[单选题]25 What should the minority interest figure be in the group’s consolidated balance sheet at 31 December 2005?

正确答案 ：A

$240,000

解析：20% x (400,000 + 800,000)

[单选题]In 2014 Mr Yuan inherited an estate of RMB2 million from his uncle who had died two months earlier.

正确答案 ：B

The estate income is not taxable

[单选题]8 Which of the following statements about accounting concepts and conventions are correct?

(1) The money measurement concept requires all assets and liabilities to be accounted for at historical cost. (2) The substance over form. convention means that the economic substance of a transaction should be reflected in the financial statements, not necessarily its legal form. (3) The realisation concept means that profits or gains cannot normally be recognised in the income statement until realised. (4) The application of the prudence concept means that assets must be understated and liabilities must be overstated in preparing financial statements.

正确答案 ：B

2 and 3

[单选题]16 Which of the following statements about accounting concepts and conventions are correct?

(1) The entity concept requires that a business is treated as being separate from its owners. (2) The use of historical cost accounting tends to understate assets and profit when prices are rising. (3) The prudence concept means that the lowest possible values should be applied to income and assets and the highest possible values to expenses and liabilities. (4) The money measurement concept means that only assets capable of being reliably measured in monetary terms can be included in the balance sheet of a business.

正确答案 ：D

1 and 4

[单选题]23 The capital structure of a company at 30 June 2005 is as follows:

$m Ordinary share capital 100 Share premium account 40 Retained earnings 60 10% Loan notes 40 The company’s income statement for the year ended 30 June 2005 showed: $m Operating profit 44 Loan note interest (4) ___ Profit for year 40 ____ What is the company’s return on capital employed?

正确答案 ：C

44/240 = 181/3 per cent

[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.

正确答案 ：A

1 and 2 only

[单选题]15 Which of the following statements about intangible assets are correct?

1 If certain criteria are met, research expenditure must be recognised as an intangible asset. 2 Goodwill may not be revalued upwards. 3 Internally generated goodwill should not be capitalised.

正确答案 ：A

2 and 3 only

[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.

正确答案 ：C

2 only

[单选题]A company predicted that the learning rate for production of a new product would be 80%. The actual learning rate was 75%. The following possible reasons were stated for this:

正确答案 ：G

(i) only

解析：

The learning rate was actually better than expected and only (i) could cause it to improve.

[单选题]Faithful representation is a fundamental characteristic of useful information within the IASB’s Conceptual framework for financial reporting.

正确答案 ：E

Allocating part of the sales proceeds of a motor vehicle to interest received even though it was sold with 0% (interest free) finance

解析：

The substance is that there is no ‘free’ finance; its cost, as such, is built into the selling price.

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