1 - Statement of Financial Position & Notes to FS Flashcards
These are formal reports of the financial activities and position of an enterprise, organization, person, or other entity?
Financial statements
In what form is relevant financial information presented that presents a company’s financial health?
Structured form
What do shareholders use to evaluate the risk and return of their investment in the company and make investment decisions based on their analysis?
Financial statements
Who also uses the financial statements to assess the viability of investing in a company?
Prospective investors
Who needs financial statements in making informed decisions on providing credit to entities?
Creditors and suppliers
Who also uses them as tools to communicate the past performance of and future expectations from the company?
management
What is the basis of the presentation of financial statements in accordance with International Accounting Standards (IAS) 1?
(a) Components of financial statements(including SOFP as the beg. of the prior period that is required when an entity restates its comparative prior period fs)
(b) General features for the presentation of fs &
(c) Identification of fs
It is also called the statement of financial condition or the balance sheet?
Statement of financial position
What do you call the summary of an entity’s economic resources (assets), economic obligations (liabilities), and equity and their relationships to each other at a moment in time, which is the end of the reporting period?
SOFP
What is the detailed expression of the basic accounting equation?
Asset = liabilities + equity
The Statement of financial positions tells us about the firms?
(1) Economic resources,
(2) financial structure,
(3) liquidity,
(4) solvency, and
(5) it’s capacity(to adapt to changes in the environment in which it operates)
What consists of the financial position of an enterprise?
Assets, liabilities, and equity
They define an asset as a present economic resource controlled by an entity as a result of past events?
The IASB’s and FRSC’s Conceptual Framework
What do you call the resources that are controlled by the enterprise as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the enterprise?
assets
What do you call a right that has the potential to produce economic benefits?
Economic resource
What rights are embodied in an asset that may correspond to an obligation of another party?
(a) rights to receive cash, goods or services
(b) right to exchange economic resources
What are the rights that do not correspond to an obligation of another party?
(a) right to use PPE, (b) right to sell inventories (c) rights to use intellectual property
It derives its value from a present potential to produce future economic benefits?
asset
In what following ways may assets flow to the entity?
(a) receiving cash or economic resource
(b) exchanging resource
(c) using the resource to produce good/service or enhance another asset
(d) allow others to use resource
(e) selling resources
(f) extinguishing liabilities
(g) distribute the resources to owners
What is a present obligation of an entity to transfer an economic resource as a result of past events?
Liabilities
What do you call the present obligations of the enterprise arising from past events, the settlement of which is expected to result in an outflow from the enterprise of resources embodying economic benefits?
liabilities
What are liabilities’ essential characteristics?
(a) the obligation of an entity
(b) obligation to transfer an economic resource
(c) present obligation arises from a past event
What do you call if the entity must not have an ability to avoid the obligation, which is a duty or a responsibility?
Obligation of an entity
What do you call that may be settled in the future by paying cash, delivering goods, providing services, exchanging economic resources on unfavorable terms(onerous), creating another obligation in replacement of the old, or issuing a financial instrument equivalent to ownership interest?
An obligation is to transfer an economic resource
In a past transaction, the entity has obtained economic benefits or taken action that obliges it to transfer an economic resource?
The present obligation arises from a past event
What is a term that broadly encompasses the capital of any form of business organization?
equity
What do you call the residual interest in the assets of the entity after deducting all of its liabilities?
Net assets
In a corporation, net assets are referred to as?
Stockholders’ equity or shareholders’ equity
What are the components of the shareholders’ equity that are presented in the statement of financial position?
Share capital, share premium (or additional paid-in capital), accumulated profits (or retained earnings), or cumulative OCI.
What should an entity disclose, either on the face of the statement of financial position or statement of changes in equity or in notes?
(a) each class of share capital
(b) description of nature and purpose of each reserve within equity
It is the actual intentions of the parties to a transaction?
Substance
Is the legal aspect of the legal document evidencing the transaction?
form
NORMALLY, the legal form of the transaction agrees with the ___?
Economic substance
What are others following that shall be considered in deciding whether additional line items shall be presented?
(a) nature & liquidity of assets
(b) functions of assets within the entity
(c) amounts, nature, and timing of liabilities