PEREGRINE ACTUAL 2026 SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Individual and Group Dynamics - ✔✔Interaction of complex intra- and inter-personal
forces operating in a group which determine its character, development, and long-term
survival.
Field of study concerned with determination of laws underlying group behavior.
✔✔Population Sampling - ✔✔is the process of taking a subset of subjects that is
representative of the entire population. The sample must have sufficient size to warrant
statistical analysis.
✔✔TYPE I ERROR - ✔✔IS THE REJECTION OF A TRUE NULL HYPOTHESIS (ALSO
KNOWN AS A "FALSE POSITIVE" FINDING)
✔✔TYPE II ERROR - ✔✔IS FAILING TO REJECT A FALSE NULL HYPOTHESIS
(ALSO KNOWN AS A "FALSE NEGATIVE" FINDING)
✔✔ What is a general ledger? - ✔✔A general ledger account is an account or record
used to sort, store and summarize a company's transactions.
asset accounts such as Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Investments, Land, and
Equipment
liability accounts including Notes Payable, Accounts Payable, Accrued Expenses
Payable, and Customer Deposits
stockholders' equity accounts such as Common Stock, Retained Earnings, Treasury
Stock, and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
✔✔What is the difference between accounts payable and accounts receivable? -
✔✔Accounts payable is a current liability account in which a company records the
amounts it owes to suppliers or vendors for goods or services that it received on credit.
Accounts receivable is a current asset account in which a company records the
amounts it has a right to collect from customers who received goods or services on
credit.
✔✔What is the cost of goods sold? - ✔✔The cost of goods sold is the cost of the
products that a retailer, distributor, or manufacturer has sold.
✔✔What is owner's equity? - ✔✔Owner's equity is one of the three main sections of a
sole proprietorship's balance sheet and one of the components of the accounting
equation: Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity.
, ✔✔What is principles of accounting? - ✔✔Principles of accounting can also refer to the
basic or fundamental accounting principles: cost principles, matching principles, full
disclosure principles, materiality principles, going concern principles, economic entity
principles, and so on. In this context, principles of accounting refers to the broad
underlying concepts which guide accountants when preparing financial statements.
✔✔What is equity? - ✔✔Equity can indicate an ownership interest in a business, such
as stockholders' equity or owner's equity.
Equity can mean an owner's interest in a personal asset. For example, the owner of a
$200,000 house that has a mortgage loan of $75,000 is said to have $125,000 of equity
in the house.
✔✔What is meant by reconciling an account? - ✔✔Reconciling an account is likely to
mean proving or documenting that an account balance is correct.
✔✔What is included in cash and cash equivalents? - ✔✔In accounting, a company's
cash includes the following:
currency and coins
checks received from customers but not yet deposited
checking accounts
petty cash
Cash equivalents are short-term, highly liquid investments with a maturity date that was
3 months or less at the time of purchase.
money market accounts
U.S. Treasury Bills
commercial paper
✔✔What is the difference between an implicit cost and an explicit cost? - ✔✔An implicit
cost is present but it is not initially shown or reported as a separate cost.
An explicit cost is a cost that is present and it is clearly shown or reported as a separate
cost.
✔✔What is the difference between stocks and bonds? - ✔✔Stocks, or shares of capital
stock, represent an ownership interest in a corporation. Every corporation has common
stock.
Bonds are a form of long-term debt in which the issuing corporation promises to pay the
principal amount at a specified maturity date.
✔✔AN INCREASE TO WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNTS WILL INCREASE
OWNERS' EQUITY? - ✔✔Client Fees
✔✔IN TIMES OF RISING PRICES, THE INVENTORY COST METHOD THAT WILL
YIELD THE LOWEST NET INCOME IS: - ✔✔LIFO (LIFO is the acronym for last-in, first-
SURE A+
✔✔Individual and Group Dynamics - ✔✔Interaction of complex intra- and inter-personal
forces operating in a group which determine its character, development, and long-term
survival.
Field of study concerned with determination of laws underlying group behavior.
✔✔Population Sampling - ✔✔is the process of taking a subset of subjects that is
representative of the entire population. The sample must have sufficient size to warrant
statistical analysis.
✔✔TYPE I ERROR - ✔✔IS THE REJECTION OF A TRUE NULL HYPOTHESIS (ALSO
KNOWN AS A "FALSE POSITIVE" FINDING)
✔✔TYPE II ERROR - ✔✔IS FAILING TO REJECT A FALSE NULL HYPOTHESIS
(ALSO KNOWN AS A "FALSE NEGATIVE" FINDING)
✔✔ What is a general ledger? - ✔✔A general ledger account is an account or record
used to sort, store and summarize a company's transactions.
asset accounts such as Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Investments, Land, and
Equipment
liability accounts including Notes Payable, Accounts Payable, Accrued Expenses
Payable, and Customer Deposits
stockholders' equity accounts such as Common Stock, Retained Earnings, Treasury
Stock, and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
✔✔What is the difference between accounts payable and accounts receivable? -
✔✔Accounts payable is a current liability account in which a company records the
amounts it owes to suppliers or vendors for goods or services that it received on credit.
Accounts receivable is a current asset account in which a company records the
amounts it has a right to collect from customers who received goods or services on
credit.
✔✔What is the cost of goods sold? - ✔✔The cost of goods sold is the cost of the
products that a retailer, distributor, or manufacturer has sold.
✔✔What is owner's equity? - ✔✔Owner's equity is one of the three main sections of a
sole proprietorship's balance sheet and one of the components of the accounting
equation: Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity.
, ✔✔What is principles of accounting? - ✔✔Principles of accounting can also refer to the
basic or fundamental accounting principles: cost principles, matching principles, full
disclosure principles, materiality principles, going concern principles, economic entity
principles, and so on. In this context, principles of accounting refers to the broad
underlying concepts which guide accountants when preparing financial statements.
✔✔What is equity? - ✔✔Equity can indicate an ownership interest in a business, such
as stockholders' equity or owner's equity.
Equity can mean an owner's interest in a personal asset. For example, the owner of a
$200,000 house that has a mortgage loan of $75,000 is said to have $125,000 of equity
in the house.
✔✔What is meant by reconciling an account? - ✔✔Reconciling an account is likely to
mean proving or documenting that an account balance is correct.
✔✔What is included in cash and cash equivalents? - ✔✔In accounting, a company's
cash includes the following:
currency and coins
checks received from customers but not yet deposited
checking accounts
petty cash
Cash equivalents are short-term, highly liquid investments with a maturity date that was
3 months or less at the time of purchase.
money market accounts
U.S. Treasury Bills
commercial paper
✔✔What is the difference between an implicit cost and an explicit cost? - ✔✔An implicit
cost is present but it is not initially shown or reported as a separate cost.
An explicit cost is a cost that is present and it is clearly shown or reported as a separate
cost.
✔✔What is the difference between stocks and bonds? - ✔✔Stocks, or shares of capital
stock, represent an ownership interest in a corporation. Every corporation has common
stock.
Bonds are a form of long-term debt in which the issuing corporation promises to pay the
principal amount at a specified maturity date.
✔✔AN INCREASE TO WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNTS WILL INCREASE
OWNERS' EQUITY? - ✔✔Client Fees
✔✔IN TIMES OF RISING PRICES, THE INVENTORY COST METHOD THAT WILL
YIELD THE LOWEST NET INCOME IS: - ✔✔LIFO (LIFO is the acronym for last-in, first-
