Chapter – 6
DEPRECIATION
Encircle the most appropriate answer among the following options:
1. Depreciation is an:
- Expense
- Liability
- Revenue
- Income
2. The gradual decrease in the efficiency of an asset is called:
- Appreciation
- Depletion
- Amortization
- Depreciation
3. The permanent and continuous diminution in the quality, q of an asset:
- Appreciation
- Depletion
- Amortization
- Depreciation‘
4. Depreciation means:
- Exhaustion of the effective life of an asset
- Diminution in intrinsic value of an asset
- Reduction in the value of fixed asset due to use in business
- All of the above
5. Depreciation which occurs upto certain åfferent normal causes is known as:
- Internal depreciation
- Seasonal depreciation
- External depreciation
- All of these
6. The physical deterioration In asset due to use in business
- Depletion
- Accident
- Obsolescence
- Wear and tear
7. Internal causes of depreciation:
- Depletion
- Wear and tear
- Obsolescence
- 1 and 2
8. Decline in the value proportionate to the quantum of production
- Depletion
- Accident
- Obsolescence
- All of these
9. External causes of depreciation:
- Depletion
- Accident
- Obsolescence
- All of the above
10. Decrease In the value of an asset due to change in habit or taste of people
- Depletion
- Accident
- Obsolescence
- Wear and tear
11. We Write depreciation on the
- Debit side of trading account
- Credit side of profit and loss account
- Debit side of profit and loss account
- Credit side of trading account
12. The need for provisions of depreciation Is necessary to:
- Ascertainment of true profit or loss
- Ascertainment of true cost of production
- Replacement of assets
- All of the above
13. If depreciation is not taken into account the value of assets in the books
- May be more
- May be less
- No changes
- 1 & 2
14. Depreciation
- Reduces productive activity
- Is a regular loss
- Reduction of value of assets gradually
- All of the above
15. Depreciation charged on :
- Current assets only
- Fixed asset
- Both 1&2
- None of these
16. According to provisions of company’s ordinance 1984 dividend cannot be declared without:
- Appreciation
- Depreciation
- Amortization
- Tax
17. Depreciation occurs
- Up to one year
- Up to two years
- Till the last day of the estimated working life of asset
- Up to the replacement of old asset
18. depreciation is charged on:
- Fixed assets only
- Fictitious assets only
- Current assets only
- Wasting assets only
19. Depreciation is a charge against
- Expense
- Revenue
- Liability
- Capital
20.depreciation may be ascertained exactly in case of
- Leasehold property
- Machinery
- Patent rights
- 1 & 3
21 Depreciation of an asset should not exceed
- Original cost
- Depreciation value
- Market value
- Scrap value
22 Decrease in value of Intangible assets is known as
- Depreciation
- Amortisation
- Depletion
- Appreciation
23 The value of asset at the end of the year will be
- Scrap value
- Market value
- Original value
- None of these
24. All expenses involved in carrying and installing he asset to the site
- Cost Price of an asset
- Market price of an asset
- Sale price of an asset
- Scrap value of an asset
25. The period during which the asset will help in earning income of business in
known as
- Consumed life
- Exhausted life
- Working life
- None of these
26.The decrease in the value of trademark, copyright, patent etc is termed as:
- Depreciation
- Amortization
- Reconstruction
- Depletion
27. The decrease in the value of mines, quarries etc, termed as:
- Depreciation
- Depletion
- Amortization
- Reconstruction
28. The term depreciation is used with reference to:
- Tangible assets
- Currents assets
- Intangible assets
- Fixed asset
29. The change in shape of an asset due to friction, movement etc.is known as:
- Accident
- External cause
- Wear and tear
- Obsolescence
30. The decrease in the value of an asset on account of sheer passage of time is:
- Accident
- Efflux of time
- Wear and tear
- Obsolescence
31. Due to fluctuation in the market prices, the value of an assets
- May not change
- May increase
- May decrease
- 2 and 3
32. Which one of the following asset is to be appreciated in value:
- Land
- Furniture
- Building
- Machinery
33. Scrap value is also known as
- Residual value
- Break- up value
- 1 and 2
- None of these
34. Under straight line method the amount of depreciation
- Decreases every year
- Increases every year
- Constant every year
- 1 and 2
35.In fixed installment method, depreciation is calculated on:
- Book value
- Original cost
- Market price
- a and b
36. The method in which depreciation of an asset is equal each year:
- Straight line method
- Diminishing balance method
- Reducing balance method
- All of these
37 Under reducing balance method, the depreciation is always charged on
- Original cost
- Break- up value
- Book value
- Residual value
38. Reducing balance method is also known as
- Diminishing balance method
- Written down value method
- Book value method
- All of these
39. Under diminishing balance method amount of annual åepreciation gradually
- Decrease
- COnstant
- Increase
- No change
40. Diminishing balance method is suitable for those assets which have
- Long life
- Average life
- Short life
- Temporary life
41. Which one of the wasting asset
- Land
- Mines
- Goodwill
- Patent
42. Which one of the tangible asset:
- Goodwill
- Copyright
- Trade mark
- Machinery
43. which one of the intangible asset:
- Goodwill
- Copyright
- Trade mark
- All of these
44. This method is used by income tax authorities for granting depreciation allowance to taxpayers
- Straight line method
- Fixed installment method
- Reducing balance method
- All of these:
45.depreciation arises because of
- Physical wear and tear
- Fall in the market value of an asset
- Fluctuation
- None of these