SALEM STATE COLLEGE
ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES I
FINAL EXAM - FALL 1996 - DECEMBER 16, 1996
PROFESSOR MCGEE
Please indicate the correct/best answer by circling the appropriate letter.
NAME____________________________________________
- A Company maintains a policy in which employees are required to take vacations and duties of employees are rotated periodically. This is an example of which type of internal control procedure?
- Separation of duties
- Sound personal policies
- Limited access
- Recording transactions
- A form which includes the vendor’s address and contains a description of the items ordered, the expected price, terms and shipping date is called a (n)
- Purchase order
- Purchase requisition
- Invoice
- Receiving report
- The entry to record the setting up of a $200 petty cash fund would be
- Cash - operating 200.00
Petty cash 200.00
- Petty cash 200.00
Cash - operating 200.00
- Petty cash expense 200.00
Cash - operating 200.00
- Office expense 200.00
Petty cash 200.00
- The entry to record the replenishment of a petty cash fund would include a:
- Debit to petty cash
- Credit to cash
- Credit to petty cash
- Credit to office expense
- The process of carefully checking an employee’s background and insuring the company against theft by that person is called
- Bonding
- Management goals
- Imprest system
- Voucher system
- If owner’s equity were $38,000 and total assets were $56,000, then total liabilities would be:
- $94,000
- $18,000
- $20,000
- $74,000
- An owner investment of cash into the business would include a:
- Credit to capital
- Credit to cash
- Debit to accounts receivable
- Credit to revenue
- The Phillips Co. gathered the following information pertaining to its year ended December 31, 1996 prior to any adjustments:
Net sales for the year $780,000
Accounts receivable 12/31 165,000
Allowance for Doubtful accounts
at 12/31 3,200 credit
Aging of accounting receivable at 12/31/96:
- 30 days $92,000
31 - 60 days 36,000
61 - 90 days 23,000
over 90 days 14,000
total $165,000
Assume Phillips uses the aging of Accounts Receivable method for estimating bad debts. Phillips estimates that b ad debts will be aged as follows: 3% for (1-30 days), 5% for (31 - 60 days), 8% for (61-90 days), and 20% for (0ver 90 days). The adjusting entry to record bad debt expense for the year is:
- Bad debt expense $9,200
Allowance for uncollectible accounts $9,200
b. Bad debt expense 12,400
Accounts receivable 12,400
- Uncollectible account expense 6,000
Allowance for uncollectible accounts 6,000
- Uncollectible account expense 9,200
Allowance for uncollectible accounts 9,200
9. Reny & Co. accepted a nine-month $14,000 note receivable, with 6% interest from McKenna Company on September 1, 1996. Reny & Company’s year end is December 31. The amount of interest on this note to be recognized by Reny & Co. in 1997 is
- $630
- $840
- $280
- $350
- The interest on a $60,000 note at 8% for four months is:
- $750
- $1,600
- $4,800
- $14,400
- The direct write-off of uncollectible accounts does not meet the requirements of the:
- Revenue recognition principle
- Matching principle
- Full disclosure principle
- Historical cost principle
- A company with net sales of $850,000, a beginning balance of net receivables of $230,000 and an ending balance of net receivables of $190,000 has a days’ sales in accounts receivable of:
- 99 days
- 82 days
- 92 days
- 90 days
- An example of a contra account is:
- prepaid insurance
- unearned revenue
- office equipment
- accumulated depreciation
- The most liquid asset is:
- prepaid rent
- cash
- accounts receivable
- supplies
- All of the following are acceptable(per GAAP) methods of valuing inventory except:
- LIFO
- Estimating retail method
- FIFO
- Average cost
- Which of the following inventory costing methods requires a company to keep track of the actual movement of individual inventory items.
- LIFO
- Specific Identification
- FIFO
- Weighted-average
- FOB destination means that:
- Merchandise should be included in the buyer’s inventory as of the date it is shipped by the seller.
- The seller should record sales revenue as soon as the merchandise has been shipped.
- Title to the merchandise passes to the buyer upon receipt at the buyer’s warehouse
- The goods are shipped within the State
- Data from a Company for the first month of operations follow:
1/1 Purchased 23 units @ $73
1/6 Sold 15 units
1/12 Purchased 7 units @ $76
1/17 Sold 10 units
1/20 Purchased 5 units @ $78
1/25 Sold 4 units
1/29 Sold 3 units
Calculate ending inventory using the FIFO perpetual inventory method
- $234
- $250
- $219
- $228
- Which accounting convention supports the lower of-cost-or market rule
- Matching
- Going concern
- Conservatism
- Reliability
- The set of programs that cause the computer to perform the work desired is called the:
- Software
- Network
- Hardware
- Server
PROLEMS - PLEASE USE BLUE BOOK PROVIDED
The following data have been gathered for Syncronics, Inc.:
- The July 31 bank balance was $4,000
- The bank statement included $65 in service charges
- The bank collected a $900 note from Alpha co. The face value of the note was $850.
- Checks outstanding totaled $525.00
- The July 31 deposit of $350 did not appear on the bank statement
- The bookkeeper had erroneously recorded a $50 check as $500. The check was written to a vendor to pay off a debt.
- Included with the canceled checks was a check written by Syncronize Corporation for $200 which was deducted from Syncronics’ account.
- The bank statement also included an NSF check written by Multimedia Inc. for a $460 payment on account.
- The cash account showed a balance of $3,200 on July 31.
Required:
- Prepare the July 31 bank reconciliation for Syncronics, Inc.
- Prepare any required entries to bring the book balance up-to-date.
- Cambell Co. had an accounts receivable balance of $300,000 and a credit balance in Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts of $16,000 at January 1, 1996. During the year, the company recorded the following transactions;
- Sales on account, $1,000,000
- Sales returns and allowances from credit customers, $50,000
- Collections from customers, $925,000
- Worhtless accounts written off $20,000
- and 6. Written-off accounts collected $4,000.
The Company’s past history indicates that 3.0 percent of net credit sales will not be collected.
Required:
- record separate general journal entries for each of the six items listed above.
- record the general journal entry on December 31, 1996 for the estimated uncollectible accounts expense for the year. Net Sales Method.
- In Chronological order, the inventory, purchases and sales of a single product for a recent month are as follows:
Units Amount P/Unit
Nov 1 Beginning inventory 500 $11.00
Nov 5 Purchase 100 $11.25
Nov 7 Sale 50 $20.00
Nov 12 Purchase 200 $11.50
Nov 15 Sale 150 $22.00
Nov 22 Purchase 400 $12.00
Nov 30 Sale 300 $23.00
Required:
Using the periodic inventory system, compute the:
- Cost of goods sold
- gross margin
Use the following inventory cost assumptions:
- Average cost
- FIFO
- LIFO
- Indicate on which statement (Income statement, Balanc Sheet, or Statement of Owner’s Equity) the following accounts would appear:
- Allowance for Uncollectible accounts
- Dividends
- Notes receivable
- Interest income
- Prepaid rent
- Unearned revenue
- Uncollectible account expense
- Insurance expense
- Owner’s withdrawal
- Repair revenue
- Sales
- Accounts receivable
- Cash