Saturday, 23 August 2014

BASIC ACCOUNTING & FINANCE INTERVIEW SHORT QUESTIONS (141-150)



141. Techniques of costing:  (a) marginal costing (b) direct costing (c)absorption costing (d) uniform costing.

142. Standard costing: standard costing is a system under which the cost of the product is determined in advance on certain predetermined standards.

143. Marginal costing: it is a technique of costing in which allocation of expenditure to production is restricted to those expenses which arise as a result of production, i.e., materials, labour, direct expenses and variable overheads.

144. Derivative: derivative is product whose value is derived from the value of  one or more basic variables of underlying asset.

145. Forwards: a forward contract is customized contracts between two entities were settlement takes place on a specific date in the future at today’s pre agreed price.

146. Futures: a future contract is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a certain time in the future at a certain price.  Future contracts are standardized exchange traded contracts.

147. Options: an option gives the holder of the option the right to do some thing. The option holder option may exercise or not.

148. Call option: a call option gives the holder the right but not the obligation to buy an asset by a certain date for a certain price.

149. Put option: a put option gives the holder the right but not obligation to sell an asset by a certain date for a certain price.

150. Option price: option price is the price which the option buyer pays to the option seller. It is also referred to as the option premium.


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