Jamb Accounting Past Questions For Year 1999

Question 36

Capital and revenue expenditures of government are usually accounted for under funds which include?

jamb 1999

  • A. A personal advances, technical, special trust and
  • B. technical, special trusth and commercial funds
  • C. personal advances, treasury clearance and special trusth funds
  • D. commercial loans and treasury clearance funds
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Question 37

What is the correct entry in the head office books at the point of initial transfer of the goods?

jamb 1999

  • A. Branch stock account would be credited with
  • B. Branch stock account would be debited with N12,000
  • C. Goods sent to branch account would be debited with N10,800
  • D. Goods sent to branch account would be credited with N12,000
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Question 38

Use the information below to Answer questions 46 and 47.

Among Limited invoiced goods at a cost of N10,000 to its Ikeja branch at a marginal of 20%. The branch later returned goods worth N1,200 at invoice price to the head office.

The profit marginal should be?

jamb 1999

  • A. debit to goods sent to branch account
  • B. debit to branch stock adjustment account
  • C. credit to branch adjustment account
  • D. credit to branch stock adjustment account
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Question 39

To record the transfer of stock from one department to another, the correct entry would be to debit?

jamb 1999

  • A. goods outwards and credit goods inwards
  • B. merchandise account and credit department stock account
  • C. department transfering and credit department receivving
  • D. department receiving and credit department transfering
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Question 40

The conventional sources of public revenue includes?

jamb 1999

  • A. loans,taxation, foreign reserves and dividends
  • B. interest, royalties, taxation and loans
  • C. crude oil, interest, posted price and taxation
  • D. taxtion, deficit budgeting, royalties and loans
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