Commerce Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Commerce is a structured system for exchanging goods between buyers and sellers. It involves studying the processes and activities related to buying and selling goods and services, particularly on a large scale.

• Question 1321:

  The basic characteristics of co-operative society include all except one

  Options:
  A) It is managed democratically
  B) It follows the principle of one man
  C) Amateur Management
  D) Extra capital is raised through loan
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1322: The net profit is the excess of gross profit and sources of income over all the expenses . This implies that net profit is Options:
  A) the difference between gross profit and trade expenses
  B) the different between gross profit and net sales
  C) sales less cost of sales including sales returns
  D) opening stock add purchases less closing stock
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1323: The difference between personal selling and sales promotion is that while sales promotion includes free gifts and samples, personal selling involves? Options:
  A) distributing instructional posters
  B) face-to-face communication with customers
  C) premium programming for customers
  D) publishing promotional booklets
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1324: Which of the following is a quality of money Options:
  A) Availability
  B) Scarcity
  C) Indivisibility
  D) Convertibility
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1325: One of the determinants of choice of occupation is ______ Options:
  A) level of exposure
  B) resources control
  C) government policies
  D) peer group
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1326: The insurance principle that allows an insurance an insurance company to take over the rights of the insured once he has been compensated is Options:
  A) indemnity
  B) proximate cause
  C) utmost good faith
  D) subrogation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1327: The management function that makes the difference in intensity of behavior is? Options:
  A) coordinating
  B) controlling
  C) motivation
  D) planning
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1328: The activity which entails buying of goods in bulk and selling in small quantities to retailers is? Options:
  A) assembling
  B) wholesaling
  C) retailing
  D) merchandising
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1329: A financial institution which uses its capital strength to acquire controlling interests in other firms can be regarded as a? Options:
  A) subsidiary company
  B) holding company
  C) trusth
  D) cartel
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1330: A bus driver operating between Lagos and Jos pledged the owner's credit in Benin in order to have the engine repaired and the bill sent to the owner.This is a case of Options:
  A) del credere agency
  B) agency by necessity
  C) agency by rafication
  D) agency by estoppel
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  The correct answer is B .