Accounting Past Questions

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Question 21
jamb 1997
Which of the following demonstrates the imprest system?
AFloat → expenses paid → cash in bank → float
BFloat → cash from bank → expenses paid → float
CFloat → expenses paid→ cash from bank → float
DFloat → cash in bank → expenses paid → float
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Question 22
jamb 1997
Erroneous rearrangement of financial figures such as writing N624 as N 264 is called
Atransposition
Bprinciple
Ccommission
Domission
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Question 23
jamb 1997
The term 'posting' in Accounting refers to
Arecording entries in the journal
Btransferring the balance in the ledger to the trial balance
Ctracing amounts from the journal to the ledger to find errors
Dtransferring entries to the ledger from the journal
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Question 24
jamb 1997
Books of original entry are used for
Arecording business transactions
Bthe adjustment of accounts
Creminding the book keeping to post transactions in the ledger
Dinforming the bookkeeper about the state of affairs
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Question 25
jamb 1997
The effect of the payment of liability is that it
Aincrease both assets and liabilities
Bincrease assets and decrease liabilities
Cdecrease assets and increase liabilities
Ddecrease both assets and liabilities
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Question 26
jamb 1997
The document that is used to acknowledge the acceptance of the return of goods by the seller from the buyer is known as
Acredit note
Bdebit note
Cinvoice
Dvoucher
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Question 27
jamb 1997
The instrument that are generated when firms enter into business transactions with others are called
Apurchase document
Bjournals
Csource documents
Dinvoices
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Question 28
jamb 1997
Creditors use Accounting information for the purpose of
Aplanning sales to a company
Bcontrolling a company's affairs
Cinvesting in a company
Dassessing a company's liquidity
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Question 29
jamb 1997
In preparing accounting records, the owner of a business and the business are treated as
Athe same person
Bhaving business relationship
Cseparate legal entities
Dpartners
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Question 30
jamb 1997
The most important reason for studying accounting is that
Athe information provided by accounting is useful in making decision
BAccounting plays an important role in the society
Cthe study of Accounting leads to challeging career
DAccounting provides gross profit information
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