V S VADIVEL FCA: QUIZ CORNER

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In accounting parlance, it’s the gradual charging of an expenditure to revenue

AMORTISATION

The predecessor to CAs in India

GDA

India’s apex bank for rural development and agriculture

NABARD

Support money paid by one ex-spouse to the other as ordered by court

ALIMONY

A thing given or received without payment

GIFT

Simon Stevin of Belgium first devised this statement of affairs in the early 16th century

BALANCE SHEET

It’s the taking over a company in financial difficulties and selling each of its assets separately without regard to the company’s future

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