Jamb Accounting Past Questions For Year 2011

Question 1

In a trial balance, income and liabilities are?

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  • A. debited and credited respectively
  • B. credited
  • C. credited and debited respectively
  • D. debited
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Question 2

The historical development of accounting reveals that it?

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  • A. deals with debit and credit of items
  • B. is a product of financial development
  • C. is a product of its own evironmnent
  • D. is an ideal subject for finacial development
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Question 3

The medium of correcting errors whose differences are shown in the trial balance is by the use of?

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  • A. debtors' account
  • B. creditor's account
  • C. suspense account
  • D. ledger account
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Question 4

The major feature of a journal is that it has?

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  • A. six columns, date, particulars, folio, amount, debit and credit
  • B. five columns, date particulars, folio, debit and credit
  • C. three columns, date particulars and folio
  • D. four columns, date particulars, folio and amount
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Question 5

Given:

Light expenses...................N400

Purchases........................N3,000

Sales............................N1,200

Creditors........................N2,250

Debtors..........................N50

Calculate the total of the trial balance?

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  • A. N4,250
  • B. N3,500
  • C. N4,300
  • D. N3,450
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