Royalty Accounts MCQs [Multiple Choice Questions and Answers 2025 Free PDF]

Royalty Accounts MCQs Multiple Choice Questions and Answers
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Introduction to Royalty Accounts

Royalty is an amount payable for utilizing the benefit of certain rights vested with some other person. For example, a landlord possesses right over the mine in his land, the author of book possesses right over his book. When the rights are leased the owner receives a consideration for the same which is called royalty.

Royalty is a periodical sum based on the output payable by the lessee to the lessor for having utilized the rights of the lessor. The person who makes the payment to the owner of asset is known as lessee and the owner of the asset is known as lessor. Royalty is a business expense and closed and transferred to profit and loss account.

Royalty Accounts MCQs
Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Choose the correct answer:

1. Royalty accounts is:

(a) Real Account

(b) Nominal Account

(c) Personal Account

(d) None of the above

Ans: (b) Nominal Account

2. Short workings is

(a) Excess of minimum rent over the actual royalties

(b) Excess of actual royalties over the minimum rent

(c) Excess of actual output over the standard output

(d) Excess of standard output over the actual output

Ans: (a) Excess of minimum rent over the actual royalties

3. Surplus is

(a) Excess of minimum rent over the actual royalties

(b) Excess of actual royalties over the minimum rent

(c) Excess of actual output over the standard output

(d) Excess of standard output over the actual output

Ans: (b) Excess of actual royalties over the minimum rent

4. When the royalties are less than the minimum rent?

(a) Royalties account is debited with the actual amount of royalties earned.

(b) Royalties account is debited with the minimum rent.

(c) Royalties account is debited with the amount paid to the landlord.

(d) Royalties account is debited with the excess of minimum rent over the actual rent.

Ans: (a) Royalties account is debited with the actual amount of royalties earned.

5. Which of the following statements is false?

(a) Recoupable short workings is a current asset

(b) Lapsed short workings is a real account

(c) Short workings is the part of minimum rent not represented by the use of rights

(d) Short workings is the amount by which the minimum rent exceeds the actual royalty

Ans: (b) Lapsed short workings is a real account

6. Which of the following statements is false?

(a) If a lessee leases a part of the leased property to another person, it is called sublease.

(b) In case of partial sub‐lease, lessor will be paid on the basis of the output of the primary lease.

(c) Royalty receivable account is opened in the books of the lessor.

(d) Minimum rent is payable by the lessee even if the royalty amount is less than the minimum rent.

Ans: (c) Royalty receivable account is opened in the books of the lessor.

7. In the books of lessee, short workings recovered amount is debited to

(a) Profit & loss account

(b) Minimum rent account

(c) Short workings recoverable account

(d) Royalty account

(e) Landlord's account.

Ans: (a) Profit & loss account

8. If royalty is less than minimum rent, the balance of royalty account at the end of the year has to be transferred to

(a) Capital reserve account

(b) Reserve capital account

(c) Profit & loss account

(d) Minimum Rent Account

Ans: (c) Profit & loss account

9. In case of recoupment of Shortworkings, the lessee:

(a) Debits Shortworkings Account

(b) Credits Profit and loss Account

(c) Credits Shortworkings Account

(d) Credits Landlord’s Account

Ans: (c) Credits Shortworkings Account

10. If the Shortworkings amount is not recouped (irrecoverable Shortworkings) due to expiry of the term of recoupment, it should be debited to

(a) Minimum rent account

(b) Landlord account

(c) Royalty account

(d) Profit & loss account

Ans: (d) Profit & loss account

11. When royalty is paid, it is debited in the books of lessee to:

(a) Royalty A/c

(b) P&L A/c

(c) Landlord A/c

(d) None of the above

Ans: (c) Landlord A/c

12. Royalties are connected with the following type of business

(a) Manufacturing industry

(b) Mining industry

(c) Construction business

(d) None of the above.

Ans: (b) Mining industry

13. Short workings can be recouped out of

(a) Minimum rent

(b) Excess of actual Royalty over minimum rent i.e. Surplus

(c) Excess of minimum rent over actual Royalty

(d) Profit and Loss Account

Ans: (b) Excess of actual Royalty over minimum rent i.e. Surplus

14. Royalty is the agreement between the following persons

(a) Seller and buyer

(b) Banker & customer

(c) Trustee and Beneficiaries

(d) Landlord (Lessor) and tenant (Lessee).

Ans: (d) Landlord (Lessor) and tenant (Lessee).

15. Dead rent is also called

(a) Outstanding rent

(b) Minimum rent

(c) Prepaid rent

Ans: (b) Minimum rent

16. The objective of fixing dead rent is:

(a) Landlord should not get more than a certain amount per year

(b) Lessee should not pay more than the amount of dead rent

(c) Landlord must receive a minimum amount in case of low output or sales.

(d) None of the above

Ans: (c) Landlord must receive a minimum amount in case of low output or sales.

17. The lessee's right to recoup Shortworkings is related to

(a) Fixed Period

(b) Subsequent two years

(c) Terms and agreement

Ans: (c) Terms and agreement

18. In case of Sub‐Lease Royalty earned by the lessor is credited to

(a) Sub‐lessee account

(b) Profit and loss account

(c) Royalty receivable account.

Ans: (c) Royalty receivable account.

19. Ground Rent or Surface rent means

(a) Minimum Royalty payable

(b) Maximum Royalty payable

(c) Fixed rent payable in addition to minimum rent

(d) Rent recovered at the end of lease term

Ans: (c) Fixed rent payable in addition to minimum rent

Royalty Accounts MCQs
Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

State whether the following statements are True or False:

1. Royalty is a nominal account.                                 True

2. Royalty is a revenue expenditure to lessor.                     False

3. Royalty is calculated either on the basis of production or on sales.                        True

4. Royalty paid on sales is debited to P/L Account and Royalty paid on production is debited to Manufacturing account.

5. Shortworkings is the excess of minimum rent over royalty.                     True

6. Surplus is the excess of royalty over minimum rent.                                    True

7. Shortworkings recoverable in future are shown in the balance sheet on the assets side so long as they are recoverable.                True

8. Shortworkings not recouped is debited to P/L Account.                            True

9. When Shortworkings is recovered debit is given to either royalties account or landlord account.            True

10. When there is no provision for recoupment of Shortworkings, then Shortworkings of each of the years is to be treated as irrecoverable Shortworkings and hence transferred to profit and loss account.                              True

11. Recoupment of Shortworkings can be restricted or unrestricted.                        True

12. Lump sum payment for purchase of patent, mine or book is known as Nazrana, Lease premium or Goodwill.               True

13. Lump sum payment for purchase of patent, mine or book is not royalty, it is an asset which is shown in the balance sheet.                   True

14. Ground rent or surface rent in the rent payable by the lessee in addition to minimum rent.                  True

15. When the Shortworkings become irrecoverable, the same are debited to the Trading Account.           False

16. Royalty account is closed by transferring it to the landlord’s account.  False

17. Unrecouped royalty suspense is to be transferred to Lessee's A/c in the books of lessor.

18. Minimum rent is also termed as dead rent.                   True

19. When the lessor receives payment, he credits royalty A/c.       False, Lessee’s Account

20. The excess of minimum rent over the actual royalties is known as rock rent.  False, Redeemable dead rent

21. When royalty is paid, it is debited in the books of Lessee to royalty A/c.    False, Lessee Account

22. When Shortworkings are recouped, the account to be debited in the books of lessee is landlord A/c.               True

23. The balance of royalty receivable account is transferred to royalties’ suspense A/c.    False. Profit and Loss Account

24. When the royalty agreement does not contain a clause for minimum rent, the question of short workings and surplus and its recoupment does not arise.       True

25. Production = Sales + Closing Stock – Opening Stock.                 True

Royalty Accounts MCQs
Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Fill in the Blanks

1. Royalty A/c is in the nature of Nominal A/c

2. Royalty earned by the lessee is credited to Profit and Loss Account A/c

3. At the time of royalty payment, the lessee debits Lessor’s A/c

4. Short workings A/c shows debit balance in the books of Lessee.

5. Shortworkings is the excess of minimum rent over royalty’s payable for the year.

6. Royalties is calculated either on the basis of production or sales.

7. Royalty suspense A/c shows the Shortworkings which exists between tenant and lessor.

8. Irrecoverable Shortworkings are transferred to Profit and loss account.

9. Shortworkings can be recouped only out of Surplus.

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