Accounting mcqs

✅ The correct answer is D.
Trial Balance is not a financial statement. Trial Balance is a list of closing balances of ledger accounts on a certain date and is the first step towards the preparation of financial statements. It is usually prepared at the end of an accounting period to assist in the drafting of financial statements.

✅ The correct answer is B.
Declared dividend should be classified in the balance sheet as a Current liability. Dividends payable are dividends that a company’s board of directors has declared to be payable to its shareholders. Until such time as the company actually pays the shareholders, the cash amount of the dividend is recorded within a dividends payable account as a current liability.

✅ The correct answer is A.
Office equipment account will be credited when a typewriter is sold that has been used in the office.

✅ The correct answer is D.
The trade discount on purchases are not all recorded in the books. Trade discount is not separately shown in the books of accounts, and all amounts recorded in a purchases or sales book are done in the net amount only.

✅ The correct answer is D.
Trust is non-profit organization. A nonprofit organization is a business that has been granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) because it furthers a social cause and provides a public benefit.

✅ The correct answer is B.
Provision for doubtful debts account is an Contra asset account. It is used along with the account Accounts Receivable in order for the balance sheet to report the net realizable value of the company’s accounts receivable.

✅ The correct answer is B.
“Treating a revenue expenditure as a capital expenditure” is an example of Error of principle. An error of principle is an accounting mistake in which an entry is recorded in the incorrect account, violating the fundamental principles of accounting. An error of principle is a procedural error, meaning that the value recorded was the correct value but placed incorrectly.

✅ The correct answer is A.
The cost of a small calculator is treated as an expense and not shown as an asset in a financial statement of a business entity due to Materiality concept. The materiality concept refers to a situation where the financial information of a company is considered to be material from the point of view of the preparation of the financial statements if it has the potential to alter the view or opinion of a reasonable person.

✅ The correct answer is C.
Stock of raw materials is the odd one out. Raw materials inventory is the total cost of all component parts currently in stock that have not yet been used in work-in-process or finished goods production. There are two subcategories of raw materials, which are: Direct materials.

✅ The correct answer is D.
A cash book that is used to record the small payments of cash is generally referred to as Petty cash book. Petty cash book can be expressed as a formal summarization of the petty cash expenditures which refers to the day-to-day normal expenditures of the business which is not related to the direct line of the business.