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2. Depletion expense
a. Is usually part of cost of goods sold.
b. Includes tangible equipment in the depletable amount.
c. Excludes intangible development cost from the depletable amount.
d. Excludes restoration cost from the depletable amount.
4. Which accurately describes the GAAP regarding the acounting for the costs of drilling dry
holes in the oil and gas industry?
a. Successful effort method
b. Full cost method
c. Both successful effort and full cost
d. Neither successful effort nor full cost method
ANSWER 41-7
1. d
2. a
3. a
4. c
5. c
QUESTION 41-8 Multiple choice (IFRS)
1. Exploration and evaluation expenditures are incurred
a. When searching for an area that may warrant detailed exploration even though the
entity has not yet obtained the legal rights to explore a specific area.
b. When the legal rights to explore a specific area have been obtained but the technical
feasibility and commercial viability of extracting a mineral resource are not yet demonstrable.
c. When a specific area is being developed and preparation, for commercial extraction are
being made.
d. In extracting mineral resource and processing the resource to make it marketable or
transportable.
3. Which of the following expenditures would never qualify a8 an exploration and evaluation
asset?
a. Expenditure for acquisition of rights to explore
b. Expenditure for exploratory drilling
c. Expenditures related to the development of mineral resource
d. Expenditures for activities in relation to evaluating * technical feasibility and
commercial viability of extracting a mineral resource
4. An entity is required to consider which of the following developing accounting policy for
exploration and evaluation activities?
a. The requirements and guidance in Standards and Interpretations dealing with similar
and related issue
b. The definitions, recognition criteria and measurement concepts for assets, liabilities,
income, and expenses
c. Recent pronouncements of standard-setting bodies
d. Whether the accounting policy results in information that is relevant and reliable
5. Which of the following is not a disclosure required in relation to exploration and evaluation
expenditures?
a. Information about commercial reserve quantity
b. Accounting policy for exploration and evaluation expenditures
c. The amounts of operating and investing cash flows arising from exploration and
evaluation of mineral resources
d. Information recognized in the financial statements arising from the exploration and
evaluation of mineral resources
ANSWER 40-12
1. b
2. c
3. c
4. d
5. a