F1 Flashcards
FASB and IASB conceptual frameworks indicates that the following are primary users:
- creditors
- lenders
- investors
The fundamental qualitative characteristics of useful financial info are:
- faithful representation
- relevance
enhancing qualitative characteristics of useful financial information:
- understandability
- timeliness
- verifiability
- comparability
Neutrality, freedom from error, and completeness are components of:
faithful representation
Materiality, predictive value, and confirming value are components of:
relevance
____ is the process of recording an item in the FS of an entity
recognition
_____ is the accounting process of assigning or distributing an amount according to a plan or a formula
allocation
______ is simultaneous or combined recognition of the revenues and expenses that result directly and jointly from the same transactions or other events
matching of costs and revenues
_____ is the process of converting noncash resources and rights into money
realization
Financial information provided in general purpose financial reports should include information about:
- the resources of the entity
- the claims against the entity
- how effectively and efficiently the entity’s management and governing board have discharged their responsibilities to use the entity’s resources
_______ is the single source of US GAAP.
FASB accounting standards codification
SFAC defines the following elements of present value measurement:
- the Price for Bearing uncertainty
- expectations about timing variations of future cash flows
- other factors (liquidity issues and market imperfections)
- time value of money (the risk free rate of interest)
- estimate of future cash flow
Differences between managerial and financial accounting:
- financial must follow GAAP, managerial doesn’t
- financial focus on reporting past results, managerial focus on future
- financial is more precise
- emphasis of financial is providing useful info to FS users, emphasis of managerial is providing timely info to management decision makers
_____ is the quality of info that helps users forecast future outcomes
predictive value
______ provides feedback about evaluations previously made by users
confirming value
_____ is the depiction of financial info that is free from bias in selection or presentation
neutrality
_________ means that money is the common denominator for economic activity and provides an appropriate basis for accounting measurements and analysis
monetary unit assumption
______ is that economic activity can be accounted for when considering an identifiable set of activities
economic entity assumption
________ is that economic activity can be divided into meaningful time periods
periodicity assumption
_______ presumes that an entity will continue to operate in the foreseeable future
going concern assumption
______ is defined as the amount of cash or its equivalent that would be paid to acquire or replace an asset currently.
replacement cost
_______ is the selling price of an asset less any disposal costs
net realizable value
______ is the amount paid by a company to acquire an asset
historical cost
________ is the price to sell (not aquire) an asset
current market value, fair value
An accounting standards update is issued only after:
majority vote of the members of the FASB
Interim financial reporting should be viewed as reporting for:
an integral part of an annual period
according to the FASB conceptual framework, assets are:
probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by a particular entity as a result of past transactions or events
Revenues are inflows or other enhancements of assets and/or settlements (decreases) in:
liabilities resulting from the entity’s ongoing major operations
The primary objective of finanical reporting:
to provide info that is useful for economic decision making
The FASB updates the Accounting standards codification for new US GAAP issued by the FASB, and for any changes o existing GAAP, with:
Accounting Standards Updates
______ are issued by the SEC and are a summarization of the views of the SEC’s staff regarding how GAAP are to be applied
Staff Accounting Bulletins
______, a precodification term, were used to provide FASB staff guidance on implemenation and practice problems that would assist in the application of GAAP
technical bulletins
Under US GAAP, a material transaction that is infrequent in occurence and or unusual in nature should be presented separately as a component of income from continuing operations when the transaction results in:
a gain or loss
Under US GAAP, a material transaction that is infrequent in occurence and or unusual in nature should be presented separately as a component of income from continuing operations when the transaction results in:
a gain or loss (NOT net of tax)
In the single step income statement, what is included in total revenue? What is not included?
included: total revenues all sales of goods, services, and rentals
not included: purchase discounts (reduce COGS), recovery of accounts written off
When accounts written off are recovered, what are the journal entries?
- AR
AFUA - Cash
AR
The adjustment for the prior year understatement of amortization expense is a prior period adjustment that will be reflected in:
beginning RE
unrealized gain on the available for sale debt security would be reported in:
OCI
If storms are considered frequent, the damage is not considered unusal. Thus, the damages would be reported by:
showing the actual loss in continuing operations
no separate disclosure
What is freight out?
selling expense
gains and losses from fixed asset sales are reported using:
the net concept (proceeds less carrying amount), showing the total gain or loss as part of continuing operations, NOT net of income taxes
items included in OCI:
- pension adjustments
- unrealized gains or loss
- foreign currency items
- the effective portion of cash flow hedges
What is freight in?
COGS expense
the loss on abandonment of equipment is treated like:
a sale reported in income from continuing operations (loss)
gain on reacquistion and retirement of bonds that is infrequent and unusal is reported in:
income from continuing operations
the minimum operating cycle for purposes of reporting a prepaid current asset is:
one year
segregated bank account to be used to pay a current maturity of a long term bond sinking fund debt should be classified as:
noncurrent asset
an overdraft in a bank account should be reported as:
current liability (because no legal right of offset exists at different banks)
if included in AR is a receivable from a customer with an agreement to payments that extend for more than one year than how is it reported?
current asset for the amount to be received in the next year
noncurrent asset for the remaining amount
interest expense is classified as:
separate line item on income statement (NOT admin expense)
deposits received by customers and unearned rent represent:
liabilities
under IFRS, the following would be included in income from continuing operations:
- a large loss from a foreign currency transaction
- a union strike that shuts down operations for three months
- a foreign government takes possession of a company’s only plant
- damage to a factory due to an earthquake in an area that had not previously experienced earthquakes
the line item income (loss) from operations is shown:
gross (before taxes)
income from continuing operations is displayed:
net of taxes in either a single step or multiple step income statement. only used in the event that the reporting organization is required to report discontinued operations
Service revenue is recognized with ___________ under US GAAP and using the percentage of completion method under IFRS, not at the time of original sale
GAAP: the passage of time over the life of the service contracts,
IFRS: using the percentage of completion method
how should unearned rent that has already been paid by tenants for the next 8 months of occupancy be reported in landlord’s FS?
current liability (unearned rev)
how should unearned rent that has already been paid by tenants for the next 8 months of occupancy be reported in tenants FS?
current asset (prepaid rent)
output method to recognize revenue:
milestones achieved
input methods to recognize revenue:
- resources consumed
- costs incurred to total expected costs
- labor hours expended
any discount that exists in a contract (based on the total value of the contract versus the standalone value of each obligation summed within the contract) should be allocated:
proportionally across all obligations within the contract
when ________________, this would indicate that the services can be combined into a single performance obligation
the services are all very similar in nature and can be provided to the buyer in a similar manner
when __________________-, then the performance obligation overall can be split apart into distinct components
the buyer can benefit from each service independently or in conjunction with her own available resources and when the promise to deliver each service is separately identifiable from the other services
For percentage of completion and completed contract, the entire estimated loss is recorded for:
a loss contract in progress (not only the loss incurred to date)
under the completed contract method, revenue is recognized when the contract is compete, however expected losses are recognized:
immediately in their entirety
when a company uses the __________ method of accounting for a 5 year construction contract, income previously recognized would be used to calculate the income recognized in the second year
percentage of completion
When a company uses the US GAAP ____________ method to account for a long term construction contract, revenue is recognized when the job is completed, NOT when progress billings are collected or when they exceed recorded costs
completed contract
when the _____________ method of recording revenue is used, engineering estimates of completion or costs incurred to date vs. total estimated costs is the basis for recognizing revenue, not progress billings
percentage of completion
under percentage of completion method, annual gross profit equals:
(total cost incurred/total expected cost) * (total expected gross profit) - total gross profit previously recognized
The accumulated costs + estimated earnings > related billings will represent:
current asset
subtract from billings to get amount
A ______ exists when progress billings > accumulated costs + estimated earnings
liability
subtract from costs and estimated earnings to get amount
costs that would not have been incurred if the contract had not been obtained can be recognized as:
an asset (part of incremental cost of obtaining contract)