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 commercial studies budgeting meaning, comparison, types, utility and limitations of budgets public finance, budget and fiscal policy public expenditure and public revenue

__________ shows the anticipated sources and utilisation of cash.

  1. Master budget

  2. Cash budget

  3. Sales budget

  4. Flexible budget
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 A cash budget itemizes the projected sources and uses of cash in a future period. 

The Sources of Cash section contains the beginning cash balance, as well as cash receipts from cash sales, accounts receivable collections, and the sale of assets.

Multiple choice commercial studies budgeting meaning, comparison, types, utility and limitations of budgets public finance, budget and fiscal policy public expenditure and public revenue

A budget is frequently prepared to combine all other budgets in a summary form. It is known as _____________.

  1. Sales Budget

  2. Purchase Budget

  3. Cash Budget

  4. Master Budget
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The master budget is the sum total of all the divisional budgets that is prepared by all the divisions. Further, it also includes the financial planning, cash-flow forecast and budgeted profit and loss account and balance sheet of the organization. 


Master Budget is the summary of the divisional budget.

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

When a firm maintains a cash book, it need not maintain _______________.

  1. Journal Proper

  2. Purchase(journal)book

  3. Sales(journal)book

  4. Bank and cash account in the ledger
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

When a firm maintains a cashbook,  it does not need to maintain Separate Bank and cash account in the ledger.

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

The prime entry for the acquisition of a cash book, ledgers and a journal for Rs 240 from X Ltd. on credit would be in the:

  1. Journal

  2. purchases Day Book

  3. Cash Book

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Transactions that do not fit into specialized journals (like cash books or purchase day books) are recorded in the Journal Proper. Since this involves multiple items (cash book, ledgers, journal) being acquired on credit, it is a non-routine transaction recorded in the general journal.

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

The journal entry to account for the acquisition on credit of factory machinery from Millet plc should require which of the following:

  1. Debit Factory account and credit Millet plc account

  2. Debit Machinery account and credit Millet plc account

  3. Debit Millet plc account and credit Machinery account

  4. Debit Machinery account and credit Cash account
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

When purchasing machinery on credit, the asset (Machinery) is debited to increase it, and the liability (Millet plc) is credited to record the amount owed.

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

An office equipment bought on credit would first be entered by the purchaser in the ________________.

  1. Returns Outward Book.

  2. Purchase Day Book.

  3. Journal Proper.

  4. Sales Day Book returns Inward Book.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Purchase Day Book is only for credit purchases of inventory (goods for resale). Office equipment is a fixed asset, so its credit purchase is recorded in the Journal Proper.

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

Credit sale of various assets or investments will be recorded in ____________.

  1. General Jounal

  2. Sales Book

  3. Cash Book

  4. Purchase Book
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Sales Book is reserved for credit sales of inventory (goods). Credit sales of assets or investments are recorded in the General Journal (Journal Proper).

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

_______ is a book in which all the business transactions are originally recorded in chronological order and from which then are posted to the ledger accounts at any convenient time. 

  1. Ledger

  2. Journal

  3. Purchases return books

  4. Sales book
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The journal is the book of original entry where transactions are recorded in chronological order before being posted to the ledger.

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

When fixed assets or stationeries are purchased on credit, the entries are passed in the _____________.

  1. General journal

  2. Purchase day book

  3. Purchase account

  4. Any of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Purchase Day Books are only for credit purchases of inventory. Credit purchases of fixed assets or stationery are recorded in the General Journal.

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

Credit purchase of plant and machinery is recorded in which of the following specialized journals?

  1. General Journal

  2. Cash Journal

  3. Purchase Journal

  4. Purchase return Journal
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Specialized purchase journals are for inventory. Plant and machinery are fixed assets, so their credit purchase is recorded in the General Journal.

Multiple choice elements of accounts accounting in business journal - book of original entry purchases and sales book meaning and importance of journal

A subsidiary book which is used to record all those business transactions which do not find any place in the purchase book, sales book, return books, cash book, bills receivable and payable book, etc. is called journal proper..

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Journal proper is book of original entry (simple journal) in which miscellaneous credit transactions which do not fit in any other books are recorded. It is also called miscellaneous journal. The form and procedure for maintaining this journal is the same that of simple journal.