0452/22/O/N/23 Question Paper – Accounting Oct/Nov 2023 Paper 22

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ACCOUNTING

0452/22

Paper 2 Structured Written Paper

October/November 2023
1 hour 45 minutes

You must answer on the question paper.
No additional materials are needed.
INSTRUCTIONS
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Answer all questions.
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INFORMATION
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The total mark for this paper is 100.
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The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
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Where you are asked to complete a layout, you may not need all the lines for your answer.

This document has 20 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.
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Seok buys and sells goods on credit. He has three credit customers and allows one of them,
Naomi, trade discount of 10%. All customers pay Seok by bank transfer.
The following balances were extracted from Seok’s sales ledger at 1 August 2023.
$
450
155
386
991

Naomi
Siena
Bwana

The following transactions took place in August 2023.
Aug 3

Sold goods on credit, to Naomi, list price $410

Sold goods on credit, $89, to Bwana

Naomi returned goods, list price $20

Naomi paid $423 in full settlement of the amount she owed at 1 August

Sold goods on credit, $180, to Bwana

Sold goods on credit, to Naomi, list price $230

Bwana returned goods, $19

Bwana paid $400

REQUIRED
(a) Prepare the sales journal for August 2023.
Total the journal and indicate the ledger account where the total would be posted.
Seok
Sales journal
Date

Details

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(b) Prepare the sales returns journal for August 2023.
Total the journal and indicate the ledger account where the total would be posted.
Seok
Sales returns journal
Date

Details

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(c) Prepare the account for Naomi for August 2023 as it would appear in the books of Seok.
Balance the account and bring down the balance at 1 September 2023.
Seok
Naomi account
Date

Details

Date

Details

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On 31 August Seok decided to write off the amount owing by Siena as an irrecoverable debt.
REQUIRED
(d) Prepare Seok’s sales ledger control account for August 2023. Balance the account and bring
down the balance at 1 September 2023.
Seok
Sales ledger control account
Date

Details

Date

Details

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Sara owns a clothing factory. She sells the clothing to a small number of local shops.
She allows 30 days credit.
At 30 September 2023, Sara’s ledger account balances included the following.
Inventory at 1 October 2022
Raw materials
Work in progress
Finished goods
Purchases of raw materials
Wages
Machine operators
Factory supervisor
Delivery vehicle driver
Rates and insurance
General factory expenses
Factory machinery – at cost
Factory machinery – provision for depreciation
Trade receivables
Cash at bank

$
4 875
8 125
12 890
56 400
43 300
25 000
14 250
29 600
9 650
80 000
35 000
27 000
1 050

Additional information
1.

Inventory at 30 September 2023
Raw material
Work in progress
Finished goods

At 30 September 2023 general factory expenses of $335 were unpaid.

Insurance of $8000 had been paid for the year July 2023 to June 2024.

Rates and insurance are to be apportioned equally between the factory and the office.

Factory machinery is depreciated at 25% per annum using the reducing balance method.

5 110
7 365
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REQUIRED
(a) Prepare Sara’s manufacturing account for the year ended 30 September 2023.
Sara
Manufacturing Account for the year ended 30 September 2023
$

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(b) Prepare the current assets section of Sara’s statement of financial position at
30 September 2023.
Sara
Statement of financial position (current assets section) at 30 September 2023
$

Sara’s factory supervisor is very efficient at running the factory.

[3]

REQUIRED
(c) State which accounting principle Sara is complying with by not recording any value for this
efficiency in her financial statements.
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Sara has now been asked to supply a local drama school with theatrical costumes. The drama
school would place an order with Sara each month and would require 60 days credit.
REQUIRED
(d) Advise Sara whether she should start supplying the drama school with costumes. Justify your
answer by providing advantages and disadvantages of supplying the costumes.

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Lionel started trading on 1 July 2022. He paid $15 000 of his own personal money into the business
bank account. He did not keep full accounting records but has supplied the following information
at 30 June 2023.
1.

Cash sales of $90 000 were made and paid into the bank. No other money was received.
Lionel marks up his goods by 50%.

Payments from the bank:

$
8 000
55 000
8 060
1 140
5 585
4 992
14 600

Purchase of motor vehicle (van)
Payments to credit suppliers
Wages
General expenses
Rent and insurance
Motor expenses
Cash drawn from bank
3.

Purchases returns amounted to $3000.

Inventory at 30 June 2023 was valued at $4175.

One third of the motor expenses paid were for Lionel’s private car.

A full year’s depreciation at 25% is to be charged on the van using the reducing balance
method.

Lionel withdrew $1000 each month from the business cash, for personal use. The remaining
cash drawn from the bank was used to pay wages.

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REQUIRED

(a) Prepare Lionel’s income statement for the year ended 30 June 2023.
Lionel
Income Statement for the year ended 30 June 2023
$

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(b) Prepare Lionel’s capital account for the year ended 30 June 2023. Balance the account and
bring down the balance at 1 July 2023.
Lionel
Capital account
Date

Details

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(c) State one reason why Lionel should keep double-entry bookkeeping records.
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Lionel currently makes cash sales only. He would like to start selling on credit and is considering
whether to offer a 10% trade discount to regular customers or a 3% discount for payment within
21 days.
REQUIRED
(d) Advise Lionel whether he should offer the 10% trade discount or the 3% cash discount.
Justify your answer.

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Rachel is a trader.
The totals of Rachel’s trial balance prepared on 30 September 2023 did not agree and the
difference was placed in a suspense account.
Rachel later discovered the errors shown in the following table.
REQUIRED
(a) Complete the following table to show the entries required to correct each error. The first one
has been completed as an example.
Entries required to correct the error
Error

Debit

Credit

Account

A payment for rent, $350, had been
debited to the wages account.

Rent
payable

350

Wages

350

The sales journal for September had
been overcast by $90.

A payment for office expenses, $18,
had been recorded in the office
expenses account as $81.

A petty cash book payment, $29, to
Cole, a supplier, had been recorded
in the column for motor expenses.

Sales returns, $110, had been
recorded as purchases returns.

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(b) Prepare the suspense account. Include the balancing figure as the original difference on the
trial balance.
Rachel
Suspense account
Date

Details

Date

Details

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Rachel’s draft profit before the errors were discovered was $18 243.
REQUIRED
(c) Calculate Rachel’s profit for the year ended 30 September 2023 after the errors in the table
have been corrected.

[5]
(d) State why financial statements may still be reliable even if errors are present.

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Nala is a retailer who sells toys and games. All sales are on a cash basis and all purchases are on
credit.
She has provided the following information.
At 31 August 2023:
Inventory
Cash at bank
Trade payables
Capital

$
6 265
992
4 880
125 000

For the year to 31 August 2023:
Revenue

98 420

Purchases

78 130

Expenses

11 325

Inventory at 1 September 2022 was valued at $6175.
REQUIRED
(a) Complete the following table.
Ratio

Working

Answer (to 2
decimal places )

Gross margin

Profit margin

Return on capital
employed (ROCE)
Rate of inventory
turnover (times)
Liquid (acid test)
ratio
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Nala increased her advertising expenses over the year to 31 August 2023 and sells at a lower
price than her nearest competitor. This has resulted in Nala selling her inventory faster than her
nearest competitor. Nala and her nearest competitor buy inventory at the same prices. Nala is
pleased with her results.
REQUIRED
(b) Explain why Nala should not be entirely pleased with her results.

[3]
Nala is planning to expand her business and to take out a bank loan to finance the expansion. The
loan would be repayable after five years.
REQUIRED
(c) Advise Nala whether she should obtain a bank loan to expand the business. Justify your
answer by providing two points for and two points against obtaining the bank loan to expand
the business.

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(d) State why Nala’s bank manager would be interested in her financial statements if she requests
the loan.

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