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1. Question
In general, accountants measure income using an approach based on:
- transactions
- economics
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2. Question
Which concept holds that an organization’s life can be divided into discrete accounting periods (months, quarters, years)?
- transactions approach
- periodicity assumption
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The periodicity assumption seems practical and logical; however, it introduces allocation problems when dividing the life of a company into specific units of time.
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4. Question
Under the accrual basis of accounting, revenue should be recognized at the time services are rendered or when goods are sold and delivered to a customer.
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5. Question
Business expenses should be recognized in the same period as the revenues they helped to produce. This concept is known as the:
- matching principle
- cash basis of accounting
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6. Question
Adjusting entries are necessary to fulfill the goals of proper income measurement and are consistent with the cash basis of accounting.
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7. Question
The recording and accounting for prepaid expenses, depreciation, and similar items is consistent with the adjusting process for:
- multiperiod costs and revenues that must be split among two or more accounting periods
- revenues and expenses that have been earned or incurred in a given period but not recorded in the accounts
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8. Question
Revenues and expenses that gradually accumulate throughout an accounting period are known as:
- accruals
- deferrals
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9. Question
An appropriate journal entry to record accrued interest would involve a debit to Interest Expense and a credit to:
- Interest Payable
- Unearned Interest
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10. Question
Adjusting entries should be determined:
- subsequent to preparing financial statements
- prior to preparing financial statements
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11. Question
An adjusted trial balance is prepared by changing specific account balances in the trial balance by the amount of the adjustments from the adjusting entries.
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12. Question
Prepaid expenses would initially be recorded in an expense account under which adjusting entry approach?
- balance sheet approach
- income statement approach
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