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]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
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]19 At 30 June 2004 a company’s allowance for receivables was $39,000. At 30 June 2005 trade receivables totalled $517,000. It was decided to write off debts totalling $37,000 and to adjust the allowance for receivables to the equivalent of 5 per cent of the trade receivables based on past events.
What figure should appear in the income statement for these items?
A. $61,000
B. $22,000
C. $24,000
D. $23,850
5. [单选题]24 What figure should appear in the consolidated balance sheet of the J group as at 31 December 2004 for minority
interest?
A. $32,000
B. $16,000
C. $10,000
D. $24,000
6. [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
7. [单选题]16 Which of the following events between the balance sheet date and the date the financial statements are
authorised for issue must be adjusted in the financial statements? 1 Declaration of equity dividends. 2 Decline in market value of investments. 3 The announcement of changes in tax rates. 4 The announcement of a major restructuring.
A. 1
B. 1 only
C. 2 and 4
D. 3 only
E. None of them
8. [单选题]A corporate taxpayer has under-reported its taxable revenue in 2002 and hence underpaid value added tax (VAT) and enterprise income tax (EIT). In 2014, the taxpayer was charged by the tax authority with committing an act of tax evasion in 2002.
A. Which of the following statements is correct?
B. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes due, plus a late payment surcharge and a penalty
C. There is no need for the taxpayer to pay any additional taxes, late payment surcharge or penalty as the statute of limitation is ten years
D. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes, but no late payment surcharge or penalty as the statute of limitation is ten years for late payment surcharge and penalties
E. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes and a late payment surcharge but not a penalty as the statute of limitation is five years for penalties
9. [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
10. [单选题]Is the following statement true or false?
B. True
C. False
