会计专业英语试题含答案

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Ⅰ. Identify true (T) or false (F) statements (12X1′=12′)

F . 1. An income statement is a summary of the revenues and expenses of a business as of a specific date.

T 2. Accounting is thought to be the “language of business”because business information is communicated to stakeholders.

F 3. If a building is appraised for $90,000, offered for sale at $95,000, and the buyer pays $85,000 cash for it, the buyer would record the building at $90,000.

F 4. Cash equivalents are short-term highly liquid investment assets that are readily converted to a known cash amount, and have maturities of one year.

F 5. For good internal control over cash, all payments should be made from the petty cash, except for very large payments.

T 6. The aging method of determining bad debts expense is based on the knowledge that the longer a receivable is past due, the lower the likelihood of collection.

F 7. Land improvements are generally charged to the Land account.

T 8. Recording depreciation each period is an application of the matching principle.

T 9. The cost of an inventory item includes its invoice cost minus any discount, and plus any added or incidental costs necessary to put it in a place and condition for sale.

T 10. A consignor who has goods out on consignment with an agent should include the goods in ending inventory even though they are not in the possession of the consignor.

F 11. Whether purchase costs are rising or falling, FIFO always will yield the highest gross profit and net income.

T 12. If the perpetual inventory system is used and a physical count disclosed a shortage, the cost of merchandise sold should be debited and the merchandise inventory account credited.

Ⅱ. Insert “+” for increase and “-”for decrease in the appropriate columns below, based on double-entry bookkeeping rules (6X2′=12′)

Ⅲ. Translate the accounting terms from English to Chinese (No. 1-6) and from Chinese to English (No. 7-10) (10X2′=20′)

1. General journal （总分类账）

2. Accounting elements （会计要素）

3. Closing entries（结账分录）

4. CICPA（中国注册会计师协会）

5. Net realizable value（可变现净值）

6. Accrual-basis accounting （应计制会计）

7. 非流动负债（non-current liabilities）

8. 历史成本（Historical cost）

9. 分类账（ledger）10. 经营周期（Operating cycle）

Ⅳ. Short answer questions (3X6′=18′)

1.What is accounting?

Accounting may be described as the process of identifying, measuring, recording,

and communicating economic information to permit informed judgments and

decisions by users of that information

2.What is depreciation of plant assets? What is the basic purpose of depreciation?

Depreciation, as the term is used in accounting, is the allocation of the cost of a

tangible plant asset to expense in the periods in which services are received from the

asset. In short, the basic purpose of depreciation is to achieve the matching principle

that is, to offset the revenue of an accounting period with the costs of the goods

and services being consumed in the effort to generate that revenue.

3.Identify the tools of financial statement analysis.

The analysis of financial data employs various techniques to emph

asize the

comparative and relative significance of the data presented and to evaluate the

position of the firm. Three commonly used tools are as following.

Horizontal analysis

evaluates a series of financial statement data over a period

of time.

Vertical

analysis evaluates financial statement data by expressing each item in a

financial statement as a percent of a base amount.

Ratio analysis

expresses the relationship among selected items of financial

statement data.

Ⅴ. Problem Solving (38′)

1. Analyze the effects of business transactions on the Accounting Equation. (2X5′=10′)

Transaction (1): paid a $6,500 premium on July 1 for one year’s insurance in advance.

Transaction (2): bought office equipment from Brown Company on account $2,800.

2. Prepare journal entries for the two transactions in No. 1 above-mentioned. (2X5′=10′)

3. Samuel Co. Ltd issued a $15,000, 6%, 9-month note payable. How much is the interest payment at maturity?