Accounting Test Chapter 3
Debits
increase assets and decrease liabilities
The double-entry system requires that each transaction must be recorded
in at least two different accounts
A debit to an asset account indicates
increase in the asset
The receipt of cash in advance for a customer
increases assets and liabilities
A revenue generally
increases assets and stockholders equity
A revenue account
is increased by credits
A revenue account
is increased with a credit
the dividends account
is increased with debits and decreased with credits
The right side of an account
is the credit side
At the time a company prepays a cost
it debits an asset account to show the service or benefit it will receive in the future.
Which pair of accounts follows the rules of a debit and credit in relation to increases and decreases in the same manner?
Prepaid Insurance and Advertising Expense
Which of the following accounts has a normal credit balance?
Rent Revenue
How do these prepaid expenses expire?
Rent- With the passage of time Supplies -Through use and consumption
Which accounts normally have credit balances?
Revenues, liabilities, and retained earnings.
Which of the following accounts is increased with a credit?
Sales Revenue
A debit is not the normal balance for which account listed below?
Service Revenue
A journal provides
a chronological record of transactions
Recording the adjusting entry for depreciation has the same effect as recording the adjusting entry for
a prepaid expense
An account consists of
a title, a debit side, and a credit side
A T- account
a way of depicting the basic form of an account
After a business transaction has been analyzed and entered in the book of original entry, the next step in the recording process is to transfer the information to
ledger accounts
The primary difference between deferred and accrued expenses is that deferred expenses have
not been incurred and accrued expenses have been incurred
Deferred revenue is revenue that is
not earned but the cash has been recieved
Deferred expenses have
not yet been recorded as expenses
Which of the following is not part of the recording process?
preparing a trial balance
The basic format of a journal would not include a (n)
T-account
Which of the following accounts is increased with a debit?
Dividends
A credit is not the normal balance for which account listed below?
Dividends account
An account is a part of the financial information system and is described by each one of the following except
an account is a source document
Assets normally show
debit balances
In its simplest form, an account consists of all of the following except
explanation column
Which statement about an account is true?
An account is an individual accounting record of increases and decreases in specific asset, liability, and stockholders' equity items.
If a company issues common stock for 40,000 and uses 30,000 of the cash to purchase a truck
Assets will be increased by 40,000
Which of the following represents the expanded basic accounting equation?
Assets+Dividends+Expenses=Liabilities+common stock+revenues
Which accounts normally have debit balances?
Assets, expenses, and dividends.
Which of the following describes the classification and normal balance of the Unearned Rent Revenue account?
Liability, credit
Evidence that would not help with determining the effects of a transaction on the accounts would be an
advertising brochure
Adjustments are often prepared
after the balance sheet date, but dated as of the balance sheet date.
The usual sequence of steps in the recording process is to
analyze each transaction, enter the transaction in the journal, and transfer the information to the ledger accounts
The first step in the recording process is to
analyze the transaction in terms of its effect on the accounts
The usual sequence of steps in the transaction recording process is
analyze, journalize, post to the ledger
The usual sequence of steps in the transaction process is
analyze, journalize, post to the ledger.
If a company buys a 700 machine on credit, this transaction will affect the
balance sheet only
Accrued Expenses have
been incurred, not paid, and not recorded
Accrued expenses have
been incurred, not paid, and not recorded
In the first month of operations, the total of the debit entries to the Cash account amounted to $1,400 and the total of the credit entries to the Cash account amounted to $800. The Cash account has a
c. $600 debit balance. X Solution: $1,400 dr. - $800 cr. = $600 dr. d. $600 credit balance.
An account will have a credit balance if the
credits exceed the debits.
A paid dividend
decreases assets and stockholders equity
The best interpretation of the word "credit" is the
right side of an account
The normal balance of any account is the
side which increases that account
In recording accounting transactions, evidence that a transaction has taken place is obtained from
source documents
The classification and normal balance of the Dividends account is
stockholders equity with a debit balance
Which of the following describes the classification and normal balance of the Retained Earnings account?
stockholders equity, credit
In recording an accounting transaction in a double-entry system
the amount of the debits must equal the amount of the credits
An accountant has debited an asset account for 1,000 and credited a liability account for 500. What can be done to complete the recording of the transaction?
the amount of the debits must equal the amount of the credits.
The left side of an account is
the debit side
Which one of the following is not a part of an account
trial balance
Using accrual accounting, revenue is recorded and reported only
when the services are rendered without regard to when cash is received