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. Profit and loss account

  2. Profit and loss adjustment account

  3. Profit and loss appropriation account

  4. Respective nominal account

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

When any nominal account is affected because of any error, it will affect the profilt, so after prepration of profit and loss account,  we can adjust the profit,  with the profit and loss adjustment account.

Multiple choice
  1. <span style="">current asset

  2. current liability

  3. <span style="">investment<span style="">

  4. <span style="">secured loan

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

Income received in advance is a current liability because you need to pay for this advance amount in the future.

Multiple choice
  1. liquidity

  2. profitability

  3. stability

  4. consistency

  5. financial position

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

A key factor (or limiting factor) is a constraint that limits the volume of production or sales. Identifying this factor helps management prioritize products that offer the highest contribution per unit of that limiting factor, thus maximizing profitability.

Multiple choice
  1. sales value

  2. other income

  3. market value

  4. cost price

  5. none of these

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

When the sale value of a by-product is treated as other income, it is credited directly to the profit and loss account rather than being used to reduce the cost of the main product.

Multiple choice
  1. real

  2. personal

  3. representative personal

  4. nominal

  5. none of these

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

General ledger adjustment accounts are used to maintain control over subsidiary ledgers. They represent the total of the individual accounts within those ledgers, which are personal accounts (debtors or creditors).

Multiple choice
  1. stock ledger

  2. stock ledger control account

  3. stock register

  4. stock ledger adjustment

  5. none of these

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

The stock ledger control account is a summary account in the general ledger that represents the total value of all individual stock items recorded in the subsidiary stock ledger.