This document contains 12 multiple choice questions from an accounting course. It covers topics like the classification and accounting for intangible assets, accounting for business combinations, accrual of liabilities, accounting for sales taxes, and accounting for bonds payable. For each question, it shows the student's answer, whether it was correct or not, and a brief explanation from the instructor.

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1. Question : (TCO C) Under current accounting practice, intangible assets are
classified as
Student Answer:
amortizable or unamortizable.
limited-life or indefinite-life.
specifically identifiable or goodwill-type.
legally restricted or goodwill-type.
Instructor Explanation: Chapter 12
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
2. Question : (TCO C) Which of the following intangible assets should not be
amortized?
Student Answer:
Copyrights
Customer lists
Perpetual franchises
All of these intangible assets should be amortized.
Instructor Explanation: Chapter 12
Points Received: 0 of 5
Comments:
3. Question : (TCO C) The intangible asset goodwill may be
Student Answer:
capitalized only when purchased.
capitalized either when purchased or created internally.
capitalized only when created internally.
written off directly to retained earnings.
Instructor Explanation: Chapter 12

2. Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
4. Question : (TCO C) ELO Corporation purchased a patent for $90,000 on
September 1, 2008. It had a useful life of ten years. On January 1,
2010, ELO spent $22,000 to successfully defend the patent in a
lawsuit. ELO feels that as of that date, the remaining useful life is five
years. What amount should be reported for patent amortization
expense for 2010?
Student Answer:
$20,600.
$20,000.
$18,800.
$15,600.
Instructor Chapter 12. $90,000 – [($90,000 ÷ 10) × 1 1/3] = $78,000.
Explanation: ($78,000 + $22,000) ÷ 5 = $20,000.
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
5. Question : (TCO C) During 2011, Bond Company purchased the net assets of May
Corporation for $1,000,000. On the date of the transaction, May had
$300,000 of liabilities. The fair value of May's assets when acquired
were as follows:
How should the $500,000 difference between the fair value of the net
assets acquired ($1,500,000) and the cost ($1,000,000) be accounted
for by Bond?
Student Answer:
The $500,000 difference should be credited to retained earnings.
The $500,000 difference should be recognized as a gain.
The current assets should be recorded at $540,000 and the
noncurrent assets should be recorded at $760,000.
A deferred credit of $500,000 should be set up and then amortized
to income over a period not to exceed forty years.
Instructor Explanation: Chapter 12. $1,500,000 – $1,000,000 = $500,000 gain.

3. Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
6. Question : (TCO D) Which of the following is a condition for accruing a liability for
the cost of compensation for future absences?
Student Answer:
The obligation relates to the rights that vest or accumulate.
Payment of the compensation is probable.
The obligation is attributable to employee services already
performed.
All of these are conditions for the accrual.
Instructor Explanation: Chapter 13
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
7. Question : (TCO D) Under what conditions is an employer required to accrue a
liability for sick pay?
Student Answer:
Sick pay benefits can be reasonably estimated.
Sick pay benefits vest.
Sick pay benefits equal 100% of the pay.
Sick pay benefits accumulate.
Instructor Explanation: Chapter 13
Points Received: 0 of 5
Comments:
8. Question : (TCO D) Information available prior to the issuance of the financial
statements indicates that it is probable that, at the date of the financial
statements, a liability has been incurred for obligations related to
product warranties. The amount of the loss involved can be reasonably
estimated. Based on the above facts, an estimated loss contingency
should be
Student Answer:
accrued.

4. disclosed but not accrued.
neither accrued nor disclosed.
classified as an appropriation of retained earnings.
Instructor Explanation: Chapter 13
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
9. Question : (TCO D) Stine Co. is a retail store operating in a state with a 6% retail
sales tax. The retailer may keep 2% of the sales tax collected. Stine
Co. records the sales tax in the Sales account. The amount recorded in
the Sales account during May was $148,400.
The amount of sales taxes (to the nearest dollar) for May is
Student Answer:
$8,726.
$8,400.
$8,904.
$9,438.
Instructor Chapter 13. S + .06S = $148,400, S = $140,000.
Explanation: $148,400 – $140,000 = $8,400.
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
10. Question : (TCO D) Vargas Company has 35 employees who work eight-hour
days and are paid hourly. On January 1, 2009, the company began a
program of granting its employees ten days of paid vacation each year.
Vacation days earned in 2009 may first be taken on January 1, 2010.
Information relative to these employees is as follows:
Vargas has chosen to accrue the liability for compensated absences at
the current rates of pay in effect when the compensated time is earned.
What is the amount of the accrued liability for compensated absences
that should be reported at December 31, 2011?

5. Student Answer:
$94,920.
$90,720.
$79,800.
$95,760.
Instructor Chapter 13. ($28.50 × 8 × 10 × 35) + ($27.00 × 8 × 2 × 35) = $94,920.
Explanation:
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
11. Question : (TCO D) Reich, Inc. issued bonds with a maturity amount of $200,000
and a maturity ten years from date of issue. If the bonds were issued at
a premium, this indicates that
Student Answer:
the effective yield or market rate of interest exceeded the stated
(nominal) rate.
the nominal rate of interest exceeded the market rate.
the market and nominal rates coincided.
no necessary relationship exists between the two rates.
Instructor Explanation: Chapter 14
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
12. Question : (TCO D) The printing costs and legal fees associated with the issuance
of bonds should
Student Answer:
be expensed when incurred.
be reported as a deduction from the face amount of bonds
payable.
be accumulated in a deferred charge account and amortized over
the life of the bonds.
not be reported as an expense until the period the bonds mature
or are retired.

6. Instructor Explanation: Chapter 14
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
13. Question : (TCO D) Feller Company issues $20,000,000 of ten-year, 9% bonds on
March 1, 2010 at 97 plus accrued interest. The bonds are dated
January 1, 2010, and pay interest on June 30 and December 31. What
is the total cash received on the issue date?
Student Answer:
$19,400,000
$20,450,000
$19,700,000
$19,100,000
Instructor Chapter 14. ($20,000,000 × .97) + ($1,800,000 × 2/12) = $19,700,000.
Explanation:
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
14. Question : (TCO D) A company issues $20,000,000, 7.8%, 20-year bonds to yield
8% on January 1, 2010. Interest is paid on June 30 and December 31.
The proceeds from the bonds are $19,604,145. What is interest
expense for 2011, using straight-line amortization?
Student Answer:
$1,540,207
$1,560,000
$1,569,192
$1,579,793
Instructor Chapter 14.. ($20,000,000 × .078) + ($395,855 ÷ 20) = $1,579,793.
Explanation:
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
15. Question : (TCO D) On January 1, Martinez Inc. issued $3,000,000, 11% bonds

7. for $3,195,000. The market rate of interest for these bonds is 10%.
Interest is payable annually on December 31. Martinez uses the
effective-interest method of amortizing bond premium. At the end of the
first year, Martinez should report unamortized bond premium of:
Student Answer:
$185,130
$184,500
$173,550
$165,000
Instructor Chapter 14.. ($3,000,000 × .11) – ($3,195,000 × .10) = $10,500
Explanation: ($3,195,000 – $3,000,000) – $10,500 = $184,500.
Points Received: 5 of 5
Comments:
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