1. What is Balance Sheet?
Ans. Balance sheet
is a statement which shows financial position of all assets and liabilities of
the business on a particular date.
2. State the meaning of debit balance of Trading Account?
Ans. Debit balance
of trading account indicates gross loss of the business for a particular year.
3. When is partner’s current account opened?
Ans. partner’s
capital account is opened if partners adopt fixed capital method.
4. To which account Gross Profit transferred?
Ans. Gross profit
is transferred to the credit side of profit & loss account.
5. What is closing stock?
Ans. Stock of
goods in hand at the end of the accounting year is called as closing stock.
6. What is Final Accounts?
Ans. Final accounts are accounts which are prepared at
the end of the financial year by the partnership firm, consisting of trading
a/c, profit & loss a/c and balance sheet
7. How is closing stock valued?
Ans. Closing stock
is valued at cost price or market price whichever is less.
8. What do you mean by direct expenses?
Ans. Expenses
which are directly related to production of goods and purchases of goods are
called as direct expenses.
9. What do you mean by indirect expenses?
Ans. Expenses
which are not directly related to production of goods and purchases of goods
are called as indirect expenses.
10. What do you mean by accrued income?
Ans. Income which
is due for current accounting year but not yet received is known as outstanding
income.
11. What is Trial balance?
Ans. A list of
debit and credit balances of all ledger accounts is called as Trial balance.
12. What is bad debts?
Ans. The amount
which is irrecoverable from debtor is called as bad debts.
13. In the absence of partnership deed, what is profit
sharing ratio of the partners?
Ans. In the
absence of partnership deed, profit and losses are shared equally by the
partners.
14. What do you mean by carriage inward?
Ans. Transport expenses incurred to carry the goods
purchased by the firm are called as carriage inward.
15. What do you mean by freight?
Ans. Expenses which are paid to railways or airways for
carrying goods are called as freight.
16. What are
tangible assets?
Ans. Tangible
assets are those which are of permanent nature and can be seen by our eyes.
17. What are
intangible assets?
Ans. Intangible assets are those which can not be seen by
our eyes but have realisable value.
18. What are
contingent liabilities?
Ans. A liability
which may or may not occur in future, depending on happening of certain events
is called as contingent liabilities.
19. What do you
mean by Pre- received incomes?
Ans. Income which is not related to the current
accounting year but related to the future period is known as pre-received
incomes.
20. What are
fictitious assets?
Ans. Fictitious
assets are those which are intangible in nature and do not have realisable
value.
21. What are
outstanding expenses?
Ans. Expenses
which are due but not paid in the current accounting year is known as
outstanding expenses
