Commerce Accountancy

Accounting Principles and Practices

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Accounting principles and practices involve the preparation of trial balances, ledgers, and bank reconciliation statements. This area tests your knowledge of fundamental accounting concepts and routine business transactions. It is a core section in commerce exams and various competitive tests.

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Accounting Principles and Practices Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Subscribed capital

  2. Acceptance and endorsements

  3. Money at call and short notice

  4. Bills for collection

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In a bank's balance sheet, assets include items that the bank owns or is owed - cash, loans, investments. 'Money at call and short notice' refers to funds the bank has lent to other banks for very short periods (overnight or up to 14 days), which are assets for the lending bank. Options A (subscribed capital), B (acceptances and endorsements), and D (bills for collection) are all liability-side items - they represent obligations or amounts owed by the bank.

Multiple choice
  1. Alt + 2

  2. Alt + D

  3. Alt + R

  4. Alt + X

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

We must press Alt + 2. To create the voucher of the same type means creation of a duplicate voucher. For duplicating a voucher that is creating the voucher of the same type, we must press Alt + 2.

Multiple choice
  1. Company Alteration Screen

  2. Company Creation Screen

  3. Ledger Alteration Screen

  4. Split Company Data Screen

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

We have to press Alt + D to delete the company when the company alteration screen is opened. Press F3 for the company information. We have to select alter, then the name of the company then press Alt + D, if we want to delete. A confirmation for deletion is asked, Yes or No is asked. Press Y, if we want to delete.

Multiple choice
  1. Gateway of Tally > Accounting Voucher > Click F5

  2. Gateway of Tally > Accounting Voucher > Click F10

  3. Gateway of Tally > Accounting Voucher > Click F6

  4. Gateway of Tally > Accounting Voucher > Click F4

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct procedure to get to the reversing journal voucher screen. First, go to Gateway of Tally and select Accounting Voucher. Then, click F10 whereupon the reversing journal screen will appear.

Multiple choice
  1. Financial statements which are made and presented for an accounting period of more than one year.

  2. Financial statements, which are made and presented for an accounting period of less than one year.

  3. Financial statements, which are made and presented for an a day.

  4. Financial statements, which are made and presented for an accounting period of one year.

  5. None of the above is correct

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Interim financial statements refer to profit and loss account and balance sheet,  which are made and presented  for an accounting period of less than one year, such as quarterly or monthly. Interim financial statements are normally  prepared after every three months. For accurate interim financial statements, accountant should evaluate inventory correctly and also reconcile the bank balance with company's record.

Multiple choice
  1. Earning before Interest, Tax and Depreciation and Amortization

  2. Earnings before Tax, Deposits and Appreciation

  3. Earning before Interest, Terms, Deposits and Amounts

  4. Earning before Interest, Tax and Deposits, Agriculture

  5. None of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Yes it is correct choice.

Yes EBITDA stands forEarning before Interest , Tax and Depreciation and amortization . 

Multiple choice
  1. Capital Reserve Journal and Capital Properties Journal

  2. Credit Reserve Journal and Credit payment journal

  3. Current Revenue Journal and Current Payment Journal

  4. Cash Receipt Journal and Cash Payment Journal

  5. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

CRJ means cash receipt journal. In CRJ, we record only cash receipts. There are lots of sources of receiving cash, so we can make different columns in this journal. CPJ means cash payment journal. In CPJ, we record only cash payments. These payments are done for creditors, repayment of loans and other expenses. For knowing how much payment has been done, we show the different columns.

Multiple choice
  1. Financial statements which are made and presented for an accounting period of more than one year.

  2. Financial statements, which are made and presented for an accounting period of less than one year.

  3. Financial statements, which are made and presented for an a day.

  4. Financial statements, which are made and presented for an accounting period of one year.

  5. None of the above is correct

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Interim financial statements refer to profit and loss account and balance sheet, which are made and presented for an accounting period of less than one year, such as quarterly or monthly. Interim financial statements are normally prepared after every three months. For accurate interim financial statements, accountant should evaluate inventory correctly and also reconcile the bank balance with company's record.

Multiple choice
  1. total accounts

  2. adjustment account

  3. holding account

  4. suspense account

  5. none of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

It is  a General ledger account whose balance reflects the total of balances of related subsidiary ledger accounts. Accounts receivable and accounts payable are the most commonly used control accounts, and their balances serve as a crosscheck (control) of the accuracy of the associated subsidiary records.

Multiple choice
  1. It is to classify the transactions

  2. It is to classify the accounts on the basis of nature of company.

  3. It is to classify the accounts on the basis of different ledgers.

  4. It is to classify the accounts on the basis of billing or due date.

  5. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

AGING OF ACCOUNTS is the classification of accounts by the time elapsed after the date of billing or the due date. The longer a customers account remains uncollected or the longer inventory is held, the greater is its realization risk. Aging of accounts is the technique to classify accounts according to billing or due date. In this classification, we get the idea to whom, we have to get first and to whom, we have to pay first.