Class 11 Accountancy - Chapter Accounts from Incomplete Records NCERT Solutions | If opening capital is Rs. 60,000, drawin

Credit purchase, during the year is ascertained by preparing :

  (a) Total creditors account       (b) Total debtors account
  (c) Cash account                     (d) Opening statement of affairs

What are the possible reasons for keeping incomplete records?

Explain how the following may be ascertained from incomplete records:
(a) Opening capital and closing capital
(b) Credit sales and credit purchases
(c) Payments to creditors and collection from debtors
(d) Closing balance of cash.

State the meaning of incomplete records?

Tick the correct answer :

Incomplete record mechanism of book keeping is :

  (a) Scientific              (b) Unscientific
  (c) Unsystematic       (d) both (b) and (c)

Distinguish between statement of affairs and balance sheet.

Opening capital is ascertained by preparing :

  (a) Total debtors account      (b) Total creditors account
  (c) Cash account                  (d) Opening statement of affairs

Write the correct word(s) :

1. Credit sales can be ascertained as the balancing figure in the .......... account.
2. Excess of .......... over ......... represents loss sustained during the period.
3. To ascertain the profit, closing capital is to be adjusted by deducting .......... and adding ..........
4. Incomplete records are generally used by ..........

What is meant by a ‘statement of affairs’? How can the profit or loss of a trader be ascertained with the help of a statement of affairs?

‘Is it possible to prepare the profit and loss account and the balance sheet from the incomplete book of accounts kept by a trader’? Do you agree? Explain.

Name any two types of commonly used negotiable instruments.

Why is it necessary to record the adjusting entries in the preparation of final accounts?

What is ‘Depreciation’?

Briefly state how the cash book is both journal and a ledger.

State the meaning of a trial balance?

State the four basic requirements of a database applications.

Define accounting.

State the different elements of a computer system.

Why is it necessary for accountants to assume that business entity will remain a going concern?

State the need for the preparation of bank reconciliation statement?

Select Right Answer:

Voucher is prepared for:
(i) Cash received and paid
(ii) Cash/Credit sales
(iii) Cash/Credit purchase
(iv) All of the above

Fill in the correct words :
(i) Depreciation is a decline in the value of ...........
(ii) Installation, freight and transport expenses are a part of ...........
(iii) Provision is a ........... against profit.
(iv) Reserve created for maintaining a stable rate of dividend is termed as...........

What is Accounting Information System?

What are adjusting entries? Why are they necessary for preparing final accounts?

What is a bank overdraft?

Tick the Correct Answer

Agreement of trial balance is affected by:

(a) One sided errors only.
(b) Two sided errors only.
(c) Both (a) and (b).
(d) None of the above.

Name any two types of commonly used negotiable instruments.

What is matching concept? Why should a business concern follow this concept? Discuss?

Distinguish between ‘general reserve’ and ‘specific reserve’.

Indicate against each amount wheather it is a debit or a credit balance, and prepare a trial balance as at March 31, 2014 based on the following balances:
     Accounts                       Title Amount ₹
 Capital                               1,00,000
 Drawings                           16,000
 Machinery                          20,000
 Sales                                  2,00,000
 Purchases                          2,10,000
 Sales return                        20,000
 Purchases return                30,000
 Wages                                40,000
 Goodwill                             60,000
 Interest received                15,000
 Discount allowed                6,000
 Bank overdraft                    22,000
 Bank loan                           90,000
 Debtors :
 Nathu                                 55,000
 Roopa                                20,000
 Creditors :
 Reena                                 35,000
 Ganesh                               25,000
 Cash                                   54,000
 Stock on April 01, 2013      16,000