4 | Income Statement, Comprehensive Income, & Statement of Cashflows Flashcards
The Income Statement
What is Comprehensive Income?
An expanded version of income that includes four types of gains and losses that traditionally have not been included in income statements.
The Income Statement
The Income Statement is also known as…
…Statement of Operations or Statement of Earnings.
The Income Statement
What does the Income Statement report?
The profit-generating activities that occurred during a particular reporting period.
The Income Statement
Gains/losses excluded from the determination of net income and the income statement but are included in the broader concept of comprehensive income are called?
Other Comprehensive Income (OCI)
The Income Statement
What are the two ways Other Comprehensive Income can be reported?
1) Single, continuous Statement of Comprehensive Income
2) Two separate but consecutive Statements - an Income Statement and a Statement of Comprehensive income
The Statement of Cash Flows
The purpose of the Statement of Cash Flows is to provide information about…
the cash receipts and cash disbursements of an neterprise that occurred during a period.
The Statement of Cash Flows
The Statement of Cash Flows provides valuable information about the
…operating, investing, and financing activities that occurred during a period.
The Income Statement
Income from continuing operations includes …
…the revenues, expenses, gains and losses that will probably continue in future periods.
The Income Statement & Statement of Cash Flows
Unlike the balance sheet, which is a position statement, the income statement and the statement of cash flows are…
…change statements.
The Income Statement
What are Revenues?
Inflows of resources resulting from providing goods/services to customers.
The Income Statement
What are Expenses?
Outflows of resources incurred while generating revenue. The costs of providing goods/services.
The Income Statement
Which accounting principle is key to measuring expenses?
The matching principle.
The Income Statement
What are Gains and Losses?
Increases or decreases in equity from peripheral or incidental transactions of an entity.
The Income Statement
How is Income Tax Expense shown on the Income Statement?
As a separate expense.
The Income Statement
Income Tax Expense is also known as?
Provision for Income Taxes.
The Income Statement
When tax rules and GAAP differ regarding the timing of revenue or expense recognition, the actual payment of taxes…
…may occur in a period different from when income tax expense is reported in the Income Statement.
The Income Statement
Taxable income comprises of …
1) Revenues
2) Expenses
3) Gains
4) Losses
The Income Statement
Operating Income includes revenues and expenses…
…related to the primary revenue-generating activities of the company.
The Income Statement
Nonoperating income relates to…
…peripheral or incidental activities of the company.
The Income Statement
Give 4 examples of Nonoperating income.
1) Interest Revenue
2) Dividend Revenue
3) Gains/Losses from selling investments
4) Interest expense in non-operating income
The Income Statement
Is there a specfic format that dictates how income from continuing operations must be displayed?
No
The Income Statement
What are the two extreme format approaches generally used when preparing The Income Statement?
1) Single-step
2) Multiple-step
The Income Statement
How is information formated/organized when preparing the Income Statement using the Single-Step method?
Groups all revenues and gains together and groups all expenses and losses together.
The Income Statement
How is information formated/organized when preparing the Income Statement using the Multiple-Step format?
Information is reported in a series of intermediate subtotals such as gross profit, operating income, and income before taxes that separates operating from nonoperating items, and classifies items by function.
The Income Statement
What is the advantage of the single-step format?
Simplicity because reveneus and expenses are not classified or prioritized.
The Income Statement
What is the advantage of the multiple-step format?
It provides information that might be useful in analyzing trends.
The Income Statement format | GAAP vs IFRS
Information to be reported.
IFRS require certain minimum information to be reported on the face of the Income Statement.
GAAP has no minimum requirements.
The Income Statement format | GAAP vs IFRS
Classification of expense items.
IFRS: Allows expenses to be classified either by function (e.g., COGS, general & administrative expenses, etc.) or by natural description (e.g. salaries, rent, etc.)
GAAP: SEC regulations require that expenses be classified by function.
The Income Statement format | GAAP vs IFRS
The ‘bottom line’ of the statement is referred to as?
IFRS: Profit or Loss
GAAP: Net Income or Net Loss
The Income Statement format | GAAP vs IFRS
Reporting “extraordinary items”
IFRS: Prohibits reporting ‘extraordinary items’
GAAP: Reported separately.
The Income Statement
Earnings quality refers to the…
…abilitiy of reported earnings (income) to predict a company’s future earnings.
The Income Statement
To enhance predictive value, analysts try to separate a company’s…
…transitory eaernings from its permanent earnings.
The Income Statement
Transitory earnings effects result from transactions or events that are…
…not likely to occur again in the foreseeable future or that are likely to have a different impact on earnings in the future.
The Income Statement
Manipulating Income and Income Smoothing is also known as…
…Earnings Management
The Income Statement
What is Earnings Management
The practice of ‘banking’ earnings by understating them in particularly good years and using the ‘banked’ profit to polish results in bad years.
The Income Statement
Give two methods used in Earnings Management.
1) Income Shifting
2) Income Statement Classification
The Income Statement | Earnings Management
What is “Income Shifting”?
Accelerating or delaying recogniiton of revenues or expenses.
The Income Statement | Earnings Management
What is “Channel Stuffing”
Income Shifting. Accelerate revenue recognition by persuading distributors to purchase more of your product than necessary near the end of a reporting period.
The Income Statement
What does the most common income statement classification manipulation involve?
Inclusion of recurring operating expenses in “special charge”categories such as restructuring costs.
The Income Statement
The practice of Income Statement classification manipulation is sometimes referred to as…
“big bath” accounting, referencing the “cleanign up” of the company balance sheet.
The Income Statement
Restructuring costs include costs…
associated with shutdown or relocation of facilities or downsizing of operations.
The Income Statement
Restructuring costs are incurred in connection with…
…a program that is planned and controlled by management, and materially changes either the scope of a busienss undertaken by an entity, or the manner which that business is conducted.
The Income Statement
What kinds of costs are included under Restructuring Costs?
Costs associated with shutdown or relocation of facilities or downsizing of operations.
The Income Statement
Give 2 examples of Restructuring Costs.
1) Severance Pay
2) Relocation Costs
The Income Statement
GAAP requires that restructuring costs are recognized…
…only in the period the exit or disposal cost obligation actually is incurred.
The Income Statement
What is the value objective established by GAAP for initial measurement of restructuring cost liabilities?
Fair Value