What do you understand by ledger folio?
In accounting, ledger folio is often abbreviated as Ledger Folio. You may have seen the notation on the manual books or on reports printed out from certain small business accounting software packages. To offer a complete meaning it is necessary to define the journals and ledgers and explain how transactions flow from the former to the latter.
Ledger folio or L.F. is the page number of the ledger account where the posting has been made from the journal. This page number of the ledger is recorded in the journal.
Popular Questions of Class 11 Accountancy
- Q:- Explain the qualitative characteristics of accounting information.
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Mr. Sunrise started a business for buying and selling of stationery with ₹ 5,00,000 as an initial investment. Of which he paid ₹ 1,00,000 for furniture, ₹ 2,00,000 for buying stationery items. He employed a sales person and clerk. At the end of the month he paid ₹ 5,000 as their salaries. Out of the stationery bought he sold some stationery for ₹ 1,50,000 for cash and some other stationery for ₹ 1,00,000 on credit basis to Mr. Ravi. Subsequently, he bought stationery items of ₹ 1,50,000 from Mr. Peace. In the first week of next month there was a fire accident and he lost ₹ 30,000 worth of stationery. A part of the machinery, which cost ₹ 40,000, was sold for ₹ 45,000.
From the above, answer the following :
1. What is the amount of capital with which Mr. Sunrise started business?
2. What are the fixed assets he bought?
3. What is the value of the goods purchased?
4. Who is the creditor and state the amount payable to him?
5. What are the expenses?
6. What is the gain he earned?
7. What is the loss he incurred?
8. Who is the debtor? What is the amount receivable from him?
9. What is the total amount of expenses and losses incurred?
10. Determine if the following are assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses or none of the these: sales, debtors, creditors, salary to manager, discount to debtors, drawings by the owner. - Q:- Describe the role of accounting in the modern world.
- Q:- What do you mean by an asset and what are different types of assets?
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Differentiate between source documents and vouchers.
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Complete the following sentences with appropriate words:
(a) Information in financial reports is based on .....................
(b) Internal users are the ..................... of the business entity.
(c) A ..................... would most likely use an entities financial report to determine whether or not the business entity is eligible for a loan.
(d) The Internet has assisted in decreasing the ..................... in issuing financial reports to users.
(e) ..................... users are groups outside the business entity, who uses the information to make decisions about the business entity.
(f) Information is said to be relevent if it is ......................
(g) The process of accounting starts with ............ and ends with ............
(h) Accounting measures the business transactions in terms of ............ units.
(i) Identified and measured economic events should be recording in ............ order. - Q:-
What is a journal? Give a specimen of journal showing at least five entries.
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Define accounting and state its objectives.
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Enumerate informational needs of management.
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Complete the following work sheet:
(i) If a firm believes that some of its debtors may ′default′, it should act on this by making sure that all possible losses are recorded in the books. This is an example of the ___________ concept.
(ii) The fact that a business is separate and distinguishable from its owner is best exemplified by the ___________ concept.
(iii) Everything a firm owns, it also owns out to somebody. This co-incidence is explained by the ___________ concept.
(iv) The ___________ concept states that if straight line method of depreciation is used in one year, then it should also be used in the next year.
(v) A firm may hold stock which is heavily in demand. Consequently, the market value of this stock may be increased. Normal accounting procedure is to ignore this because of the ___________.
(vi) If a firm receives an order for goods, it would not be included in the sales figure owing to the ___________.
(vii) The management of a firm is remarkably incompetent, but the firms accountants can not take this into account while preparing book of accounts because of ________ concept.
Recently Viewed Questions of Class 11 Accountancy
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What adjusting entries would you record for the following :
(a) Depreciation
(b) Discount on debtors
(c) Interest on capital
(d) Manager’s commission - Q:-
Who are the external users of information?
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Read the following transactions and identify the cause of difference on the basis of time gap or errors made by business firm/bank. Put a sign (✓) for the correct cause.
S. No. Transactions Time Gap Errors
made by
business/
bank1.
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3.
4.
5.
Cheque issued to customer but not presented for payment.
Cheque amounting to Rs. 5,000 issued to
M/s. XYZ but recorded as Rs. 500 in the cash book.Interest credited by the bank but yet not recorded by
the bank.Cheque deposited into the bank but not yet collected
by the bank.Bank charges debited to firm's current account by the
bank. - Q:-
Define revenues and expenses?
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The book in which all accounts are maintained is known as:
(i) Cash Book
(ii) Journal
(iii) Purchases Book
(iv) Ledger - Q:-
Define accounting and state its objectives.
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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 - Q:-
Trial balance is:
(a) An account.
(b) A statement.
(c) A subsidiary book.
(d) A principal book. - Q:-
Briefly state how the cash book is both journal and a ledger.
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State whether the following statements are True or False :
(a) Journal is a book of secondary entry.
(b) One debit account and more than one credit account in a entry is called compound entry.
(c) Assets sold on credit are entered in sales journal.
(d) Cash and credit purchases are entered in purchasejJournal.
(e) Cash sales are entered in sales journal.
(f) Cash book records transactions relating to receipts and payments.
(g) Ledger is a subsidiary book.
(h) Petty cash book is a book having record of big payments.
(i) Cash received is entered on the debit side of cash book.
(j) Transaction recorded both on debit and credit side of cash book is known as contra entry.
(k) Balancing of account means total of debit and credit side.
(l) Credit purchase of machine is entered in purchase journal.
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