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Home Office Questions With Answers
Home Office Questions With Answers
2. Which of the following statements regarding accounting for home office and branch
is CORRECT?
a. The required balance of the Allowance for Overvaluation account is the mark-
up in the total ending inventory of the branch.
b. The combined net income of the home office and its branches is
presented in the separate Statement of Comprehensive Income of the
Home office.
c. The income of the branch as far as the home office is concern is debited to
Investment in Branch account in the separate books of the home office.
d. The home office ships merchandise to the branch at a mark-up based on cost,
as a consequence the retained earnings of the branch in its separate books is
understated.
At the end of the year the Investment in Bacolod account of the home office is P300,500. However there
are transactions discovered to have errors.
Bacolod branch bought equipment on June 1, 2020 costing P63,800 for the home office's
use and the policy is to record the asset in Bacolod's books. During that time the home office
recorded the equipment and credited its reciprocal account of its Bacolod branch.
The policy of the company regarding the equipment's depreciation is that it has a life of 8 yrs
with no salvage value and the straight-line method should be used. No entry has been made
by the home office and branch.
The home office ships merchandise to Bacolod amounting to P96,700. Bacolod recorded the
transaction as P97,600.
Bacolod pays the home office's creditors in the amount of P32,400 and sends a debit memo
to the home office. Upon receipt of the debit memo, the home office debited its reciprocal
account in the amount of P23,400 twice.
5. What is the unadjusted balance of the home office current account in the books of Bacolod at the
end of the year?
a. 379,600
b. 252,000
c. 286,000
d. 315,800
6. What is the net adjustment of the investment in Bacolod account at the end of the year?
a. 20,052 debit
b. 20,052 credit
c. 19,387.5 debit
d. 19,387.5 credit
7. What is the net adjustment of the home office current account in the books of Bacolod branch at
the end of the year?
a. 4,887.5 debit
b. 4,887.5 credit
c. 5,552 debit
d. 5,552 credit
8. Handyman Company has a branch in San Carlos City. Shipments of merchandise
to the branch totaled P.297,000 for the year, which included a 25% mark-up on
cost.
The following data summarizing branch operations for the period ended
December 31, 2019:
Sales on account P407,000
9. Summary adjusted trial balance for the home office and branch of Emerald
Corporation at December 31, 2019 are as follows:
Home Office Branch
Debits:
Branch 200,000 -
Purchases 500,000 -
Dividends 100,000
Credits:
Additional Information:
1) The home office ships merchandise to its branch at 120% of home office
cost.
2) Inventories at December 31, 2019 are P 70,000 for the home office and P
60,000 for the branch. The branch inventory is at transfer prices.
The combined net income of the home office and the branch amounted to:
10. The Manila Branch of the Milestone Company is billed for merchandise by the
home office at 20% above cost. The branch in turn, prices merchandise for sales
purposes at 25% above billed price. On February 29, all of the branch
merchandise branch merchandise is destroyed by fire. No insurance was
maintained. Branch accounts show the following information:
Merchandise inventory, January 1 (at billed P26,400
price)
Shipments from home office (January 1 to 20,000
February 29)
Sales 15,000
The Davao City branch of Octagon Enterprise, Davao was billed for merchandise
shipments from home office at cost plus 25% 2017 and cost plus 20 % in 2018.
Other pertinent data for 2018:
11. What will bet the combined cost of sales of Davao branch and Octagon’s home
office that must be shown in the combined income statement?
A. P224,300 B. P1,558,150 C. P1,558,700 D.
P220,400
12. What will be the combined net income of Davao branch and Octagon’s home
office?
A. P224,300 B. P226,000 C. P221,330 D. P220,400
13. The following data were taken from the records of BMW Corporation of Baguio and
its Davao Branch for 2018:
Baguio Branch Davao Branch
Sales P530,000 P157,500
Inventory, January 1, 57,500 22,250
Purchases 410,000
Shipments to branch 410,000
Shipment from home 126,000
office
Inventory, December 31 71,250 29,250
Expenses 191,000 50,750
In 2018, Baguio Office billed the Davao Branch at 120% of cost which was lower
by 5% than last year’s. The combined net income of the home office and the
branch is:
A. P48,325 B. P48,575 C. P49,650 D. P56,075
The Baguio branch of CRC-ACE Inc., submitted trial balance as of December 31,
2020, after the first year of operations:
Debit Credit
Cash P10,400
Accounts receivable 63,200
Shipments from home 168,000
office
Expenses 10,800
Sales P134,400
Home office current 118,000
P252,400 P252,400
Merchandise inventory, P50,400.
Shipments to the branch are billed at 140% of cost.
14. The adjustment to the cost of goods sold of the branch account amounts to:
A. P0 B. P14,000 C. P33,600 D. other amount
15. The true net income of the branch during 2020 was:
A. P6,000 B. P33,600 C. P39,600 D. other amount
16. The overstatement in the branch inventory at December 31, 2020 was:
A. P0 B.P6,000 C. P14,400 D. other amount
TIM HORTONS Company set up a branch in a province. The entity and its branch
provided following data for the second year of branch operation:
- The home office to branch markup based on cost is 25% this year and last year.
- 20% of the beginning inventory of the branch came from outside supplier.
- 24% of the ending inventory of the branch came from the last year's shipment from the
home office while 50% of the ending inventory of the branch came from current years
shipment from the home office.
17. What is the net income reported by the branch in its separate income statement for
the current year?
A. 130,000
B. 124,000
C. 114,000
D. 95,000
18. What is the ending inventory to be reported by the entity in its combined statement
of financial position?
A. 128,000
B. 115,000
C. 130,000
D. 122,600
19. What is the overstatement in the cost of goods sold reported by the branch in its
separate income statement for the current year?
A. 54,000
B. 50,000
C. 52,000
D. 47,400
The following information came from the books and records of Filipina Corporation and
its branch. The balances are as of December 31, 2019, the third year of the
corporation's existence.
The branch purchases all of its merchandise from the home office. The inventories of
the branch at billed prices are as follows:
20. Compute the percentage of profit on billed price that the home office uses to ship
merchandise to the branch.
A. 25%
B. 20%
C. 22.73%
D. 29.41%
21. Compute the balance in the Shipments to Branch account before closing entries
are posted.
A. P220,000
B. P270,000
C. P176,000
D. P245,000
B. P75,000
C. P120,000
D. P45,000