Account. Thus, the answer is B

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.