INTACC - Multiple Choice Flashcards
- Which of the following is considered as an income?
a. Discount on Notes Receivable
b. Unearned Interest Income
c. Deferred Revenue
d. None of these
d. None of these
- Which of the following adjusting entries may a reversing entry be used?
a. Debit insurance expense, credit prepaid insurance
b. Debit interest receivable, credit interest income
c. Debit unearned rental income, credit rental income
d. Debit depreciation expense, credit accumulated depreciation
b. Debit interest receivable, credit interest income
- Issuing accounting standards is the responsibility of the
a. PICPA
b. FRSC
c. AASC
d. CPE Council
b. FRSC
- These are the principal means through which an entity communicates its financial information to those outside it.
a. Managerial reports
b. Segment reports
c. Financial statement
d. Directors’ statements
c. Financial statement
- Which of the following is not among the economic resources of a business enterprise?
a. Money
b. Products or output of the enterprise
c. Obligations to pay money
d. Ownership interests in other enterprises
c. Obligations to pay money
- An accounting (financial reporting) period may be
a. One month
b. one quarter
c. one year
d. a, b or c
d. a, b or c
- A business entity produces financial statements at arbitrary points in time with which basic accounting concept?
a. Objectivity
b. Periodicity
c. Conservatism
d. Matching
b. Periodicity
- Comparability is sometimes sacrificed for
a. Reliability
b. Conservatism
c. Objectivity
d. Relevance
d. Relevance
- One of the fundamental qualitative characteristics of financial statements is
a. Relevance
b. Timeliness
c. Neutrality
d. Completeness
a. Relevance
- The valuation basis used in conventional financial statements is
a. Replacement Cost
b. Fair Value
c. Original Cost
d. A mixture of cost and value
d. A mixture of cost and value
- They are interested in information that enables them to determine whether their loans, and the interest attaching to them, will be paid when due.
a. Investors
b. lenders
c. suppliers
d. public
b. lenders
- Who has the primary responsibility for the preparation and presentation of the financial statements of
an entity?
a. Shareholders
b. board of directors
c. management
d. accountant
c. management
- This information is useful in assessing an entity’s investing, financing and operating activities during the reporting period
a. Economic resources
b. Financial structure
c. Cash Flow
d. Performance
c. Cash Flow
- A systematic compilation of a group of accounts; also called a “book of secondary entry”
a. Trial balance
b. ledger
c. worksheet
d. journal
b. ledger
- The appropriate book of account in which the receipt of a cash dividend is recorded
a. cash receipts journal
b. Sales journal
c. Purchases journal
d. general journal
a. cash receipts journal
- The normal balance of any account is the
a. Left side
b. Right side
c. side which increases that account
d. side which decreases that account
c. side which increases that account
- It is the difference between the debit and the credit side of a T account.
a. Normal balance
b. discount
c. account balance
d. a and c
c. account balance
- The effect of the closing entries is to:
a. Change assets
b. Change liabilities
c. Change retained earnings
d. Change the debit balances of all accounts into credits and vice versa
c. Change retained earnings