1. [单选题]14 Alpha buys goods from Beta. At 30 June 2005 Beta’s account in Alpha’s records showed $5,700 owing to Beta.
Beta submitted a statement to Alpha as at the same date showing a balance due of $5,200. Which of the following could account fully for the difference?
A. Alpha has sent a cheque to Beta for $500 which has not yet been received by Beta.
B. The credit side of Beta’s account in Alpha’s records has been undercast by $500.
C. An invoice for $250 from Beta has been treated in Alpha’s records as if it had been a credit note.
D. Beta has issued a credit note for $500 to Alpha which Alpha has not yet received.
2. [单选题]10 Which of the following costs should be included in valuing inventories of finished goods held by a manufacturing
company, according to IAS2 Inventories? 1 Carriage inwards. 2 Carriage outwards. 3 Depreciation of factory plant. 4 Accounts department costs relating to wages for production employees.
A. All four items
B. 2 and 3 only
C. 1, 3 and 4 only
D. 1 and 4 only
3. [单选题]15 A trader who fixes her prices by adding 50% to cost actually achieved a mark-up of 45%.
Which of the following factors could account for the shortfall? 1 Sales were lower than expected. 2 The opening inventories had been overstated. 3 The closing inventories of the business were higher than the opening inventories. 4 Goods taken from inventories by the proprietor were recorded by debiting drawings and crediting purchases with the cost of the goods.
A. All four factors
B. 1, 2 and 4 only
C. 2 only
D. 3 and 4 only
4. [单选题]5 An enterprise has made a material change to an accounting policy in preparing its current financial statements.
Which of the following disclosures are required by IAS 8 Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors in these financial statements? 1 The reasons for the change. 2 The amount of the consequent adjustment in the current period and in comparative information for prior periods. 3 An estimate of the effect of the change on future periods, where possible.
A. 1 and 2 only
B. 1 and 3 only
C. 2 and 3 only
D. All three items
5. [单选题]2 Which of the following are correct?
1. The balance sheet value of inventory should be as close as possible to net realisable value. 2. The valuation of finished goods inventory must include production overheads. 3. Production overheads included in valuing inventory should be calculated by reference to the company’s normal level of production during the period. 4. In assessing net realisable value, inventory items must be considered separately, or in groups of similar items, not by taking the inventory value as a whole.
A. 1 and 2 only
B. 3 and 4 only
C. 1 and 3 only
D. 2, 3 and 4
