Free AICPA AICPA-CPA Exam Questions

Gareth, a sales tax registered trader purchased a computer for use in his business. The invoice for the computer showed the following costs related to the purchase: $ Computer 890 Additional memory 95 Delivery 10 Installation 20 Maintenance (1 year) 25 –––––– 1,040 Sales tax (17·5%) 182 –––––– Total 1,222 –––––– How much should Gareth capitalise as a non-current asset in relation to the purchase?

Select all that apply: When applying the revenue test to determine if a segment is a reportable segment, the segment's revenues are compared to the total for the entity. Which of the following revenue items should be included in the revenue calculation?

The target capital structure of Cerberus Co. is 50% debt, 10% preferred equity, and 40% common equity. The interest rate on debt is 8%, the yield on the preferred is 10%, the cost of common equity is 12%, and the tax rate is 40%. Cerberus does not anticipate issuing any new stock. What is Cerberus' weighted-average cost of capital?

Brick Co. has considerable excess manufacturing capacity. A special order's cost sheet includes the following applied manufacturing overhead costs: fixed, $18,000; variable, $43,000. The fixed costs include a normal $3,600 allocation for in-house design costs although no in-house design will be done. Instead, the job will require the use of external designers costing $4,500. What is the total amount to be included in the calculation to determine the minimum acceptable price for the special order?

Which TWO of the following errors would cause the total of the debit column and the total of the credit column of a trial balance not to agree? (1) A transposition error was made when entering a sales invoice into the sales day book (2) A cheque received from a customer was credited to cash and correctly recognised in receivables (3) A purchase of non-current assets was omitted from the accounting records (4) Rent received was included in the trial balance as a debit balance