From the previous syllabus. Question 1 asks which document a supplier sends when an invoice was understated. Question 12 asks which item is not a book of prime entry.
Financial Accounting · November 2019
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November 2019 diet
8 objective and 5 theory| No. | Section | Marks | Covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 20 | From the previous syllabus. Asks you to explain the term trial balance (2 marks), to set out four errors that do not ... | |
| Q2 | 20 | From the previous syllabus. Asks for the requirements of IAS 16 on initial recognition (3 marks), the treatment of la... | |
| Q3 | 20 | From the previous syllabus. Asks you to explain the difference between a bank statement and a bank reconciliation sta... | |
| Q5 | 20 | From the previous syllabus. Asks for the sharing of profit where a partner receives commission, a salary and interest... | |
| Q6 | 20 | From the previous syllabus. Asks for the double entries for six disposal events, including sale on credit and sale to... |
Objective questions Section A
From the previous syllabus. Both ask in which record or book a trade discount is recorded.
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Books of prime entry, sales and purchases › Discounts: trade and settlementFrom the previous syllabus. Asks which change in method does not give rise to a change in accounting policy. The answer is the change in depreciation from straight line to the sum-of-digits method, which is a change in estimate.
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IAS 8: accounting policies, estimates and prior-year errors › Accounting estimatesFrom the previous syllabus. Asks the order of the three activity groups, which item may not be classified as investing, and which information a statement of cash flows cannot reveal.
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Statement of cash flows (IAS 7): format and indirect method › The IAS 7 formatFrom the previous syllabus. Asks for current assets and for working capital from given figures.
From the previous syllabus. Gives cash, inventory, receivables and payables of a business and asks for the amount of the current assets and for the working capital.
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The accounting equation and business transactions › The accounting equationLiquidity and gearing ratios and comparative analysis › Liquidity ratiosFrom the previous syllabus. Asks which mistake could explain a trial balance in which the debit side exceeds the credit side by ₦30,000.
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Trial balance: preparation, uses and limitations › The ideas in more depthFrom the previous syllabus. Asks what the excess of expenditure over income is called, where the excess of income over expenditure is added, what represents members’ interest in a club, and what the difference between assets and liabilities of a not-for-profit organisation is called.
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Not-for-profit accounts: receipts and payments, income and expenditure › Not-for-profit organisationsFrom the previous syllabus. Gives partners’ capital contributions, a profit-sharing ratio after salaries and interest on capital, or equal sharing with opening balances, and asks for a partner’s share of profit and the balance on a current account.
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Partnership accounts: profit sharing, capital and current accounts › Sharing the profitTheory questions Written questions
From the previous syllabus. Asks you to explain the term trial balance (2 marks), to set out four errors that do not affect it and four that do in a two-column table (8 marks), and to extract a trial balance from a company’s balances (10 marks).
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Trial balance: preparation, uses and limitations › Limitations: errors the trial balance cannot revealFrom the previous syllabus. Asks for the requirements of IAS 16 on initial recognition (3 marks), the treatment of later spending (3 marks) and a classification of plant costs into capital and revenue (14 marks).
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Property, plant and equipment (IAS 16): cost and the assets register › Capital and revenue expenditure after acquisitionFrom the previous syllabus. Asks you to explain the difference between a bank statement and a bank reconciliation statement (2 marks), then to prepare an adjusted cash book (11 marks) and a reconciliation statement starting from the statement balance (7 marks).
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Bank reconciliation statement and the adjusted cash book › The bank reconciliation statementFrom the previous syllabus. Asks for the sharing of profit where a partner receives commission, a salary and interest on fixed capital, and, in the larger question, the statement of profit or loss and statement of financial position of the partnership.
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Partnership accounts: profit sharing, capital and current accounts › Profits, drawings and current accountsFrom the previous syllabus. Asks for the double entries for six disposal events, including sale on credit and sale to staff (7 marks), then the plant, provision for depreciation and plant disposal accounts for three plants (13 marks).