WorksheetsCh 9 Accounting for Purchases and Cash Payments
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
A purchase of merchandise for cash would be posted
as part of column totals to Purchases and Accounts Payable
individually to Purchases and individually to Accounts Payable
individually to Purchases
as part of a column total to Purchases
A transaction to record merchandise purchased with a trade discount would include a debit to Merchandise Discount.
true
false
The Purchases account is classified as a(n)
cost of goods sold account
expense account
asset account
liability account
A periodic inventory conducted by counting, weighing, or measuring items of merchandise on hand is called a(n)
perpetual inventory
inventory certification
audit verification
physical inventory
The petty cash account Cash Short and Over is a temporary account.
true
false
A corporation can own property, incur liabilities, and enter into contracts in its own name.
true
false
The periodic inventory method does not require records of the quantity and cost of individual goods.
true
false
Supplies bought for the use in a business are recorded in the
Supplies Expense account
Purchases account
Supplies account
Cash account
Since contra accounts are offsets to their related accounts, contra account normal balances are
debits
credits
opposite the normal balances of their related accounts
the same as the normal balances of their related accounts
An employee working with an account can trace a transaction back to the correct journal by using information in the
Post. Ref. column
Item column
Purch. No. column
Vendor column
A deduction that a vendor allows on a an invoice amount to encourage prompt payments
cash discount
trade discount
contra account
purchase order
An agreement between a buyer and a seller about payment for merchandise
trade discount
credit limit
terms of sale
payment agreement
A merchandise inventory evaluated at the end of a fiscal period
perpetual inventory
periodic inventory
A journal amount column that is not headed with an account title
controlling account
contra account
special journal
general amount column
The total of accounts in the accounts payable subsidiary ledger equals the balance of the controlling account, Accounts Payable.
true
false
