1. The personal assets of the owner of a company will not appear on the company's balance sheet because of which principle/guideline?

2. Which principle/guideline requires a company's balance sheet to report its land at the amount the company paid to acquire the land, even if the land could be sold today at a significantly higher amount?

3. Which principle/guideline allows a company to ignore the change in the purchasing power of the A shilling over time?

4. Which principle/guideline requires the company's financial statements to have footnotes containing information that is important to users of the financial statements?

5. Which princiimmaterial.ne justifies a company violating an accounting principle because the amounts are immaterial?

6. Which principle/guideline is associated with the assumption that the company will continue on long enough to carry out its objectives and commitments?

7. A very large corporation's financial statements have the Shilling amounts rounded to the nearest Sh.1,000. Which accounting principle/guideline justifies not reporting the amounts to the penny?

8. Accountants might recognize losses but not gains in certain situations. For example, the company might write down the cost of inventory, but will not write-up the cost of inventory. Which principle/guideline is associated with this action?

9. Which principle/guideline directs a company to show all the expenses related to its revenues of a specified period even if the expenses were not paid in that period?

10. When the accountant has to choose between two acceptable alternatives, the accountant should select the alternative that will report less profit, less asset amount, or a greater liability amount. This is based upon which principle/guideline?

11. Public utilities' balance sheets list the plant assets before the current assets. This is acceptable under which accounting principle/guideline?

12. A large company purchases a Sh.250,000 digital camera and expenses it immediately instead of recording it as an asset and depreciating it over its useful life. This practice may be acceptable because of which principle/guideline?

13. A corporation pays its annual property tax bill of approximately sh.120,000 in one payment each December 28. During the year, the corporation's monthly income statements report Property Tax Expense of Sh.100,000. This is an example of which accounting principle/guideline?

14. A company sold merchandise of Sh.8,000 to a customer in December. The company's sales terms require the customer to pay the company in 30 days. The company's income statement reported the sale in December. This is proper under which accounting principle/guideline?

15. The creative chief executive of a corporation who is personally responsible for numerous inventions and innovations is not reported as an asset on the corporation's balance sheet. The accounting principle/guideline that prevents the corporation for reporting this person as an asset is?

16. An asset with a cost of Sh.120,000 is depreciated over its useful life of 10 years rather than expensing the entire amount when it is purchased. This complies with which principle/guideline?

17. Near the end of the current year, a company required a customer to pay Sh.200,000 as a deposit for work that is to begin in the following year. At the end of the current year the company reported Sh.200,000 as a liability on its balance sheet. Which accounting principle/guideline prevented the company from reporting the Sh.200,000 on its income statement for the current year?

18. A retailer wishes to report its merchandise inventory on its balance sheet at its retail value. This would violate which accounting principle/guideline?

19. A company borrowed Sh.100,000 in December and will make its only payment for interest when the note comes due six months later. The total interest for the six months will be Sh.3,600. On the December income statement, the accountant reported Interest Expense of Sh.600. This action was the result of which accounting principle/guideline?