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Normally, the following accounts are balanced _________________.

commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. Personal accounts and nominal accounts.

  2. Real accounts and nominal accounts.

  3. Personal accounts and real accounts.

  4. All accounts.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Normally the Personal account and Real account are balanced. Only accounts relating to assets and liabilities ,that is real account and personal accounts are balanced periodically.

Ram's account is related to ___________.

commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. Personal account

  2. Nominal account

  3. Real account

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A personal account is an account for use by an individual for that person's own needs. It is a relative term to differentiate them from those accounts for business or corporate use.

Ram's A/c is a personal A/c.

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

List I(Name of the account List II(Nature of the account)
A. Bank Loan A/c 1. Personal
B. Bills Receivable A/c 2. Nominal
C. Capital A/c 3. Real
D. Purchases A/c
commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. $A = 1, B = 1, C = 1, D = 2$

  2. $A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 3$

  3. $A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 1$

  4. $A = 2, B = 1, C = 2, D = 1$

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

From the fundamentals of accountancy: 

  • Bank loan accounts for customer is personal account.
  • B/R and B/P are not assets because they are not yet acquired as like Plant, building etc. They are yet to be en cashed. Asset means which has been acquired and has some value. Hence, Bills Receivable and Bills Payable are Representative Personal A/cs.
  • Capital account is a personal account. because capital account is related to owner personal capital and that why this is treated in the liabilities side of balance sheet.
  • Purchase - a real or nominal account. Purchased goods are initially treated as cost of goods which will be sold during the year. It is only at the end of the year we make an adjustment for the goods which remain unsold, i.e. closing stock.

The basic rule of book-keeping "Debit all expenses and losses and credit all gains and incomes" is applicable to _________.

commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. Personal account

  2. Real account

  3. Nominal account

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Accounts relating to income, revenue, gain, expenses and losses are termed as nominal accounts. These accounts are also known as fictitious accounts as they do not represent any tangible asset. A separate account is maintained for each head or expense or loss and gain or income. Wages account, Rent account, Commission account, Interest received accounts are some examples of nominal account. 

The rule for Nominal accounts is: Debit all expenses and losses; Credit all incomes and gains.

At the end of the accounting year all the nominal accounts of the ledger book are _________________________.

commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. Balanced but not transferred to profit and loss account

  2. Not balanced and also the balance is not transferred to the profit and loss account

  3. Balanced and the balance is transferred to the balance sheet

  4. Not balanced and transferred to the profit and loss account.

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Correct Option: D

Outstanding wages is an example of __________.

commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. Personal A/c

  2. Real A/c

  3. Nominal A/c

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Examples of nominal accounts are Purchase A/c, Sales A/c, Salary A/c etc. 

Outstanding wages is classified as a personal account and not a nominal account. This account represents the accounts of all those persons to whom wages have not been paid and hence, are outstanding.

While preparing the Annual Financial Statements, the balance of Prepaid Rend Account should be treated as the balance of a __________. 

commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. personal Account

  2. real Account

  3. nominal Account

  4. deferred Expenditure Account

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Correct Option: A

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

List I List II
A. Rent prepaid and prepaid Insurance 1. Nominal accounts
B. Goodwill and patents 2. Real accounts
C. Rent, Interest 3. Personal accounts
commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. $A = 3, B = 2, C = 1$

  2. $A = 1, B = 2, C = 3$

  3. $A = 2, B = 1, C = 3$

  4. $A = 2, B = 3, C = 1$

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

  • Prepaid expenses are recorded in the books at the end of an accounting period to show true numbers of a business. Prepaid (unexpired) expense is a personal account and is shown on the Assets side of a balance sheet.
  •  Real account - All assets of a firm, whether tangible or intangible, fall under the category “Real Accounts“. 
Examples of intangible real accounts are goodwill, patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc. 
  • Nominal account - Accounts which are related to expenses, losses, incomes and gains are called Nominal accounts.These accounts types are related to income or gains and expenses or losses. 
  • For example: – Rent A/c, commission received A/c, salary A/c, wages A/c, conveyance A/c, etc.

Joint Venture A/c is ______________.

commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. Personal A/c

  2. Nominal A/c

  3. Suspense A/c

  4. Real A/c

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A joint venture is an arrangement in which two or more parties agree to pool their resources for the purpose of a specific task or transaction. 

In a joint venture, each of the members is responsible for profits, losses and costs associated with it.

It is a Nominal Account.

Salary paid to Ram will be debited to Ram's Personal account.

commercial applications accounting procedures - rules of debit and credit golden rules of debit and credit (traditional approach) types of account meaning and classification of accounts

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Salary paid to Ram will be debited to salary A/c instead of Ram's Personal A/c. The correct Journal Entry is
Salary A/C                 Dr.
To Cash A/c
(Being salary paid to Ram)