JAMB Accounting Past QuestionsBy Acadlly 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 Capital reserves includes the following except general reserves revaluation surplus share premium pre-incoporation profit 2 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Use the following information to answer this question.Club building 400,000Subscription prepaid 3,000Sport kits 150,000Bar creditors 85,000Subscription owing 32,000What is the club’s total liabilities N88, 000 N26, 700 N85, 000 N11, 700 3 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Which of the following is not a feature of accounting information? timeliness affordability accuracy completeness 4 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The process of cost apportionment is carried out so that variable costs may be controlled cost units could gather overhead as they pass through cost centres indirect costs may be controlled common costs are shared among cost centres 5 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION In a bank reconciliation statement, Dishonoured cheques is added to statement of account aggregate balanace as per cash book uncredited cheques unpresented cheques 6 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The purpose of a trading account is to ascertain net profit or loss gross profit or loss sales carriage outwards 7 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION An entry in a subsidiary book which does not form part of the double entry system is a journal entry single entry contra entry memorandum entry 8 / 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? bank signatories powers of directors objects and their alteration location of business 9 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Which of the following is not a proper form of the accounting equation fixed assests + current assests + liabilities = capital fixed asset + current asset – capital = liabilities fixed assets – liabilities + current assets = capital fixed assets + current assets - liabilities = capital 10 / 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 --------------------- cost accounting accounting policies accounting conventions financial accounting 11 / 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. N8950 N8050 N7050 N7950 12 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION What is the ledger entry for sale of generator on credit to Patrick? credit sales account and debit cash account credit sales account and debit Patrick’s account credit generator account and debit Patrick’s account credit generator account and debit cash account 13 / 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 Going concern Accrual Materiality Business entity 14 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION An advantage of using accounting ratios is that can be easily calculated are stipulated by law facilitate decision making show errors and frauds 15 / 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 accounts and credit bad debt recovered account debit debtors accounts and recovered account debit bad debts account and credit profit and loss account 16 / 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 marching prudency consistency realization 17 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Which of the following is shown in the profit and loss appropriation account of a company directors emoluments interest charges depreciation dividends 18 / 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 N14,000 N17,000 N13,000 N16,000 19 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION To realize an asset means to give it out as a collateral turn it to cash open its account in the ledger mortgage it 20 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The following account are prepared when goods are sent to branch except Branch adjustment account Branch stock Branch debtors account Goods set to branch account 21 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Preliminary expenses is an example of liquid assets tangible assets wasting assets fictitious assets 22 / 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? N699, 000 N605, 000 N402, 000 N641, 000 23 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION What does liquidity ratio measure? measures the value of investments of a company measures the financial leverage of a company measures operating efficiency of a company measures the ability of a company to meet its current obligations 24 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The ledger entries to be made if cash sales is banked is debit cash, credit sales sales, credit cash bank, credit cash bank, credit sales 25 / 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 N2, 800 N2, 500 N3, 000 26 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Which method of pricing can be used satisfactorily in either rising or falling price situation? FIFO Standard price Average method Market price 27 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Goods stolen at the branch is debited to defalcations account branch adjustment account branch stock account branch debtors account 28 / 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? N49, 500 N48, 000 N19, 800 N29, 700 29 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Keeping records under single entry system has the advantage of Quality in terms of records Completeness in terms of records Simplicity in terms of operation Accuracy in terms of operation 30 / 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 ------------------------------ provisions depreciation appreciation amortization 31 / 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 N0.60 N2 N0.50 N0.80 32 / 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 Appropriation A/C Drawing A/C Creditor A/C Capital A/C 33 / 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 in proportion of weighted average of capital equally in accordance with an established in proportion of current account balances 34 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION If a trail balance is in agreement, one of the statement is untrue account balances were correctly computed equal debit entries and credit entries were recorded for each transaction the debit and credit from the journal were posted to the accounts the accounting system is error free 35 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The basis of accounting for public sector is cost basis accrual basis revenue basis cash basis 36 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION The loss made by a non profit making organization is called surplus shortage discount deficit 37 / 40 Category: JAMB ACCOUNT PAST QUESTION Sales ledger control account contains the total amount in respect of debtors creditors investors shareholders 38 / 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 39 / 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? N8, 45 N2, 450 N1, 605 N1, 300 40 / 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 dual aspect going concern business entity NameEmail Your score is LinkedIn Facebook VKontakte 0% Restart quiz Send feedback