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Goods worth Rs. 10,000 were withdrawn by the proprietor for his personal use. The account to be credited is ___________.

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  1. Sales A/c

  2. Drawing A/c

  3. Purchases A/c

  4. Expenses A/c

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

When the proprietor withdraws goods for personal use of Rs 10,000 it should be credited/deducted from the stock while calculating cost of goods sold and hence are deducted from purchases.  

Goods given as samples should be credited to ______________.

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  1. Advertisement A/c

  2. Sales A/c

  3. Purchases A/c

  4. Closing stock A/c

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Goods given out as samples should be credited to purchases account and not to sales account, because goods are moving out of the organisation. But there is no inflow of cash because samples are distributed free of cost. Distribution of samples can be for boosting the sales of the company.

Which store accounting system involves use of market price or stock at cost, whichever is less?

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  1. Standard cost system

  2. Average cost system

  3. Costing the closing stock

  4. Market value system

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Correct Option: C

EOQ determines the order size when ______________.

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  1. Total order cost is minimum

  2. Total number of order is least

  3. Total inventory cost is minimum

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Economic Order Quantity is the optimum quantity of goods that a firm may order in one time to minimize the annual cost of ordering and inventory carrying cost.

EOQ is based on certain assumptions:
a) Annual Demand 
b) Ordering Cost
c) Carrying cost 

Changing the value of closing stock from cost to expected selling price might be an application of which accounting concept?

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  1. Going Concern

  2. Prudence

  3. Historical cost

  4. Consistency

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Correct Option: B

Which method of inventory valuation is most widely used in accounting?

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  1. Cost price

  2. Market price

  3. Cost or market price whichever is greater

  4. Cost or market price whichever is lower

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Conservatism concept defines that all future losses should be recorded in books of account. Stock is normally valued at cost or market value whichever is lower.

Which of the following is true for a company which continuous reviews its inventory system?

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  1. Order Interval is fixed

  2. Order Interval varies

  3. Order Quantity is fixed

  4. Both A and C

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Continuous inventory system or perpetual inventory system of inventory describes the system of inventory where information of inventory quantity with the availability is monitored on a regular basis.

As inventory ordering is also based on the availability of stock, order intervals may change because of the perpetual inventory system.

Which inventory price method assumes that the goods most recently purchased are sold first?

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  1. FIFO

  2. Specific identifications

  3. Weighted average

  4. LIFO

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In the LIFO method, Inventory which is purchased recently is issued first.  It is called last in first out. 

Available closing stock will have the stock of older items with older price. 

Under FIFO method, the materials issued are priced at ___________.

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  1. latest purchases

  2. oldest purchases

  3. average cost of purchases

  4. next purchases

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Under the FIFO (First in First Out ) method, stock is issued to the production on the basis of its receipt. Stock which has procurred first is issued first and so on. 

In such case, stock issued are priced at oldest purchases. Latest stock will be available as closing inventory. 

A's trial balance provides you the following information: Bad debts Rs.1,000. It is desired to maintain a provision for bad debts at Rs. 2,000. Amount debited to profit and loss a/c will be_________.

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  1. Rs. 1,000

  2. Rs. 3,000

  3. Rs. 4,000

  4. Rs. 2,000

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Amount to be debited to P & L A/c = Bad debts + new provision 
                                                           = RS-1,000 + RS-2,000
                                                           = RS-3,000.