Chapter 1 to Chapter 4 Flashcards
What is accounting according to AICPA?
Accounting is the art of recording, classifying, summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions, and events which are in part of or at least a financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.
What are the 3 components of accounting?
Identifying (Analytical component)
Measuring (Technical component)
Communicating (Formal component)
When can a business activity be considered as accountable or worth recognizing?
When it is for a sum of money or if it has an effect in assets, liabilities, and equity.
What is the very purpose/main objective of accounting?
To provide quantitative information that will be useful for making economic decisions.
These are economic activities of an entity.
Transactions
Differentiate external transactions from internal transactions.
External transactions are business activities involving itself and another entity, while internal transactions involve only one entity.
This is the process by which resources are transformed into products.
Production
This is any sudden and anticipated loss from fire, flood, earthquake, and other event ordinarily termed as an act of God.
Casualty
This is the accounting process that recognizes accountable events from non-accountable events.
Identifying
This is the accounting process of assigning of peso amounts to the accountable economic transactions and events.
Measuring
What are the measurement bases of monetary amounts?
Historical cost
current value
Differentiate historical cost from current value.
Historical cost is the original acquisition cost and the most common measure of financial transactions while current value includes fair value, value in use, fulfillment value and current cost.
This is the process of preparing and distributing accounting reports to potential users.
Communicating
This is the process of systemically maintaining a record of all economic business transactions after they have been identified and measured.
Recording or journalizing
This is the sorting or grouping of similar and interrelated economic transactions into their respective classes.
Classifying
How is the classifying stage accomplished?
by posting to the ledger
This is a group of accounts which are systemically categories into asset accounts, liability accounts, equity accounts, expense accounts, and revenue accounts.
Ledger
This is the preparation of financial statements.
Summarizing
What law regulates the practice of accountancy in the Philippines.
RA 9298 or the Philippine Accountancy Act of 2004
This is the body authorized by law to promulgate rules and regulations affecting the practice of the accountancy profession in the Philippines.
Board of Accountancy
When is the Philippine CPA examination offered?
Twice a year, once in May and once in October
Who are the primary users of accounting information?
Investors and creditors
What are the main fields of practice of accountancy?
Private practice
Public practice
Government
Education
This field of accounting renders independent and expert financial services to the public.
Public accounting
What are the services offered in public accounting?
Auditing, taxation, and management advisory services
This is the examination of financial statements by independent CPAs for the purpose of expressing an opinion as to the fairness with which the financial statements are prepared.
Auditing
This service includes the preparation of annual income tax returns and determination of tax consequences of certain proposed business endeavors.
Taxation service
This service includes maintaining the records, producing the financial reports, preparing the budgets and controlling and allocating the resources of the entity.
Private accounting
This service encompasses transactions involving the receipt and disposition of government funds and property.
Government accounting
This is the acquisition of advanced knowledge, skill, and proficiency.
Continuing Professional Development
What are CPD credit units?
These are CPD credit hours required for the renewal of CPA license every 3 years.
How many CPD credits units are required for the renewal of CPA license?
15
How many CPD credit units are needed for the accreditation of a CPA to practice the accountancy profession.
120