CFAS Flashcards
3 process in the definition given by (AAA) American Accounting Association
Identifyng - analytical
Measuring - technical
Communicating - formal
Accounting is a service activity. The accounting function is to provide quantitative information, primarily financial in nature, about economic entities, that is intended to be useful in making economic decision.
Accounting Standards Council
CAT
Accounting is the art of ______________________ in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are in part at least of a financial character and _____ the results thereof.
recording, classifying and summarizing, interpreting
The 3 important points made in the definition of accounting:
It is a quantitative information
Financial in nature
Useful in decision making
This accounting process is the recognition or nonrecognition of business activities as “accountable” events.
Identifying
Are all business activities accountable?
No
An event is ______________ when it has an effect on assets, liabilities and equity.
accountable or quantifiable
Only ___________ are emphasized and recognized in accounting.
economic activities
______________ or exchange transactions are those economic events involving one entity and another entity.
External transactions
any sudden and unanticipated loss from fire, flood, earthquake and other event ordinarily termed as an act of God
Casualty
examples of internal transactions.
Production and Casualty
the accounting process of assigning of peso amounts to the accountable economic transactions and
Measuring
The measurement bases are
historical costa and current value
the original acquisition cost and the most common measure of financial transactions.
Historical Cost
the process of preparing and distributing accounting reports to potential users of accounting information
Communicating
the sorting or grouping of similar and interrelated economic transactions into their respective classes.
Classifying
the process of systematically maintaining a record of all economic business transactions after they have been identified and measured.
Recording
the preparation of financial statements which include the statement of financial position, income statement, statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity and statement of cash flows.
Summarizing
Implicit in the communication process
Recording, classifying, and summarizing
is the body authorized by law to promulgate rules and regulations affecting the practice of the accountancy profession in the Philippines.
Board of Accountancy
This law is known as the Philippine Accountancy Act of 2004.
Republic Act No. 9298
Certified Public Accountants generally practice their profession in three main areas,
Public Accounting
Private Accounting
Government Accounting
Public accountants usually offer three kinds of services, namely
Auditing, Taxation and management advisory services
the examination of financial statements by independent certified public accountant for the purpose of expressing an opinion as to the fairness with which the financial statements are prepared.
Auditing
includes the preparation of annual income tax returns and determination of tax consequences of certain proposed business endeavors.
Taxation or Taxation Services
have become increasingly important in recent years although audit and tax services are undoubtedly the mainstay of public accountants.
Management advisory services
The highest accounting officer in an entity is known as the
CFO or Controller
encompasses the process of analyzing, classifying, summarizing and communicating all transactions involving the receipt and disposition of government funds and property and interpreting the results thereof.
Government Accounting
The focus of government accounting is the
custody and administration of public funds.
CPD meaning
Continuing Professional Development
required for thebrenewal of CPA license and accreditation of CPA to practice the accountancy profession.
CPD
How many CPD are required for accreditation of a CPA to practice the accountancy profession?
120 CPD credited units
How many CPD Units are needed for renewal of license
15 CPD credited units
A CPA shall be permanently exempted from CPDvrequirements upon reaching the age of __ years.
65
refers to the profession of accounting practice.
Accountancy
used in reference only to a particular field of accountancy such as public accounting, private accounting and government accounting.
Accounting
is procedural and largely concerned with development and maintenance of accounting records.
Bookkeeping
primarily concerned with the recording of business transactions and the eventual preparation of financial statements.
Financial Accounting
focuses on general purpose reports
known as financial statements intended for internal and external users.
Financial Accounting
is the accumulation and preparation of financial reports for internal users only.
Managerial Accounting
represent the rules, procedures, practice and standards followed in the preparation and presentation of financial statements.
Generally accepted accounting principles
Replacement of Accounting Standards Council
Financial Reporting Standards Council or FRSC
The main function is to establish and improve accounting standards that will be generally accepted in the Philippines.
FRSC
The approved statements of the FRSC are known as
Philippine Accounting Standards or PAS and Philippine Financial Reporting Standards or PFRS.
The Financial Reporting Standards Council issues standards in a series of pronouncements called
Philippine Financial Reporting Standards or PFRS.
CPA’s are licensed by
PICPA
Accounting standard-setting has been characterized as
A political process
What is the standard-setting body in the Philippines at the present time?
Financial Reporting Standards Council
Accountants employed in entities in various capacity as accounting staff, chief accountant or controller are said to be engaged in
Private Accounting
The primary responsibility for properly applying GAAP lies with
Internal Auditor
The Conceptual Framework provides the foundation for Standards that: 3
Contribute to transparency
Contribute to economic efficiency
Strengthen accountability
In the absence of a standard or an interpretation that specifically applies to a transaction, management shall consider the applicability of the
Conceptual Framework
include the existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors.
Primary users
include the employees, customers, governments and their agencies, and the public.
Other users
Users of Financial information
Primary users
Other users
financial information are the parties to whom general purpose financial reports are primarily directed
Primary users
users of financial information other than the existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors
other users
information about the entity’s economic resources and the claims against the reporting entity.
Financial position
the assets and the claims are the liabilities and equity of the entity
Economic resources
is the availability of cash in the near future to cover currently maturing obligations.
Liquidity
is the availability of cash over a long term to meet financial commitments when they fall due.
Solvency
means that income is recognized when earned regardless of when received and expense is recognized when incurred regardless of when paid.
Accrual Accounting
The underlying theme of the Conceptual Framework is
Decision Usefulness
These users require information on risk and return provided by their investment.
Investors
These users are interested in information about the continuance of an entity, especially when they have a long-term involvement with or are dependent on the entity.
Customers
These users are interested in information about the profitability and stability of the entity in order to assess the ability of entity to provide remuneration, retirement benefits and employment opportunities.
Employees
These users are interested in information that enables them to assess whether their loans,the related interest thereon, and other amounts owing to them will be paid when due.
Lenders or Creditors
These users are interested in information in order to regulate the activities of an entity, determine taxation policies and provide a basis for national statistics.
Government and its agencies
These users need information on trends and recent developments where an entity makes a substantial contribution to the local economy providing employment and using local suppliers.
The public
The overall objective of financial reporting is to provide information
that is useful in decision making
The primary objective of financial reporting is to provide useful information to
Capital Providers
are the qualities or attributes that make financial accounting information useful to the users.
Qualitative Characteristics
The fundamental qualitative characteristics are
Relevance and Faithful representation
relate to the content or substance of financial information.
The fundamental qualitative characteristics
the capacity of the information to influence a decision.
Relevance
Financial information has _______ if it can be used as an input to processes employed by users to predict future outcome.
Predictive Value
financial information has predictive value when it can help users increase the likelihood of correctly or accurately predicting or
forecasting outcome of events.
Financial information is capable of making a difference in a decision if it has
Predictive Value and Confirmatory Value
means that the information provides feedback on previous evaluations
Confirmatory Value
is a practical rule in accounting which dictates that strict adherence to GAAP is not required when the items are not significant enough to affect the evaluation, decision and fairness of the financial statements.
Materiality
The materiality concept is also known as the
doctrine of convenience
The relevance of information is affected by its
nature and materiality
Materiality of an item depends on ______ rather than absolute size.
Relative size
an item is ______ if knowledge of it could reasonably affect or influence the economic decision of the primary users of the financial statements.
material
means the presentation of financial information not readily understood or not clearly expressed.
Obscuring Information
may be characterized by deliberate vagueness, ambiguity and abstruseness.
Obscuring Information
3 Ingredients of faithful representation
a Completeness
b. Neutrality
c. Free from error
means that financial reports represent economic phenomena or transactions in words and numbers.
Faithful Representation
means that the actual effects of the transactions shall be properly accounted for and reported in the financial statements.
Faithful Representation
requires that relevant information should be presented in a way that facilitates understanding and avoids erroneous implication.
Completeness
Actually, to be complete, the financial statements shall be accompanied by
notes to financial statements
depiction is without bias in the preparation or presentation of financial information.
Neutral
means that all significant and relevant information leading to the preparation of financial statements shall be clearly reported.
Adequate disclosure
Neutrality is synonymous with the all-encompassing
Principle of Fairness
is the exercise of care and caution when dealing with the uncertainties in the measurement process such that assets or income are not overstated and liabilities or expenses are not understated.
Prudence
Neutrality is supported by the exercise of
prudence
synonymous with prudence.
Prudence
means “in case of doubt, record any loss and do not record any gain.”
Conservatism
arises when monetary amounts in financial reports cannot be observed directly and must instead be estimated.
Measurement Uncertainty
can affect faithful representation if the level of uncertainty in providing an estimate is high.
Measurement Uncertainty
means there are no errors or omissions in the description of the phenomenon or transaction.
Free from error
If information is to represent faithfully the transactions and other events it purports to represent, it is necessary that the transactions and events are accounted in accordance with their substance and not merely their legal form.
Substance over form
The enhancing qualitative characteristics are: 4
comparability, understandability, verifiability and timeliness.
means the ability to bring together for the purpose of noting points of likeness and difference.
Comparability
may be made within an entity or between and across entities.
Comparability
Comparability within an entity is also known as
horizontal comparability or intracomparability.
Comparability across entities is also known as
intercomparability or dimensional comparability.
is the uniform application of accounting method from period to period within an entity.
Consistency
is the uniform application of accounting method between and across entities in the same industry.
Comparability
requires that financial information must be comprehensible or intelligible if it is to be most useful.
Understandability
means verifying an amount or other representation through direct observation, for example, by counting cash.
Direct Verification
means checking the inputs to a model, formula or other technique and recalculating the inputs using the same methodology.
Indirect Verification
means that different knowledgeable and independent observers could reach consensus, although not necessarily complete agreement, that a particular depiction is a faithful representation.
Verifiability
Verifiability implies
Consensus
means that financial information must be available or communicated early enough when a decision is to be made.
Timeliness
enhances the truism that without knowledge of the past, the basis for prediction will usually be lacking and without interest in the future, knowledge of the past is sterile.
Timeliness
is a pervasive constraint on the information that can be provided by financial reporting.
Cost
The ingredients of relevant financial information are
Predictive Value and Confirmatory Value