1. [单选题]24 What figure should appear in the consolidated balance sheet of the J group as at 31 December 2004 for minority
interest?
A. $32,000
B. $16,000
C. $10,000
D. $24,000
2. [单选题]13 Which of the following correctly describes the imprest system for operating petty cash?
A. A
B. All expenditure out of petty cash must be supported by a properly authorised voucher.
C. A regular equal amount of cash is transferred into petty cash.
D. The exact amount of expenditure out of petty cash is reimbursed at intervals.
E. A budget is fixed for a period which petty cash expenditure must not exceed.
3. [单选题]Mr Li, a photographer, had his photos published in the July 2014 edition of the tourism journal. The total fee was RMB20,000 and the publisher agreed to pay Mr Li by two instalments, one of RMB18,000 in June 2014 and the balance of RMB2,000 in August 2014. The same photos were republished by the government in a promotion brochure in August 2014 and Mr Li was paid a further fee of RMB3,000 by the government.
A. What is the total amount of individual income tax (IIT) which Mr Li will pay on the above incomes?
B. RMB2,492
C. RMB2,576
D. RMB2,548
E. RMB3,680
4. [单选题]The following statements have been made about life cycle costing:
A. (i) It focuses on the short-term by identifying costs at the beginning of a product’s life cycle
B. (ii) It identifies all costs which arise in relation to the product each year and then calculates the product’s profitability on an annual basis
C. (iii) It accumulates a product’s costs over its whole life time and works out the overall profitability of a product
D. (iv) It allocates costs to each stage of a product’s life cycle and writes them off at the end of each stage
E. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
F. (i) and (iii)
G. (iii) only
H. (i) and (iv)
I. (ii) only
5. [单选题]14 Alpha buys goods from Beta. At 30 June 2005 Beta’s account in Alpha’s records showed $5,700 owing to Beta.
Beta submitted a statement to Alpha as at the same date showing a balance due of $5,200. Which of the following could account fully for the difference?
A. Alpha has sent a cheque to Beta for $500 which has not yet been received by Beta.
B. The credit side of Beta’s account in Alpha’s records has been undercast by $500.
C. An invoice for $250 from Beta has been treated in Alpha’s records as if it had been a credit note.
D. Beta has issued a credit note for $500 to Alpha which Alpha has not yet received.
6. [单选题]A company predicted that the learning rate for production of a new product would be 80%. The actual learning rate was 75%. The following possible reasons were stated for this:
A. (i) The number of new employees recruited was lower than expected
B. (ii) Unexpected problems were encountered with production
C. (iii) Unexpected changes to Health and Safety laws meant that the company had to increase the number of breaks during production for employees
D. Which of the above reasons could have caused the difference between the expected rate of learning and the actual rate of learning?
E. All of the above
F. (ii) and (iii) only
G. (i) only
H. None of the above
7. [单选题]17 A business income statement for the year ended 31 December 2004 showed a net profit of $83,600. It was later
found that $18,000 paid for the purchase of a motor van had been debited to motor expenses account. It is the company’s policy to depreciate motor vans at 25 per cent per year, with a full year’s charge in the year of acquisition. What would the net profit be after adjusting for this error?
A. $106,100
B. $70,100
C. $97,100
D. $101,600
8. [单选题]10 What would the company’s profit become after the correction of the above errors?
A. $634,760
B. $624,760
C. $624,440
D. $625,240
9. [单选题]15 Which of the following statements about intangible assets are correct?
1 If certain criteria are met, research expenditure must be recognised as an intangible asset. 2 Goodwill may not be revalued upwards. 3 Internally generated goodwill should not be capitalised.
A. 2 and 3 only
B. 1 and 3 only
C. 1 and 2 only
D. All three statements are correct
10. [单选题]A corporate taxpayer has under-reported its taxable revenue in 2002 and hence underpaid value added tax (VAT) and enterprise income tax (EIT). In 2014, the taxpayer was charged by the tax authority with committing an act of tax evasion in 2002.
A. Which of the following statements is correct?
B. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes due, plus a late payment surcharge and a penalty
C. There is no need for the taxpayer to pay any additional taxes, late payment surcharge or penalty as the statute of limitation is ten years
D. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes, but no late payment surcharge or penalty as the statute of limitation is ten years for late payment surcharge and penalties
E. The taxpayer must pay the additional taxes and a late payment surcharge but not a penalty as the statute of limitation is five years for penalties