CFAS Flashcards
Process of analyzing events and transactions to determine whether or not they will be recognized.
Identifying
including the effects of an accountable event in the statement of financial position through journal entry
Recognition
Involve an entity and another external party
External Event
Giving and receiving of economic resources.
Exchange or Reciprocal transfer
one way transaction
Non-reciprocal transfer
changes in economic resources and does not involve transfers
External event other than transfer
Do not involve an external party
Internal event
Resources are transformed into finished goods
Production
Unanticipated loss from disasters
Casualty
Assigning numbers to the economic transactions and events
measuring
commonly used to measure economic transactions
historical cost
FS is a mixture of?
fact and opinion
affected by estimates
valued by opinion
unaffected by estimates
valued by facts
Transforming economic data into useful accounting information, such as FS
Communicating
Interpreting the significance of the processed information
Communicating
Writing the identified and measured accountable events in the journal
Recording
Grouping of similar and interrelated items into their respective classes through posting in the ledger
Classifying
Putting together or expressing in condensed form the recorded and classified transactions and events
Summarizing
Preparation of FS and other accounting reports
Summarizing
Computation of FS ratios
Interpreting