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]The following statements have been made about life cycle costing:
A. (i) It focuses on the short-term by identifying costs at the beginning of a product’s life cycle
B. (ii) It identifies all costs which arise in relation to the product each year and then calculates the product’s profitability on an annual basis
C. (iii) It accumulates a product’s costs over its whole life time and works out the overall profitability of a product
D. (iv) It allocates costs to each stage of a product’s life cycle and writes them off at the end of each stage
E. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
F. (i) and (iii)
G. (iii) only
H. (i) and (iv)
I. (ii) only
3. [单选题]17 A business income statement for the year ended 31 December 2004 showed a net profit of $83,600. It was later
found that $18,000 paid for the purchase of a motor van had been debited to motor expenses account. It is the company’s policy to depreciate motor vans at 25 per cent per year, with a full year’s charge in the year of acquisition. What would the net profit be after adjusting for this error?
A. $106,100
B. $70,100
C. $97,100
D. $101,600
4. [单选题]Faithful representation is a fundamental characteristic of useful information within the IASB’s Conceptual framework for financial reporting.
A. Which of the following accounting treatments correctly applies the principle of faithful representation?
B. Reporting a transaction based on its legal status rather than its economic substance
C. Excluding a subsidiary from consolidation because its activities are not compatible with those of the rest of the group
D. Recording the whole of the net proceeds from the issue of a loan note which is potentially convertible to equity shares as debt (liability)
E. Allocating part of the sales proceeds of a motor vehicle to interest received even though it was sold with 0% (interest free) finance
5. [单选题]13 Which of the following correctly describes the imprest system for operating petty cash?
A. A
B. All expenditure out of petty cash must be supported by a properly authorised voucher.
C. A regular equal amount of cash is transferred into petty cash.
D. The exact amount of expenditure out of petty cash is reimbursed at intervals.
E. A budget is fixed for a period which petty cash expenditure must not exceed.
