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204 Accounting Questions And Answers

161⟩ What is the difference between personal account real account and nominal account?

The total business transactions are divided in to three They are Transactions related to persons, Transactions related to Things, Transactions related to incomes & expenditures. In accountancy we have three types of accounts they are - personal, real, nominal Personal accounts refers to all the transactions related to natural persons, artificial persons and representative persons ex:- rama, ravi, Indian bank, outstanding rent. ,. First category of transactions belongs to personal accounts RULE: debit the receiver and credit the giver Real accounts include things in the business i.e. assets. Second category of transactions related to Real accounts ex: buildings, machinery, cash etc. RULE: Debit what comes in and credit what goes out Nominal accounts includes all the transactions related to expenditures, incomes, losses, and profits. Ex: - rent paid, rent received, bad debts, profit on sale of an asset.

RULE: Debit all expenses and losses and credit all incomes and profits

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162⟩ What is inventory management?

Inventory management is an automated process of managing the stock of products and the various things involved with it Involves a retailer seeking to acquire and maintain a proper merchandise assortment while ordering, shipping, handling, and related costs are kept in check. Systems and processes that identify inventory requirements, set targets, provide replenishment techniques, and report actual and projected inventory status.

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164⟩ What is dividend warrants?

Dividend is the part of profits payable to the owners of the company i.e., Shareholders. Some companies issues warrants to its shareholders instead of paying dividends in the form of cash in the form of document by mentioning the Warrant Price and other details.

The price mentioned in it is also called exercise price. Some times company may not specify the name of the holder. The holder of the document can fill it.

Advantages: It helps to the issuing company from paying the Tax.

It is easy to transfer from one person to other without any formalities

It helps to increase the share/capital of the company

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165⟩ What is double entry book keeping?

In double entry book, keeping method a journal entry is posted to both respective accounts for each transaction.

Let us say for sales transaction, debit entry posted to cash account credit entry posted to sales account.

Therefore, it is one of the methods to post accounting transactions.

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166⟩ What are trade bills?

Every transaction must be supported by any document. A trade bill is a supporting document of business activities like purchases, sales, receipts, payments etc...

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167⟩ What is Letter of Credit?

LC (Letter of Credit) is a set of documents which are very essential for goods being transported from one country to another. This set includes that of invoices, shipping documents, grantees and others.

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168⟩ What are the four classifications of Bad and Doubtful Debts as per the context of the Bank?

Assets in Banks are Loans and Advances given to borrowers. These Assets are divided into 4 categories. They are

1. Standard Assets: These accounts are good and the borrower is repaying the loan as per stipulation and the security extended in good.

2. Substandard Asset: These accounts are good as per the security extended is good but the loans repayment is not up to the mark.

3. Doubtful Asset: These accounts have both the security as well the repayment stipulation in irregular method.

4. Bad Asset: These accounts are where the repayment is not forthcoming and the security extended becomes bad.

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171⟩ What is an adjusting journal entry?

Adjusting entries are those entries that passed to rectify an error or wrong entry already made some accounting soft wares have disabled edit function in the accounts, so the only way to undo the mistake is to pass a correction entry or adjusting entry.

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172⟩ What is a Comprehensive Income?

Items GAAP does not want us to record in Income Statement. GAAP does not want financial statements provider to mislead users. Ex. items will record in comprehensive income are Unrealized gain or loss on available-for-sales securities; Unrecognized net gain or loss; Unrecognized prior service cost (credit); Unrecognized net gain or loss.

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174⟩ What are the types off ratios?

Financial ratios express relationships between financial statement items. Although they provide historical data, management can use ratios to identify internal strengths and weaknesses, and estimate future financial performance. Investors can use ratios to compare companies in the same industry. Ratios are not generally meaningful as standalone numbers, but they are meaningful when compared to historical data and industry averages.

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175⟩ What is normal accounting?

An account balance that, based on certain factors or classifications, is expected of that particular account. Also called normal balance.

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180⟩ Can I take service tax on freight outward?

Yes, you can take tax on freight outward. Because you are paid freight inclusive of service, tax so you can full credit availed on any expenditure where you paying service tax amount.

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