Ch 11 Worldwide Accounting Flashcards
IFRS refers to fixed assets as…
Tangible assets
IFRS VS GAAP: presentation of assets
Listed in reverse order if liquidity, starting from intangible assets
IFRS calls receivables…
Debtors
IFRS term for: inventories
Stocks and work in progress
IFRS term for: cash and cash equivalents
Bank balances and other liquid funds
IFRS term for: accounts payable
Creditors
Provisions, where are they found?
Define?
Found in both Noncurrent and current liabilities
Estimated obligations related to warranties and restructuring plans
What order does an IFRS balance sheet report current liabilities, Longterm liabilities and shareholders equity?
1 shareholders equity
2 long term liabilities
3 current liabilities
Share capital
Reflects the par value of common stock
Share premium
Shows the paid in capital in excess of par value
Retained earnings are not…
Reported separately but are included in revenue and other
Reserves
Other reserves
Related to revaluation of assets
IFRS term for: treasury stock
Own shares held
Typical reporting format of operating expenses on the income statement for US companies 6
Sales Less: COGS equals: gross profit Less: selling costs Less: administrative costs Equals: operating profit
Under IFRS material costs on the income statement are reported as? 2
Raw material
Consumables and services
Under IFRS labor costs on the income statement are reported as?
Personnel expenses
How is overhead reported on the income statement under IFRS?
Included in:
Amortization, depreciation and impairments
Personnel expenses includes…2
Wages, salaries and benefits paid to employees involved in
Manufacturing
Selling and administration expenses
On an IFRS income statement, cost of goods sold is…
2) what can therefore not be calculated?
Not reported as s separated amount
2) gross profit can’t be calculated
Foreign companies whose stock is listed on the U.S. stock exchange are required to…
Be registered and file statements with the SEC
For a columbian oil company, some of the largest adjustment entries
To reconcile between IFRS and GAAP included…5
1 nonmonetary assets 2 deferred charges 3 deferred income taxes 4 revenue recognition 5 depreciation, depletion and amortization
5 factors that influence a country’s financial reporting practices
1 legal system 2 taxation 3 financing system 4 inflation 5 political and economic ties
2 major types of legal systems used around the world
1 common law
2 codified roman law
Non English speaking countries typically use what kind of legal system?
Codified roman law (code law)
Code law tends to have…
More statute or codified law governing a wider range of human
Activity
What does a countries code law legal System have to do with accounting?
Code law countries have corporation law (AKA commercial code
Or companies act) establishes legal parameters governing Business enterprise
Accounting rules are established primarily by the government
Instead of the accounting profession
What does a country’s common law legal system have to do with accounting?
In countries with common law (US, UK), the profession or
Independent nongovernmental body establishes accounting rules
In code law countries, the accounting law is rather…
General, not providing specific detail about accounting practices
How is The FASB an extreme case for the United States in a common law country?
Provides an overload of specific details about accounting rules
In some countries what do published financial statements form the basis for?
2) In other countries, financial statements are adjusted for…
Taxation
2) tax purposes and submitted to the government separately
From reports sent to stock holders
Taxation: Germany’s conformity principle (Massgeblichkeitsprinzip), requires in most cases an expense also must be used in…
Calculating financial statement income to be deductible for tax
Purposes
In the US, conformity between the tax statement and financial statements is required…
Only for use of LIFO cost flow assumption
US companies are allowed to use accelerated depreciation for…
2) And strait line depreciation for…
tax purposes
2) financial statement purposes
Well managed German companies attempt to minimize income for tax purposes by…
Using accelerated depreciation to reduce their tax liability
US vs. Germany company income reporting
US company is likely to report higher income than German
counterpart
Major providers of financing for business enterprises 4
1 family members
2 banks
3 governments
4 shareholders
Countries in which families, banks or state dominate company financing have…
Less pressure for public accountability and information disclosure
Banks and the state often are represented on the board of
Directors and therefore are able to…
Obtain information necessary for decision making from inside
The company
Stockholder’s are more interested in a company’s…
2)banks are more interested in a company’s…
Profit
2) solvency and liquidity (emphasis on balance sheet)
Banker prefer companies to practice…
Rather conservative accounting with regard to assets and
Liabilities
Countries with chronically high rates of inflation have been forced to adopt accounting rules that require…
Inflation adjustment over historical cost amounts
Ex. Latin America
Double and triple digit inflation rates render historical cost…
Meaningless
Countries with economic ties (NAFTA)…
Influence each other’s accounting practices
Gray: 2 ways a country’s societal values influence its accounting system
1 help shape a country’s institutions: legal system, capital markets,
Financing system
2 influence accounting values shared by members of accounting
Subculture, influencing the nature of the accounting system
Gray argues, In a society with low tolerance for uncertainty exists accountants prefer…
2) high power and high secrecy society, that prefer to maintain
Inequality in society prefer…
More conservative measures of profits and assets
2) provided minimal disclosure on financial statements
Nobes 1998 model gave 2 explanatory factors for international accounting diversity
1 national culture including institutional structures
2 nature of country’s financing system
Nobes: Class A accounting system
Used by countries with strong equity outsider financing system
System is less conservative, provides more disclosure and
Doesn’t follow tax rules
Nobes: Class B accounting system
Accounting is more conservative, disclosure is not extensive,
More closely follows tax rules
In countries with weak equity outsider financing system
Nobes argued, Many countries in the developing world are culturally…
Dominated by another country (could be one they were colonized
By)
Nobles argued, Culturally dominated countries use the accounting system of…
The dominating country regardless of the nature of their equity
Financing system
Ex. African countries use British system
Nobes argued that as a financing system in a country evolves from weak equity to strong equity, the accounting system evolves to…
class A accounting system
Ex. China
Financial reporting problem for multi nationals
Diverse accounting practices make consolidation of financial
Statements difficult for these companies
Involves currency adjustments and Reconciliations to US GAAP
Ex. Coca cola operates in 40 countries, each sub must prepare
Financials in compliance with local regulations