F-1Concepts Flashcards

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Since 1934 who have determine GAAP?-SCAF

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SEC
CAP
APB
FASB

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What mean SEC?

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Security and Exchange Commission

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What mean APB?

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Accounting Principle Board

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What mean CAP?

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Committee on Accounting Procedure

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Who was establish SEC and What Establish?

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  • Was establish by Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
  • SEC has all reporting requirement for any company listed in US exchange
  • All companies that issue securities must be follow SEC rules and regulations
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What happened on July 1 2009?

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The FASB “Accounting Standard Codification” summarize in a single source of authoritative non-governmental GAAP.

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Authoritative Standard Setters include in the codification? FEDPRIA

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Financial Accounting Standard Board
Emerging Issue Task Force
Derivative 
P- Accounting Principle Board Opinion
R- Accounting Research Bulletin
I- Accounting Interpretation
A- American Institute of Certified Public Accountant
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Literature that include FASB? SITSSS

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S- Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
I- Interpretations
T- Technical Bulletin
S- Staff Position
S- Staff Implementation Guides
S- Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts

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Literature that include AICPA? SAPT

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S-Statement of Position
A- Auditing and Accounting Guides
P- Practice Bulletin
T-Technical Inquiry Service

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To increase the usefulness of the codification for public companies the SEC include in codification: (Authoritative Pronouncement)

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  • Regulation S-X Regulation
  • Financial Reporting Releases for (FRR)
  • Accounting Series Releases Accounting (ASR)
  • Interpretative Releases I (IR)
  • Staff Accounting Bulletin S (SAB)
  • EITF Emerging
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What is FAF and What create?

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  • Is Financial Accounting Foundation

- Create the PCC - Private Company Council

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What is the goal of the PCC?

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  • the goal is to establish alternative GAAP to make the private financial statement:
  • More Relevant
  • Cost-Beneficial
  • Less Complex
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What is an ASU, what provide and to what is serve?

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  • Accounting Standard Update
    • Provide background information
    • Update the codification
    • Describe why is for the update
  • Serve to update the Accounting Standard Codification (ASC)
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What is the IASB and when was establish?

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  • International Accounting Standard Board

- Was establish on 2001 as part of the International Financial Accounting Standard Foundation

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What is the purpose of the IASB?

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-the purpose is to develop a single set of high qualitative global standards of accounting.

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IFRS Foundation is Sponsor of?

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  • IASB (International Accounting Standard Board)

- IFRIC (International Financial Reporting Committee)

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What do IFRIC?

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  • help IASB in establish and improve financial accounting and reporting
  • assist IASB for international convergence
  • provide guidance for new identified reporting issues
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What is IFRS and what include?

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-International Financial Reporting Standards
-Include:
= International Accounting Standars
= InternationalFinancial Reporting Standards
= Interpretations

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What it call the FASB Conceptual Framework

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Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts

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What is the name of SFAC No. 8 and the chapter 1 & 3?

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  • Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting
  • Chapter 1- Objective of General Purpose Financial Reporting
  • Chapter 3- Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Information
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What is the objective of general purpose financial reporting?

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  • is to provide financial information of the reporting entity to primary users that is useful to make decision about how many resources provide to the reporting entity.
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What are the primary users?

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  • External Users:
  • Existing and Potential:
    • Investors
    • Lenders
    • Other Creditors
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What reflects this financial reporting?

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  • Entity resources
  • Claims against the entity
  • management and governing board performance
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Fundamental Qualitative Characteristics?

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  • Relevance

- Faithful Representation

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What Relevance Means?

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Means that the financial information is relevant when it capable to change the decision of the primary users.

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What mean faithful representation?

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That the reporting entity must faithfully represent the economic phenomena.

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To the information be relevance, what are the characteristics to have?

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  • Predictive Value
  • Confirming Value
  • Materiality
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What is predictive value?

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The information has predictive value when the user can predict the future outcomes.

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What is confirming value?

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The information has confirming value when it provides feedback about the evaluation previously made by users.

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What is Materiality?

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the information is material when the omission or misstatement could affect the decision made by users.

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What characteristics require faithful representation?

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  • Completeness
  • Neutrality
  • Free from Error
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What mean completeness?

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-when the financial information include all information necessary that the user can use to understand the economic phenomena. This include the financial statements and its notes.

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What mean neutrality?

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-When the financial information is free from bias in selection or representation.

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What mean free from error?

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-When the process of selection or application to creating financial statements have no errors or omissions in the description of economic phenomena.

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Steps to apply fundamental qualitative characteristics

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  • identify the phenomena
  • identify the type of information that is relevant
  • -determine whether the information is available and can be faithfully represented.
36
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What is an enhancing characteristic?

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  • enhance the usefulness of information that is relevant and faithfully represented.
  • are used to know how a phenomena is represented
37
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Which are the enhancing characteristics?

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  • Comparability
  • Verifiability
  • Timeliness
  • Understandability
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What mean Comparability?

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-the information is more useful when the user can compare same information but similar reporting entities in the same or other periods.

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Which characteristic helps to achieve comparability?

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-Consistency- because is refer to use same method through the time for the same items

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What mean verifiability?

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-To the information be more useful we need someone that must be independent to verify the information, to verify the consistency to compare it with other entity information.

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What mean timeliness?

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-Means that the information is available in time so the users can be capable to made the correct decision.

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What mean understandability?

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-the information is understandable if it is clearly presented, well classified, characterized and concisely.

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Which is the Principal Constraint for achieve that the information have all the characteristics?

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  • Cost
  • Because the benefits of presented financial reporting must be greater than the cost of obtaining and presenting that information.
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What Concepts were replace by SFAC 8?

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  • SFAC 1- Objective of Financial Reporting by Business Enterprise
  • SFAC 2 - Qualitative Characteristics of financial reporting
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SFAC 6 replace?

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SFAC 3- Elements of financial statements of a business

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What is the SFAC No. 4?

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  • Objective of Financial Reporting of Nonbusiness organizations.
  • Present the distinguish characteristics between business and nonbusiness.
47
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Characteristics of nonbusiness organization?

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  • Their resources come from contributions and grants
  • Do not provide goods and services for profit
  • Do not transfer or redeemed the ownership because it not exist.
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Users of financial Information of Nonbusiness Organizations? 4 groups

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  • Resources Providers such as lenders, suppliers, employees, members, contributors, taxpayers
  • The people who is benefit from the services provided
  • Governing and Oversight bodies
  • Manager
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Objectives of Financial Reporting of Nonbusiness Organization?

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  • improve the Allocation of resources
  • Evaluate the services and the ability to provide services
  • Evaluate the performance and stewardship of the manager.
  • Information about liquidity, resources, obligation, inflows and outflows.
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SFAC NO. 5?

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  • Recognition and Measurement in the Financial Statements.

- provide guidance on what and when the information should be incorporate in the financial statements.

51
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What mean recognition?

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-Is the process of recording an item in the financial statement and classifying it as asset, liability, equity, revenue, or expense.

52
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Which are the Measurement Attributes for Assets and Liabilities?

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  • Historical Cost- PP&E
  • Current Cost- Inventory
  • Net Realizable Value- A/R
  • Current Market Value- Marketable Securities
  • Present Value - Long-Term Debt (Bonds)
53
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Fundamental Assumptions?

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  • Entity Assumption
  • Going Concern Assumption
  • Monetary Unit Assumption
  • Periodicity Assumption
  • Historical Cost Principle
  • Revenue Recognition Principle
  • Matching Principle
  • Accrual Accounting
  • Full Disclosure
  • Conservatism Principle
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What mean entity assumption?

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-Company is a separate entity from the owner.

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What mean Going Concern Assumption?

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-The company is continuing the operations infinite

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What mean Monetary unit assumption?

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  • That all the financial information will be on a single currency.
  • Everything is measure as money
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What mean periodicity assumption?

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  • that the financial information will be report quarterly, semiannually, or annually.
  • The time will be divided in periods.
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What is Historical Principle?

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Financial information will be accounted for and based on cost not current market value.

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What is revenue recognition?

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Revenue should recognize when it earned, realize or realizable not when it receive.

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What is Matching Principle?

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  • When the expenses are matched against that revenue.

- Expenses incurred to generate a revenue.

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What is accrual accounting?

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  • revenues are recognize when they are earned and expenses are recognize in the same period of related revenue.
  • Might record the revenue or expense without the exchange of cash.
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What mean Full Disclosure principle?

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  • give user all necessary information so they can make a decision.
  • Example- footnotes on F/S . The footnotes are part of completeness requirements because explain the user the basis of why is that recording of that way.
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What mean conservatism principle?

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  • Recognize revenues/Gains when the processing earned is complete and expenses/loss immediately.
  • Method that not overstate the assets and understate the liabilities.
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SFAC No. 6?

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Elements of Financial Statements

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What is an element of financial statements?

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-They are the components of financial statements. And should be measure and recognize following the SFAC No. 5.

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Which are the elements?

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  • Revenue
  • Expense
  • Gain
  • Losses
  • Asset
  • Liability
  • Equity
  • Investment by owners
  • Distribution to Owners
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What is comprehensive income?

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Net Income minus other comprehensive income (transaction with owners except Investment and distribution by owners)

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Element Revenue?

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  • Revenues are inflows that compound the core of the business.
  • Serve to enhance the asset or reduct the liabilities.
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Element Expense?

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-Are outflows that compound the core of the business that include uses of assets(depreciation), insurance of liabilities from delivering goods or services.

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Element Gains?

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Are increases in Equity that is not part of the normal business operation

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Element Loss?

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Are decrease in Equity that is not part of the normal operation. Example Impairments and Write-Off

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Element Asset?

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are probable future economic benefits to be receive by the company as result of past operation.

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Element Liability?

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are probable future sacrifices of economic benefits arising for a present transaction to transfer asset or provide services to other entities in the future as result of past transaction.

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Element Equity?

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Residual interest of the company that remains after deducting its liabilities

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Element Investment by owners?

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Increase in assets from transfer cash, property, or services to the company.

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Element Distribution to owners?

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Decrease in assets from transfer cash, property, or services the owners

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SFAC No. 7?

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Using Cash Flow Information and Present Value in Accounting

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For what is used SFAC 7? what provide?

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  • provide a framework to when employ the future cash flow as measurement.
  • Also provide a set of use for present value when the timing or amount of cash flow are uncertain.
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Five elements of PV? EETPO

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  • Estimate future cash flows
  • Expectations about timing variations of future cash flows
  • tima value money
  • price bearing for uncertainty
  • Other Factors- liquidity issues or market imperfections
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Two approaches for PV?

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  • Traditional Approach

- Expected Cash flow Approach

81
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What is the traditional approach?

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-Is focus on interest. This approach when the interest is fixed or the cash flow are not expect to vary.

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What is the Expected future cash flow approach?

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-Not focus on interest rate , focus on risk-free rate of return as the discount rate taking in counts the uncertainty.

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According to the IASB, what is an underlying assumption of financial statement preparation and presentation?

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Going Concern Assumption