ACC 201 Exam 3 Chapters 7&8

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Sellers allow customers to use credit cards to pay for products and services for all of the following reasons except:
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To be able to charge more due to fees and interest
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Which of the following is not true regarding a credit card expense?
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Credit card expense is not recorded by the seller
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A promissory note received from a customer in exchange for an account receivable is recorded by the payee as:
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A note receivable
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The person who signs a note receivable and promises to pay the principal and interest is the:
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Payee
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A promissory note:
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Is a written promise to pay a specified amount of money at a certain date
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Reporting the details of notes is consistent with which accounting principle that requires financial statements (including footnotes) to report all relevant information?
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Full Disclosure
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A finance company or bank that purchases and takes ownership of another company's accounts receivable is called a:
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Factor
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Factoring receivables is beneficial to a seller for all of the following reasons except:
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There are no fees for factoring.
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The account receivable turnover measures:
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How often, on average, receivables are received and collected during the period.
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The accounts receivable turnover is calculated by:
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Dividing net sales by average accounts receivable
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The matching principle, as applied to bad debts, requires:
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The use of the allowance method of accounting for bad debts
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The materiality constraint, as applied to bad debts:
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Permits the use of the direct write-off method when bad debts expenses are relatively small
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If the credit balance of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts account exceeds the amount of a bad debt being written off, the entry to record the write-off against the allowance account results in:
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No effect on the expenses of the current period.
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A method of estimating bad debts expense that involves a detailed examination of outstanding accounts and the length of time past due is the:
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Aging of accounts receivable method.
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Honoring a note receivable indicates that the maker has:
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Paid in full.
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Failure by a promissory notes' maker to pay the amount due at maturity is known as:
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Dishonoring a note.
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Amounts owed by customers from credit sales for which payment is required in periodic amounts over an extended time period are referred to as:
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Installment Accounts Receivable
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Plant assets are defined as:
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Tangible assets that have a useful life of more than one accounting period and are used in the operation of a business.
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The relevant factors in computing depreciation do not include:
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Market value.
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Salvage value is:
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An estimate of the asset's value at the end of its benefit period.
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Depreciation:
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Is the process of allocating the cost of a plant asset to expense.
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The useful life of a plant asset is:
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The length of time it is productively used in a company's operations.
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A benefit of using an accelerated depreciation method is that:
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It yields larger depreciation expense in the early years of an asset's life.
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The modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS):
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Is an allowed depreciation method for U.S. federal income tax purposes
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The straight-line depreciation method and the double-declining-balance depreciation method:
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Produce the same total depreciation over an asset's useful life.
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Land improvements are:
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Assets that increase the usefulness of land, but that have a limited useful life and are subject to depreciation
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Which of the following are not classified as plant assets?
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Patent.
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The total cost of an asset less its accumulated depreciation is called:
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Book value.
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The depreciation method that allocates a varying amount of a plant asset's cost to expense for each period depending on its usage is called:
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Units-of-production depreciation
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The depreciation method in which a plant asset's depreciation expense for a period is determined by applying a constant depreciation rate to the asset's beginning-of-period book value is called:
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Declining-balance depreciation.
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The depreciation method that produces larger depreciation expense during the early years of an asset's life and smaller expense in the later years is a(an):
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Accelerated depreciation method`
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Extraordinary repairs:
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Extend the useful life of an asset beyond its original estimate.
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Which of the following is an example of an extraordinary repair?
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Replacing the roof on a manufacturing warehouse.
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Ordinary repairs meet all of the following criteria except:
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Extend the useful life of an asset beyond its original estimate.
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Betterments are:
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Expenditures making a plant asset more efficient or productive.
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Which of the following is an example of a betterment?
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Adding an automatic sorter to a copy machine
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Holding a copyright:
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Gives its owner the exclusive right to publish and sell a musical or literary work during the life of the creator plus 70 years.
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Amortization is:
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The systematic allocation of the cost of an intangible asset to expense over its estimated useful life.
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Intangible assets do not include:
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Land held as an investment.
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Owning a patent:
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Gives the owner exclusive rights to manufacture and sell a patented item or to use a process for 20 years.
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The specific meaning of goodwill in accounting is:
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The amount by which a company's value exceeds the value of its individual assets and liabilities