Accounting and Finance Aptitude Test

When a bank's customer makes an ATM cash withdrawal from the customer's account, which classes of the bank's Chart of Accounts will be affected?

Where can you find information about the total interest accrued during the reporting period of one year?

The charts below show the number of cars John sold last year and the profit per car he made.

How much did John earn last year?

In the summer, Agathe wore an ill-fitting sun hat and oversized sunglasses to the beach in Greece. Both slipped off when she fell asleep in her swimsuit on the beach at 2 p.m.

What will most likely happen to Agathe?

Cats are common pets throughout the world, and their worldwide population exceeds 500 million.

Cats are the second most popular pet in the U.S. by number of pets owned, behind freshwater fish. Although cat ownership has commonly been associated with women, research has shown that men and women in the U.S. are equally likely to own a cat.

They are ranked as the third most popular pet in the U.K. by number of pets owned, after fish and dogs, with 8 million being owned.

What can be concluded from the text above?

Study the balance sheet information for Carlton Corporation in 2015 in the image below.

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What is the value of the Current Asset Turnover Ratio for Carlton Corporation in 2015?

(Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

John has a bag of apples, and two brothers, Jack and Jim.

The image below shows the number of apples that John has eaten and put in the family's compost barrel.

John then splits the remainder equally between himself and each one of his brothers. Jack and Jim both eat half the apples they have been given. Together the three brothers have 4 apples left.

How many apples did John start with?

In college, Jill taught Sam different math theorems.

After leaving college, Jill forgot more math theorems than Sam learned from her.

Based only on the above, which of the below must be true statements.

When Spring began, a bottled water startup launched its product. When Summer began, it started a 6 month marketing campaign to increase sales. Sales rose and stayed high but, when Summer ended, they fell and stayed low. When Winter began, the startup failed and went out of business.

Based only on the above, which of the below must be true statements.

In which year did the company make the largest profit per employee?

Dan put a large bet on a horse. However, a day before the race, the horse was injured.

Select which of the following statements are true:

You are having a discussion with your friend about the apps you both use.

Every app your friend uses, you also use. Spreadsheet is the app you use the most. You don't use the Calculator app at all.

With regard to what’s written above, select which of the following statements are true.

The charts above show the number of cars that John sold last year, and the profit per car. In which quarter did John make the highest average profit per car sold?

It has rained continuously for 15 days. Tomorrow, an important football match is being held in an outdoor stadium.

Select which of the following statements are true:

The company's sick leave policy says:

This company’s sick leave policy applies to all our employees who have been with our company for more than six months. Our employees can take sick leave only when they want to recover from a sudden illness, accident, or injury. They can use up to 10 days of sick leave for these purposes per calendar year.

Upon completion of each 12 month period of employment, employees will receive 3 additional days of sick leave for every completed 12 month period of working for the company. Unspent additional sick leave days cannot be transferred to the next 12 month period. For example, an employee who has worked for the company for 10 years would receive 30 additional days of sick leave, or 40 in total.

Keep in mind that employees who become sick should either use their sick days or work from home to avoid spreading illnesses.

Fill in the blanks, with numbers, for the cases below. Enter the number 0 for cases when an employee doesn't have the right to sick leave, according to the policy.

• Emily, who has worked for us for almost half a year and still hasn't used any sick leave days, has the right to use up to __ sick leave days this year.
• Faith, who just started her 3rd year of working for us and has not taken sick leave until now, had a car accident. She has the right to use up to __ days of sick leave to recover from her injuries.
• Vanessa, who started to work for us a little over a year ago, took 2 days of sick leave last year. She was Faith's passenger in the car accident. Vanessa has the right to use up to __ days of sick leave to recover from her injuries.
• Edith, who began working for us 8 months ago, has the right to use up to __ sick leave days for a volunteer adult care program at a local hospital that lasts the whole day.
• If Gabrielle, who has worked for us for 20 months, and who took a 10-day sick leave immediately after her 6-month trial period had finished, gets ill tomorrow, she will have the right to use up to __  days of sick leave.

After saving for years, John's parents bought him his first car for his birthday. He was so happy that they decided to keep buying him cars on future birthdays that came after the same interval of years.

Today they bought him yet another car—38 years after the first.

Here are the birthday cars.

How old was John when he got his first car from his parents?

An eagerly awaited new album has been leaked several hours before its official release. Listeners are now able to download the album for free.

How will this affect album sales?

Your company has just purchased a company vehicle using cash.

Which product line saw the largest absolute increase in income (dollar amount, not percentage) in the second half of the year compared to the first half of the year?

Five types of tires were tested in three different driving conditions.

Consider the following table of their test scores:

If a tire type scored 4 or less in any category, it failed the test.

What is the highest average score of the tire types that passed the test?

Study the balance sheet for Edampilz in 2017 in the image below.

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What is the value of the Debt Ratio for Edampilz in 2017?

(Round your answer to two decimal places.)

A postcard and a stamp together cost $1.50. The postcard costs one dollar more than the stamp.

How much does the stamp cost?

A brother and sister own equal parts in a company. The minority shareholders have the remaining 12,000 shares or 30% of the company.

What is the number of shares that the sister owns?

Read the statement below and fill in the blanks with the correct answers.

Liquidity ratios indicate an enterprise's ability to pay _________________________ while solvency ratios indicate an enterprise's ability to pay _________________________. If we see that the Quick Ratio is ____________________ over time and the Current Liquidity Ratio is ____________________ over time, we can conclude that the company’s ability to pay short-term debt is probably improving.

DEF Limited, a company that specializes in high-end audio components, is planning to expand into a new market by investing in a new production line. That investment consists of $100,000 received from a five-year loan and $50,000 of DEF’s own cash. DEF’s management has decided to use the straight-line depreciation method over a 10-year period, and the salvage (residual) value of the production line is zero.

What is the increase to DEF’s fixed assets when the production line is put into operation?

(Round your answer to whole dollars.)