Accounting Concepts
A. Write the letter of your answer before each number or item.
   B. 1. Employees are residual claimants of the profits of the business, i.e., they have to
   take what is left after paying all outside claimants such as suppliers, lenders, and
   government.
            (a) True
            (b) False
   B. 2. Who among the following would be interested in a company's financial information
   for the sake of resource allocation, formulation of taxation policies and investigation of
   corporate crimes?
          (a) Current employees
          (b) Past employees
          (c) Senior managers
          (d) Government
   A. 3. _______ provide the risk capital to a business?
           (a) Shareholders
           (b) Lenders
           (c) Employees
           (d) Credit Rating Agencies
   B. 4. What does the accounting assumption 'reporting entity' mean?
          (a) The entity is a continuing enterprise
          (b) Separation of owners' business transactions from their personal transactions
          (c) Valuation of entity's assets
          (d) Breaking up the life of the entity into time periods
   C. 5. What does the accounting assumption 'historical cost' mean?
          (a) The entity is a continuing enterprise
          (b) Separation of owners' business transactions from their personal transactions
          (c) Valuation of entity's assets at cost of acquisition
          (d) Breaking up the life of the entity into time periods
   B. 6. The __________ assumption is an extension of the going concern assumption.
           (a) Historical cost
           (b) Periodicity
           (c) Money measurement
           (d) Reporting entity
B. Determine if the given is a/n Asset, Liability, Capital, Income or Expense.
    1. Prepaid Insurance                           Asset
    2. Light and Water                             Asset
    3. Employees' Salaries                         Liability
    4. Accounts Payable                            Liability
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          5. Mr. Bruno, Capital                          Capital
          6. Accounts Receivable                         Asset
          7. Service Revenue                             Income
          8. Service Equipment                           Asset
          9. Bonds Payable                               Liability
          10. Office Supplies                            Asset
    C. For each item, indicate whether it is a Current Asset (CA), Non-Current Asset
       (NCA), Current Liability (CL), or Non-Current Liability (NCL).
          1. Inventories                                 CA
          2. Prepaid Advertising                         CA
          3. Accounts Payable                            CL
          4. Bonds Payable, 3 yrs.                       NCL
          5. Accrued Rent Receivable                     CA
          6. Cash in Bank                                CA
          7. Land                                        NCA
          8. Building                                    CA
          9. Delivery Equipment                          NCA
          10. Accounts Receivable                        NCA
D. Case Problem. The following accounts pertain to the records of Sharkbait Company at the
end of the accounting period:
Assets                  Php 1,200,000         Revenues               Php 500,000
Liabilities             Php         ?         Expenses               Php 300,000
The company started the year with Php800,000 Capital. The owner made P100,000 cash
withdrawals during the year. No additional contributions were made. How much is the total
liabilities at the end of the period?
                                     Liabilities = Assets – Equity
 Liabilities = Php 1,200,000 – Php 800,000
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Liabilities = Php 400,000 + Php 100,000
                                          Total Liabilities = Php 500,000.00