F1 Flashcards

Standard Setting, Income Statement, Reporting Requirements

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What is FEDPRIA? (Standard setters of authoritative liaterature.)

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  • Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
  • Emerging issues task force (ETF)
  • Derivative implementation group issues
  • Accouting [P]rinciples Board Opinions
  • Accounting [R]esearch bulletins
  • Accounting [I]nterpretations
  • American Institute of Certified Public accountants (AICPA)
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Fundemental Characteristic of Useful Financial Information

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Relevance and Faithful representation.

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3
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Passing Confirms Money

Factors that determine relevance

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PCM

  • Predictive Value
  • Confirming Value
  • Materiality
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Completely Neutral is Free from error

Factors that determine Faithful Representation

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[CNF]

  • Completeness
  • Neutrality
  • Freedom from Error
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Compare and Verify in Time to Understand

Enhancing Qualitative Characteristics

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CVTU

  • Comparability
  • Verifiability
  • Timeliness
  • Understandability
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SFAC No. 5 Recognition and measurement in the financial Statements: The 5 statements.

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  1. Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet)
  2. Statement of Earnings (Income statement)
  3. Statement of Comprehensive Income
  4. Statement of Cash Flows
  5. Statement of Changes in Owner’s Equity
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MR DR

The Fundemental Recognition Criteria

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MR DR

  • Measurability
  • Reliability
  • Definitions
  • Relevance
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Revenue Recognition Principle

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Revenue is recognized when it is Earned, and realized or realizable.

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Realization vs. Recognition (Revenue)

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Realization - when entity obtains cash/right to receive cash (sale of asset) convert a noncash resource to cash

Recognition - actual recording of transactions and events in the Financial Statements

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10
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5, E Gc P Hc Rr

What are the Fundamental assumptions for Financial Statements? (GAAP)

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  1. Entity: Economic activity can be accounted for when considering an identifiable set of Activities
  2. Going Concern: The entity will continue to operate in the foreseeable future-Monetary Unit Assumption: It is assumed that money is an appropriate basis be which to measure Economic activity
  3. Periodicity
  4. Historical Cost principle: As a General Rule, financial information is based cost, not current market value
  5. Revenue realization principle
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IFRS has only 2 Fundamental assumptions

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  1. Accrual Basis Accounting
  2. Going Concern
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12
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REGL ALE needs ID

Elements of Financial Statements?

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REGL ALE needs ID

  • Revenue, Expenses, Gains, Loses
  • Assets, Liabilities, Equity
  • Investment by Owners, Distributions by Owners.
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UVOTE

FASB SFAC no. 7 Defines 5 elements of present value Measure for Assets and Liabilities

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UVOTE

  • Price for Bearing Uncertaintity (credit risk)
  • Expectations about timing Variations of Future Cash Flows
  • Other Factors (e.g. liquidity issues)
  • Time Value of Money (Risk-free Rate of Interest)
  • Estimate of Future Cash Flows
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14
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The process of putting Financial Information into a statement is to?

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Recognize!

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15
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Examples of Extraordinary Items?

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  1. Loss due to Infrequent Earthquake or Flood
  2. An Expropriation of an Asset by Government
  3. A prohibition of a product line by a newly enacted law or regulation
  4. Certain Gains or Losses from extinguishment long-term debt, provided that they are not a part of the entity’s recurring operations and, thus, meet the criteria of Unusual and Infrequent.
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16
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PEE

What are the 3 Accounting Changes?

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PEE

  1. Changes In Accounting Principle
  2. Changes in Accounting Estimate
  3. Changes in Accounting Entity
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17
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Changes in Accounting Estimate are reported?

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Prospectively. If the change in Estimate effects future periods (depreciation) it should be reported in a footnote.

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18
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Changes in Accounting Principle are Reported?

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Retrospectively.

Prior period Financial Statements need to be Restated.

Rule: Reporting Changes should be recognized by adjusting the beginning Retained Earnings in the earliest period for the cumulative effect of the change in Accounting principle.

19
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Change in Accounting Principle? (IFRS)

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Adjustment to prior year’s R/E.

Must present 3 Balance sheets and 2 of each other Financial Statements.

20
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An Error Correction is Reported?

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Prior Period adjustment. If there are no comparative financial statements, adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings net of tax.

21
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IDEA

The order of Income Statement Items is a Nice…?

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IDEA

  • Income from Continuing Operations
  • Discontinued Operations
  • Extraordinary Items
  • Adjustment in Accounting Principle Change.
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Costs associated with Exit and Disposal Activities are?

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  • Involuntary employee termination benefits
  • Costs to terminate a contract that is not a capital lease
  • Other costs associate with exit or disposal activities, including costs to consolidate facilities or relocate employees.
23
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PUFE-R

Other Comprehensive income is?

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PUFE-R

  • Pension Adjustments
  • Unrealized Gains and Losses
  • Foreign currency Items
  • Effective portion cash flow hedges
  • Revaluation Surplus.
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Revaluation Surplus is?

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IFRS only. Gains recognized in OCI when intangible assets and fixed assets are revalued in IFRS.

25
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Under US GAAP comprehensive Income may be present in:

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  • Single statement of comprehensive income (GAAP, IFRS)
  • Income statement followed by a separate statement of comprehensive income that begins with net income (GAAP, IFRS)
  • Statement in changes in Equity (GAAP)
26
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Summary of Significant Accounting policies is?

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Required by both GAAP and IFRS

27
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Summary of Significant accounting policies must not include?

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  1. Composition of accounts and amounts in dollars of account balances
  2. Details relating to changes in accounting principle
  3. Dates of maturity and amounts of long-term debt
  4. Yearly computation of depreciation, depletion and amortization.
28
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4

Disclosure of Risks and Uncertainties

F1-44

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  1. Nature of Operations (Concentration exists at F/S date)
  2. Use of Estimates in Preparation of Financial Statements
  3. Certain Significant Estimates
  4. Current Vulnerability due to Certain Concentrations near-term severe impact
29
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Interim Financial reporting addresses what enhancing characteristic?

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Timeliness

30
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Interim Financial Report should be viewed as

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An integral part of the annual Financial statements.

31
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Inventory Declines Permanent and Temporary?

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Permanent: Recognize in the Quarterly Statement.

Temporary: Should not be recognized.

32
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Income Taxes in Interim Statements.

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Use the Effective annual rate. Tax is YTD total income times effective rate less previously booked tax.

33
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Enacted or Substantially enacted

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IFRS both.

GAAP - Only enacted!

34
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Segment Profit or Loss formula

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Revenues
Less: Traceable Costs
Less: Reasonably Allocated Costs
= Operating profit (loss)

35
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The 10% size test rules for reporting segments

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Meet ANY of the tests to qualify as reportable segment

  1. Revenue - A segment (including sales to External and Intercompany customers, but excluding interest income, on advances and loans to other segments
  2. Profit or Loss - Only if the combined entity profit is not a loss, and Combined loss of all segments did not report a loss
  3. Assets - Assets of segment must report to or are review by the CEO.
36
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Under Regulation S-X must report a minimum of 2

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Balance Sheets

37
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10-Ks must be filed withing what time Frame?

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60 days for large accelerated filers

75 days for accelerated filers

90 days for all other registrants.

38
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Form 6K

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Filed semiannually by foreign private issuers. Similar to 10Q contains unaudited Financial Statements, interim period MD&A, certain disclosures.

39
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Form 11K

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Annual report of company’s employee benefit plan(s)

40
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Forms 3, 4, 5

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Required to be filed by

  • Directors
  • Officers
  • Beneficial owners with > 10% of a class of equity securities of the registered company
41
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Forms 20F, 40F

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Filed annually by foreign private investors

20F - Other non-US registrants

40F - Canadian companies registered b SEC

42
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Form 8K

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Reports major corporate events:

  • Corporate acquisitions
  • Disposals
  • Changes in securities & trading markets
  • Changes in corporate governance
  • Changes to accountants or Financial Statements
43
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Which statements are usually included in a set of personal financial statements?

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A statement of financial condition and a statement of changes in net worth.

An income statement and a statement of cash flows are normally not included in a set of personal financial statements.