State whether the following statements are True or False
- A business transaction not necessarily involves an exchange of money or money’s worth.
- Business transactions are classified into Cash Transactions, Credit Transactions and Non-cash Transactions.
- Depreciation is a credit transaction.
- Only one account is prepared for all transactions and it is not prepared for each and every item.
- Credit transactions are always nominal account.
- Accounts of legal entities in the nature of limited companies accounts belong to groups or representative personal accounts.
- Goodwill is a tangible account.
- Bad debt is a nominal account.
- Valuation accounts are also known as Contra Accounts.
- Interest received in advance is a Personal Account.
- Insurance Premium Account is a Personal Account.
- The giving and receiving aspects take place between accounts and in different account books and not in the same set of books.
- The giving and receiving aspects of a business transaction must be recorded simultaneously and at the same time.
- Double Entry System means recording each transaction twice.
- Every debit must have a corresponding credit
- A Goods account is generally not opened.
- In accounting, transactions are recorded on the basis of business entity concept.
- The business transactions are not recorded chronologically.
- The terms “General Journal” and “Journal Paper” both denote the same meaning.
- A Journal is a permanent record of the business
- Each transaction is provided with an explanation (written at the end of transaction briefly within brackets) is referred to as “narration.”
- The application of debit-credit rules do not apply to American approach of journalising.
- The accounts with the balances in the previous year, comprising Real and Personal Accounts are entered in the new books of account with the help of “Opening Entry.”
- In an Accounting Equation Approach, transactions are analysed in terms of variables: assets, liabilities, capital, revenues and expenses.
- In an Accounting Equation Approach, decrease in an asset item is debited
- In an Accounting Equation Approach, decrease in liability is debited
- In an Accounting Equation Approach, increase in Capital is debited
- In an Accounting Equation Approach, increase in an expense item is debited
- Increase in an income item is debited as per American procedure.
- Journal entry will be the same for both the conventional approach and accounting equation approach in recording business transactions.