Class 11 Accountancy - Chapter Accounts from Incomplete Records NCERT Solutions | Write the correct word(s) : 1. Credit

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

If opening capital is Rs. 60,000, drawings Rs. 5,000, capital introduced during the period Rs. 10,000, closing capital Rs. 90,000. The value of profit earned during the period will be :

  (a) Rs. 20,000            (b) Rs. 25,000
  (c) Rs. 30,000            (d) Rs. 40,000

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?

Explain the double entry mechanism with an illustrative example.

A Trial balance is prepared:

(a) After preparation financial statement.
(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.

Which of the following is not an error of principle:

(a) Purchase of furniture debited to purchases account.
(b) Repairs on the overhauling of second hand machinery purchased debited to repairs account.
(c) Cash received from Manoj posted to Saroj.
(d) Sale of old car credited to sales account.

Which of the following answers properly classifies these commonly used accounts:
(1) Building (2) Wages (3) Credit sales (4) Credit purchases (5) Electricity charges due but not yet paid (outstanding electricity bills) (6) Godown rent paid in advance (prepaid godown rent) (7) Sales (8) Fresh capital introduced (9) Drawings (10) Discount paid
      Assets      Liabilities      Capital      Revenue      Expense
(i)     5,4,         3,                  9,6            2,10              8,7
(ii)    1, 6         4, 5               8               7, 3               2,9,10
(iii)   2,10,4     4,6                8               7,5                1,3,9

Find the correct statement:
(i) Credit a decrease in assets
(ii) Credit the increase in expenses
(iii) Debit the increase in revenue
(iv) Credit the increase in capital

Write the process of preparing ledger from a journal.

When information about two different enterprises have been prepared presented in a similar manner the information exhibits the characteristic of :
(a) Verifiability
(b) Relevance
(c) Reliability
(d) None of the above

Choose the Correct Answer

During the life-time of an entity accounting produce financial statements in accordance with which basic accounting concept :
(a) Conservation
(b) Matching
(c) Accounting period
(d) None of the above

Cash withdrawn by the Proprietor should be credited to:
(i) Drawings account
(ii) Capital account
(iii) Profit and loss account
(iv) Cash account

Which qualitative characteristics of accounting information is reflected when accounting information is clearly presented?
a. Understandability
b. Relevance
c. Comparability
d. Reliability