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WAEC Financial Accounting: practice questions.
12 free questions with answers and explanations, plus the topics to revise.
Below are free WAEC Financial Accounting practice questions with answers and explanations. They are original eZine questions, written and reviewed by teachers in the style of the WAEC WASSCE; we do not publish past questions. eZine's published WAEC Financial Accounting bank holds 169 questions across 35 topics (counted 29 October 2026); the largest topics are Accounts for Clubs and Societies, Bank Reconciliation Statement, Correction of Errors in Accounting.
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WAEC Financial Accounting practice questions
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Question 1 · Accounting Ethics
An accountant in Kaduna who keeps up to date with new IFRS requirements through continuing education is observing the principle of
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Answer: A. professional competence and due care
Maintaining knowledge and skill to serve clients properly is professional competence and due care. Confidentiality protects client information; objectivity avoids bias; integrity means honesty — none is specifically about keeping skills current.
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Question 2 · Business Documents
A supplier in Aba undercharged a customer by ₦12,000 on an invoice. To correct this, the supplier sends a
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Answer: A. debit note
A debit note increases the amount the customer owes, correcting an undercharge. A credit note reduces the debt; a receipt acknowledges payment; a statement summarises the account without correcting it.
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Question 3 · The Cash Book (II)
Cash of ₦200,000 was withdrawn from the bank for office use. In the cash book this is recorded as
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Answer: C. debit cash, credit bank (contra)
Cash in hand increases (debit cash) and bank decreases (credit bank); both entries are within the cash book — a contra marked "C". The reverse is a deposit; single or same-side entries break double entry.
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Question 4 · Trading Account of a Sole Trader
A trader's sales were ₦2,800,000 and gross profit ₦700,000. Gross profit as a percentage of sales is
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Answer: B. 25%
₦700,000 ÷ ₦2,800,000 × 100 = 25%. 33.3% is mark-up on cost (₦700,000 ÷ ₦2,100,000); 75% is cost of sales as a percentage of sales; 20% has no basis here.
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Question 5 · The Trial Balance
The following balances were extracted from the books of Bisola: capital ₦1,765,000; sales ₦3,420,000; purchases ₦2,150,000; premises ₦1,800,000; debtors ₦640,000; creditors ₦380,000; bank overdraft ₦210,000; salaries ₦520,000; inventory 1 January ₦410,000; drawings ₦300,000; discount received ₦45,000. The trial balance totals are
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Answer: A. debit ₦5,820,000; credit ₦5,820,000
Debits: purchases, premises, debtors, salaries, inventory and drawings = ₦5,820,000. Credits: capital, sales, creditors, overdraft and discount received = ₦5,820,000. The trial balance agrees. Placing the overdraft, drawings or discount received on the wrong side gives the other totals.
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Question 6 · Corporate Governance
Which practice best promotes accountability in a public company in Nigeria?
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Answer: A. Having an audit committee and independent non-executive directors on the board
Independent directors and an audit committee provide checks on management. Concentrating roles in one person, hiding reports or unapproved pay weaken governance.
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Question 7 · Depreciation of Non-Current Assets
A tractor bought by a farm in Makurdi for ₦3,000,000 has a useful life of 5 years and no residual value. Using the sum-of-the-years'-digits method, depreciation for year 2 is
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Answer: D. ₦800,000
Sum of digits = 1+2+3+4+5 = 15. Year 1 = 5/15 × ₦3,000,000 = ₦1,000,000; year 2 = 4/15 × ₦3,000,000 = ₦800,000. ₦600,000 is straight line; ₦400,000 uses the digit 2 instead of 4 (counting from the wrong end).
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Question 8 · Control Accounts
If the sales ledger control account is kept in the general ledger as part of the double entry, the individual customer accounts become
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Answer: D. memorandum (subsidiary) records
When the control account is in the double entry, the personal accounts serve as subsidiary memoranda; including both would double-count debtors in the trial balance. They are personal, not nominal or suspense accounts.
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Question 9 · Petty Cash Book
A petty cash payment of ₦3,500 to Mrs Eze, a creditor, appears in the "ledger" column of the petty cash book. It is posted to the
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Answer: A. debit of Mrs Eze's account
Paying a creditor reduces the liability, so her personal account is debited. Crediting would increase the debt; purchases and postage are unrelated expense accounts.
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Question 10 · Single Entry Account: Incomplete Records
When converting incomplete records to double entry, the balancing figure in a total creditors account usually represents
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Answer: B. credit purchases
Opening and closing creditors, payments, discounts and returns are known, so the missing figure is credit purchases. Cash sales come from the cash summary; drawings and depreciation are unrelated to creditors.
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Question 11 · Accounting Concepts
Accounting concepts are best described as
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Answer: B. basic assumptions underlying accounts
Concepts are the fundamental assumptions underlying accounts (entity, going concern, accruals…). They are not tax laws, interest methods or bank documents.
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Question 12 · The Ledger
The account of a supplier from whom goods are bought on credit is kept in the
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Answer: D. purchases ledger
Creditors' (suppliers') personal accounts are kept in the purchases (bought) ledger. The sales ledger is for customers; the general ledger holds real and nominal accounts; the cash book records cash and bank.
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Practise free on eZine →Topics in eZine's WAEC Financial Accounting practice bank
- Accounts for Clubs and Societies (6)
- Bank Reconciliation Statement (6)
- Correction of Errors in Accounting (6)
- Formation of Company (II) (6)
- Partnership Account (6)
- Statement of Financial Position (6)
- Accounting Concepts (5)
- Accounting Standards (5)
- Adjustments in Income Statement (5)
- Assets, Liabilities and Equity (5)
- Books of Prime Entry (5)
- Business Documents (5)
- Consignment Account (5)
- Control Accounts (5)
- Depreciation of Non-Current Assets (5)
- Double Entry System of Accounting (5)
- Hire Purchase Account (5)
- Manufacturing Account (5)
- Petty Cash Book (5)
- Single Entry Account: Incomplete Records (5)
- The Cash Book (I) (5)
- The Ledger (5)
- The Trial Balance (5)
- Trading Account of a Sole Trader (5)
Published questions per topic, counted 29 October 2026. eZine does not reproduce WAEC's own Financial Accounting syllabus here; check the official syllabus with your school or at the WAEC website.