QUESTION BANK Class 11
QUESTION BANK Class 11
QUESTION BANK Class 11
CLASS 11
INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING
MCQs
28. Any expenditure, the full benefit of which is received during one accounting
period is termed as:
(A) Current Liability
(B) Current Asset
(C) Capital Expenditure
(D) Revenue Expenditure
29. Which of the following will be treated as drawings:
(A) Withdrawing money for payment of salary to employees
(B) Withdrawing money for payment to creditors
(C) Withdrawing money from business for private expenses
(D) Withdrawing money for purchase of asset
30. Main feature of business transaction is:
(A) It involves an economic activity
(B) It results in a change in the financial position of the firm
C) Change must be capable of being expressed in terms of money
(D) All of the above
31. Current Liabilities do not include:
(A) Bills Payable
(C) Outstanding Exp.
(B) Creditors
(D) Debentures
32. The term sales is used only for the sales of .......... and is never used for the sale
of
(A) Assets, Investments
(B) Assets, Goods
(C) Intangible Assets, Goods
(D) Goods, Assets
33. Out of the following assets which one is NOT an intangible asset?
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(A) Patents (C) Goodwill
(B) Investments (D) Trademark
34. At the end of financial year, during which sale of goods was worth ₹5,00,000,
the closing stock is valued at 40,000. This is ...........
(A) An event
(B) A transaction
(C) Both an event as well as transaction
(D) None of (A) and (B)
35. Which of the following is the Capital expenditure?
(A) Wages paid for repair of building
(B) Wages paid for white washing of building
(C) Wages paid for construction of building
(D) Wages paid for cleaning of building
36. Consider the following items:
1. Prepaid Salary 2. Accrued Interest (Receivable)
3. Loan (Short term) 4. Bank Overdraft
ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES
1. Accounting Principles are:
(A) Made by government
(C) Made by Law
(A) The rules which are adopted while recording the accounting transactions
(B) The rules which are adopted while preparing Profit & Loss Account
(C) The rules which are adopted while preparing balance sheet
(D) The rules which are adopted while preparing Director's Report
transactions
terms of money
11. According to Dual Aspect Concept, the system of recording transactions is called:
(C) When the title of the goods has been transferred to the purchaser
(C) There should be proper vouchers for checking every purchase-sale transaction
(A) All the firms in the same industry should use identical accounting principles and procedures
(C) Accounting principles and methods should remain consistent from one year to another
20. The concept that a business enterprise will not be sold or liquidated in the near future is known
as:
21. According to which Concept even the proprietor of the business is treated as a creditor of the
business:
24. Cost price or realisable value, whichever is less, is used for the valuation of:
25. According to which of the following, a business is considered to run for indefinite period :
27. According to which concept the same accounting methods should be used each
year:
(A) Prudence
(C) Materiality
(D) Consistency
28. Everything a firm owns, it also owes out to somebody. This is explained by which concept:
11. B 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. B 16. C 17. C 18. C 19. A 20. D
DEPRECIATION
(A) Decline in the value of assets (B) Depreciation is of permanent nature (C)
Depreciation is a non-cash expense (D) All of the above
2. Depreciation arises because of:
(A) Obsolescence
(A) Loss
(C) Gain
(B) Income
(D) Liability
(A) Fluctuations
13. A machine is purchased for 80,000 and its installation charges are 10,000. If
its scrap value is ₹6,000 and effective life is 10 years, its yearly depreciation as
(A)₹ 8,600
(B) ₹ 9,600
(C)₹ 8,400
(D) ₹ 9,000
14. Purchase price of a machine is 2,00,000 and its installation charges are ₹
30,000. Its scrap value is ₹5,000. If it is depreciated @ 10% p.a. on diminishing
balance method, the depreciation in the first year will be:
(A) 23,000
(C) 23,500
(B) 22,500
(D)16,500
18. Depreciation charged at the end of the year will be debited to:
19. Depreciation charged at the end of the year will be credited to:
21. On 1st October 2018, a machine is purchased for ₹3,60,000 and ₹ 40,000
are spent on its installation. Depreciation is charged @ 10% p.a. on original
cost method. Books are closed on 31st March each year. On 31st March, 2020
depreciation charged will be:
(A) ₹ 20,000
(C) ₹ 38,000
(B) ₹ 40,000
(D) ₹ 36,000
22. On 1st July 2017, a machine is purchased for ₹ 1,75,000 and ₹ 25,000 are
spent on its installation. Depreciation is charged @ 10% p.a. on diminishing
balance method. Books are closed on 31st March each year. On 31st March,
2020 depreciation charged will be:
(C) ₹ 55,500
(B)₹ 45,000
(D) ₹ 54,000
(A) ₹ 30,000
(C) ₹ 40,000
(B) ₹ 35,000
(D) ₹ 25,000
(A) ₹ 1,53,000
(C)₹ 1,36,350
(B) ₹ 1,19,700
(D) ₹ 1,27,800
27. A firm purchased on 1st April 2018 a second-hand machinery for ₹ 50,000
and spent ₹ 10,000 on its installation. On 1st July in the same year additional
machinery was purchased for ₹ 20,000. Depreciation is provided each year on
31st December @ 5% p.a. on written down value of the asset. The amount of
depreciation in the first year will be:
(A) ₹ 4,000
(C) ₹ 3,500
(B) ₹ 3,250
(D) ₹ 2,750
28. On 1st July 2018, a firm purchased a machinery for ₹4,00,000. On 1st
October in the same year additional machinery was purchased for ₹1,00,000
Depreciation is provided each year on 31st December @ 10% p.a. on writter
down value of the asset. The amount of depreciation in the second year will be
(A)₹ 45,000
(C) ₹ 47,000
(B) ₹ 47,750
(D) ₹ 45,750
30. What is the amount of difference between the closing balances of two
machines after two years is both machines were purchased on the same date
with the same amount i.e., for ₹ 1,00,000? Machine I is depreciated by 20%
p.a. on Straight Line Method and Machine II is depreciated by 20% p.a. on
Diminishing Balance Method :
(A) Value of Machine II is more by ₹2,000
(A) ₹ 3,125
(B)₹ 3175
(C) ₹ 12,500
(D)₹ 12,700
32. The balance of machine on 31st March 2019 is ₹ 97,200. The machine was
(A) ₹1,00,000
(B) ₹ 1,20,000
(C) ₹ 1,08,000
(D) ₹ 1,32,000
33. Original cost of an asset is ₹1,26,000; Salvage value is ₹6,000; Useful Life is
6 Years. The rate of depreciation under Straight Line Method will be:
(A) 11.11%
(B) 10%
(C) 10.34%
(D) 9.37%
35. Which one of the following is not a feature of written down value method
of depreciation?
(A) The book value of the asset becomes zero at any one point of
(B) The depreciation is calculated on the book value of assets and not on the
Cost
(D) there is no need to estimate the residual value and estimated life at the
time of deciding the amount of depreciation
ANSWER KEY: 1. D 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. C 7. A 8. C 9. D
10. D 11. B 12. D 13. C 14. A 15. B 16. C 17. A 18.D
19. A 20. C 21. B 22. D 23. A 24. D 25. B 26. C 27.D 28. B
29. B 30. C 31. A 32. B 33. A 34. B 35. A
Show how the machinery account would appear in the books of the
Company, it being given that machinery was depreciated by Diminishing
Balance Method at 10% per annum. What would be the balance of
Machinery Account on 1st April, 2020?
1. Provision is made:
(B) For bad and doubtful debts (D) All of the above
(C) Does not affect the profit (D) May increase or decrease the profit
5. Provisions are necessary for :
6. Reserve is created:
7. Reserve is shown:
8. Creation of Reserve is :
(A) Profits
(C) Assets
(B) Losses
(D) Liabilities
10. Features of reserves are:
(A) Provisions
(B) Reserves
(D) Investments
as a matter of prudence.
(B) A revenue reserve can be used for distribution of dividend with certain
preconditions whereas a capital reserve can be used for distribution of
dividend without any preconditions
(iii) Creation of provisions are not necessary for a business (iv) Provisions are
created to meet a known liability
"Provision"?
(C) Provision is created for strengthening the financial position of the business
1. Trial balance is :
A. An account
B. A statement
C. A subsidiary book
D. A principal book
2. Trial balance is a:
A. A personal a/c
B. A real a/c
C. A nominal a/c
D. Not an a/c
3. A trial balance is prepared on the basis of:
A. Subsidiary books
B. Ledger
C. Subsidiary books and ledger
D. Cash book
4. Objective of preparing trial balance is:
A. To ascertain the profit or loss of business
B. To ascertain the financial position of business
C. To ascertain the accuracy of accounts
D. To ascertain the arithmetical accuracy of accounts
5. Trial balance is:
A. Real account
B. Nominal account
C. List of balances
D. None of the above
6. Preparation of trial balance is
A. Voluntary
B. Compulsory
C. Neither voluntary nor compulsory
D. Both A and B
7. Name of method of preparing trial balance is
A. Balance method
B. Total amount method
C. Total- cum balance method
D. All of the above
8. Most commonly used method of preparing trial balance is:
A. Balance method
B. Total amount method
C. Total- cum balance method
D. None of the above
9. Trial balance does not include
A. Capital
B. Closing stock
C. Drawings
D. Opening stock
10. A trial balance is prepared:
A. After preparation of financial statements
B. After recording transactions in subsidiary books
C. After posting to ledger is complete
D. After posting to ledger is complete and accounts have been balanced
11.When the trial balance does not agree, the difference is transferred to:
A. Capital a/c
B. Drawings a/c
C. Suspense a/c
D. Profit and loss a/c
12. Assets are shown in the trial balance on the
A. Debit side
B. Credit side
C. Neither debit nor credit
D. Outside the trial balance
13. Trial balance contains balances of
A. Only personal and real accounts
B. Only personal and nominal accounts
C. Only real and nominal accounts
D. All accounts
14. Trial balance is prepared
A. Before journal
B. After journal
C. Before ledger
D. After ledger
15. Which of the following balance of account is shown on the credit side
of trial balance:
A. Sales a/c
B. Purchases return a/c
C. Capital a/c
D. All of the above
16. Out of the following balance of which account is shown on the debit
side of trial balance:
A. Sales account
B. Purchases return a/c
C. Sales return a/c
D. Capital a/c
17. Liabilities are shown in the trial balance on the
A. Debit side
B. Credit side
C. Neither debit nor credit
D. Outside the trial balance
18. Which of the following items is shown on the debit side of trial
balance
A. Commission received a/c
B. Bank overdraft a/c
C. Bills payable a/c
D. Bills receivable a/c
19.Out of the following, balance of which account is shown on the credit
side of Trial Balance:
(A) Purchases A/c (B) Discount Received A/c
(C) Sales Return A/c (D) Bills Receivable A/c
21. Errors which nullify the effects of each other, are called:
(A) Error of Principle (B) Error of Omission
(C) Error of Posting (D) Compensating Error
22. When the rules of double entry are not strictly followed, the errors
caused are called:
(A) Errors of Principle
(C) Errors of Commission
(B) Compensating Errors
(D) Errors of Omission
23. If wages paid for installation of new machinery is debited to Wages
Account, it will be called:
(A) An error of Omission
(C) An error of Principle
(B) An error of Commission
(D) A Compensating error
24. If ₹ 2,000 received from Anil has been credited to Sunil, it will be
called:
(A) An error of omission
(C) A compensating error
(B) An error of Commission
(D) An error of principle
25. If X has been debited by ₹ 50 instead of ₹ 500 and Y has been
debited by ₹500 instead of ₹ 50, it will be called:
(A) Error of Principle
(C) Error of Omission
(B) Compensating Error
(D) Error of Commission
26.If goods for ₹ 10,000 have been taken by the proprietor for
personal use and it has not been recorded in the books, it will be
called:
(A) An error of Principle (C) An error of Omission
(B) An error of Commission
(D) A Compensating error
27. If goods sold for ₹ 2,500 to Gaurav is recorded as ₹ 5,200 in sales
book, it will be called:
(A) An error of Commission (C) An error of principle
(B) An error of Omission
(D) A compensating error
28.Which of the following errors is disclosed by the trial balance:
(A) Error of Principle
(B) Error of Omission
(C) Error of balancing and carry forward
(D) Compensating error
29. Which of the following errors is not disclosed by the Trial
balance:
(A) Error of Omission
(C) Compensating Error
(B) Error of Principle
(D) All of the above
30. Which of the following errors will affect the agreement of trial
balance:
(A) Omission of recording in original records
(B) Error of posting in wrong account
(C) Error of principle
(D) Posting to the wrong side
31. Which of the following errors is not disclosed by a trial balance:
(A) Error of casting of the book of an original entry
(B) Posting of wrong amount in a ledger account
(C) Error of omitting to record a transaction in books of original
entry
(D) All of the above
32. Which of the following errors shall not prevent the agreement
of a trial balance
(A) Goods sold to X for ₹ 1,000 was recorded as ₹10,000 in sales
book
(B) The total of sales book was overcast by ₹ 1,000
(C) ₹ 8,000 were posted in Y's A/c instead of ₹800
(D) Cash balance was not included in the trial balance
33. Which of the following is not an error of principle:
(A) Purchase of furniture debited to purchases account
(B) Repair expenses on overhauling of second hand machinery
purchased debited to repairs account
(C)₹ 2,000 received from Khushi were credited to Sukhi's account
(D) Sale of old car credited to sales account
34. Which of the following errors is revealed by the Trial Balance:
(A) Wrong amount entered into the book of original entry
(B) Wrong amount posted in the ledger Account
(C) Complete omission of an entry from the books of original entry
(D) When accounting principle is violated while recording a
transaction in the books of Account
35. Which item shows a debit balance in the Trial Balance?
(A) Purchase Return
(C) Sales
(B) Salary outstanding
(D) Prepaid Expense
36. Which of the following is not an error of commission:
(A) A sale of ₹560 not recorded in Books at all.
(B) Rent paid to landlord was posted to Landlord's Account
(C) A purchase of ₹ 840 was wrongly posted to sales Account.
(D) Instead of crediting Shyam credited the other creditor Sham.
37. Which of the following errors will not affect the trial balance :
(A) Principle
(C) Commission
(B) Omission
(D) Compensatory
39. Which of the following is the error of principle?
(A) The purchase book was overcasted by ₹500
(B) Credit sale to Arun ₹700 recorded as purchase from Arun
(C) Goods returned to Charu ₹ 4,000, posted in Chinoo's A/c
(D) Wages paid for installation of machinery debited to Wages
A/c
40. A machine is purchased for ₹ 10,000 which was wrongly
recorded in purchase account. Due to this error
(A) Trial balance will show difference of ₹ 10,000
(B) Trial balance will not show any difference
(C) Trial balance will show the difference of ₹ 20,000
(D) Trial balance will show a difference of ₹ 5,000
ANSWER KEY: 1. (B) 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. A
9. B 10. D 11. C 12. A 13. D 14. D 15. D 16. C 17. B
18. D 19. B 20. B 21. D 22. A 23. C 24. B 25. B 26.
C 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. D 31. C 32. A 33. C 34. B
35. D 36. A 37. D 38. C 39. D 40. B
ANSWER KEY: 1. C 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. B 6. D 7.
C 8. B 9. B 10. C 11. A 12. B 13. B 14. A
15. D 16. A 17. D 18. C 19. A 20. B 21. D
22. C 23. D 24. A
(D)₹ 1,500
(C) ₹ 17,689
(D) ₹ 17,670
8. A trial balance contains Debtors ₹ 15,000, Bad
Debts ₹ 400 and Provision for Doubtful Debts ₹ 600.
Further bad debts given in adjustments are ₹ 400. If
a provision at 5% is made on Debtors, P & L A/c will
be debited with:
(A) ₹ 950 (C)₹ 930
(B)₹ 800 (D) ₹ 1,130
A. ₹ 183000
B. ₹ 177000
C. ₹ 203000
D. ₹ 187000
21.Net profit of a firm before charging manager’s commission is ₹ 21000.
If the manager is entitled to 5% commission after charging such
commission, how much manager will get as commission?
A. ₹ 1050
B. ₹ 1000
C. ₹ 2100
D. ₹ 2000
22.Closing stock is shown in financial statements at:
A. Cost price
B. Realisable value
C. Cost price or realisable value whichever is greater
D. Cost price or realisable value whichever is less
23.General manager gets 10% commission on net profit after charging
such commission. Gross profit ₹ 70000 and general expenses other
than manager’s commission are ₹ 12000. Commission amount will be:
A. ₹ 5273
B. ₹ 6073
C. ₹ 5373
D. ₹ 5173
24.Heavy amount spent for the advertisement of new company product is
A. Revenue expenditure
B. Deferred revenue expenditure
C. Capital expenditure
D. Either A or C
25.Income tax in case of sole trader is treated as
A. Personal expense
B. Debtors expense
C. Business expense
D. None of the above
26.Business paid to Mr. A ₹ 50000 as salary on 25th March, 2020. Mr. A
went to bank to deposit cheque in his account on 3rd April, 2020. What
is the entry to be passed in the balance sheet on the date of final
accounts?
A. No entry
B. Bank a/c Dr. To o/s salary a/c
C. Salary a/c Dr. To o/s salary a/c
D. Salary a/c Dr. To A
27.A machine was purchased in Bihar. During transit the machine was
damaged and the cost of repairs incurred is ₹ 20,000. This expense is
treated as:
A. Capital expense
B. Revenue expense
C. Deferred revenue expense
D. None of these
ANSWER KEY: 1. D 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. A 6. B 7. C 8. C
9. B 10. D 11. C 12. D 13. A 14. C 15. D 16. C
17. B 18. C 19. D 20. A 21. B 22. D 23. A 24. B
25. A 26. A 27. A
SOURCE DOCUMENTS:
1. Pick out a source voucher/document from the following
A. Debit voucher
B. Credit voucher
C. Transfer voucher
D. Invoice
2. When a trader sells goods on credit, he prepares ………. Which
contains the name of the party to whom goods are sold, the
rate, quantity and the total amount of sale
A. Cash memo
B. Invoice
C. Debit note
D. Receipt
3. Rohan has returned goods worth ₹ 20000 to Radheyshyam as he
found it defective. Which document will be prepared by
Radheyshyam?
A. Invoice/ bill
B. Debit note
C. Credit voucher
D. Credit note
4. Credit purchases of furniture will be recorded through which
voucher?
A. Debit voucher
B. Credit voucher
C. Cash voucher
D. Transfer voucher
ANSWER KEY: 1. D 2. B 3. D 4. D
11. Rule of "Debit the Receiver and Credit the Giver is" related
to:
(A) Personal Account (B) Real Account
(C) Nominal Account (D) None of the above
12. Outstanding Expenses A/c is:
13. Rule of "debit the expenses losses and credit the incomes
and gains" applies to:
30. The journal entry for goods sold to Gopal for cash
should include:
(A) Debit to Gopal and Credit to Sales
(B) Debit to Sales and Credit to Cash
(C) Debit to Cash and Credit to Gopal
(D) Debit to Cash and Credit to Sales
31. X returned goods for ₹2,000 to us. The account debited
will be:
(A) Goods Account
(C) Return Inward Account
(B) X's Account
(D) Return Outward Account
32. Journal records the transactions of a firm in a
A. Periodical manner
B. Chronological order
C. Summarised manner
D. Systematic manner
ANWER KEY: 1. B 2.A 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. B 8.
A 9. A 10. B 11. A 12. B 13. A 14. D 15. B 16.
C 17. D 18. C 19. C 20. D 21. B 22. A 23. D
24. B 25. A 26. C 27. C 28. C 29. B 30. D
31. C 32. B
CASH BOOK
1. When a firm maintains a cash book, it need not maintain
(A) Journal Proper
(C) Sales Book
(B) Purchase Book
(D) Cash and Bank Accounts in Ledger
2. Double Column Cash Book records :
(A) Only cash transactions
(B) Only credit transactions
(C) Cash and Bank transactions
(D) All transactions
3. Goods sold for cash are recorded in the
(A) Sales Book (B) Cash Book
(C) Sales Return Book (D) Petty Cash Book
36. Which of the following may have both Dr. or Cr. Balance
(A) Only cash column of cash book
(B) Only bank column of cash book
(C) Both cash and bank column
(D) Neither bank nor cash column
37. Imprest amount Rs. 5,000. What will be the amount of
re-imbursement if following expenses were incurred by the
petty cashier during the month Wages = Rs. 1,450, Tiffin =
Rs. 1,050, small Repairs = Rs. 500, General expenses =
Rs. 400.
(A) Rs. 1,600
(B) Rs. 3,400
(C) Rs. 3,050
(D) Rs. 3,000
38. Salary due for the month of March will appear in .......
side of cash book
(A) Receipt
(B) Payment
(C) Contra
(D) None of the above
39. Petty cash book is prepared on which system?
LEDGER
1. The book in which all the accounts are opened, is
called:
(A) Journal
(C) Ledger
(B) Cash Book
(D) Subsidiary Book
2. The main object of keeping the ledger is:
(A) To ascertain the profit & loss of business
(B) To ascertain the financial position of the
business
(C) To ascertain the debtors and creditors of the
business
(D) To ascertain the net result of all transactions of
one nature
3. A Ledger is a :
(A) Principal Book
(C) Cash Book
(B) Subsidiary Book
(D) Purchase Book
4. When all the transactions related to an account
are collected at one place, it is known as:
(A) Trial Balance (B) Balance Sheet
(C) Journal (D) Ledger
5. A Ledger maintains:
(A) Personal Accounts
(B) Real Accounts
(C) Nominal Accounts
(D) All of the above
6. The process of transferring entries from the
books of original entry is called:
(A) Journalising
(C) Totalling
(B) Posting
(D) Balancing
7. A Ledger is a :
(A) Book of Original Entry
(B) Book of Final Entry
(C) Subsidiary Book
(D) Cash Book
8. Advantages of Ledger are: