FAR 21 Flashcards
The effective interest rate for a loan restructured in a troubled debt restructuring is based on:
the original contractual rate.
How do you record donated fixed assets?
When an asset is received from a governmental entity, no income is recognized, and the offsetting credit is to an owners’ equity account, “Additional Paid-In Capital: Donated Assets.”
Assets donated by entities other than governmental units are included in revenue in the period of receipt.
If several dissimilar assets are purchased for a lump sum, the total amount paid should be allocated to each individual asset on the basis of its relative fair value.
Which of the following ratios useful in assessing the liquidity position of a company?
Defensive-interval ratio-The defensive-interval ratio is a measure of time the company can survive (continue to pay operating expenses in cash) using only the quick assets (cash, marketable securities, and net accounts receivable). Thus, it is computed by dividing total quick assets by average daily cash expenditures. This is a liquidity measure, as it assesses how long a company can continue to keep up with its debts.
What is the par value method?
The par value method is a method for accounting for the purchase and resale of treasury stock that uses the two-transaction view: as (1) the purchase and retirement and (2) the subsequent reissuance of the shares. The par value method uses a contra-capital stock account: for purchases, it reduces capital stock, contributed capital, and/or retained earnings; for resale, it increases capital stock and contributed capital. The par value method has the same effect on total stockholders’ equity as the cost method but apportions the amount to the component equity accounts.
How to calculate the PV of a notes receivable?
Maturity amount x Present value factor If the note matures within the current 1-year accounting period, record at original note value.
Which of the following should be disclosed by a company providing health care benefits to its retirees?
The assumed health care cost trend rate used to measure the expected cost of benefits to its retirees
The accumulated postretirement benefit obligation
what is not a comprehensive basis of accounting other than generally accepted accounting principles?
Basis of accounting used by an entity to comply with the financial reporting requirements of a lending institution
Under the LIFO method
the last goods in are treated as the first ones included in cost of goods sold.
The perpetual method of LIFO treats units sold as
coming from the last units acquired prior to that sale.
When using the periodic method, the inventory is not valued until
the end of the period
The term “tax position” as used in FASB ASC 740-10-20 refers to ?
A.
A decision not to file a tax return
B.
An allocation or a shift of income between jurisdictions
C.
The characterization of income or a decision to exclude reporting taxable income in a tax return
Final year income for the percentage of completion method would be calculated as:
Total contract revenue XXX
Less actual total costs - XX
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Total income from contract XX
Less income previously recognized - X
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Income recognized in final year
A building suffered uninsured fire damage. The damaged portion of the building was refurbished with higher quality materials. The cost and related accumulated depreciation of the damaged portion are identifiable. To account for these events, the owner should:
capitalize the cost of refurbishing and record a loss in the current period equal to the carrying amount of the damaged portion of the building.
What is a liquidating dividend?
The liquidating dividend is that portion of the cash dividend that exceeds the balance in retained earnings because other equity accounts must be debited.
What does common stock outstanding mean?
Outstanding refers to the number of shares of capital stock that have been issued and are currently owned by stockholders. Treasury stock is not considered to be “outstanding” since it is owned by the issuing corporation, not by outside shareholders. Outstanding is an important aspect of earnings per share calculations.
The number of bonds that have been issued and are currently owned by bondholders and accounts receivable that have not been collected are both examples of outstanding numbers.
What is the JE to record issuance of stock?
Cash
C/S Par
APIC
What is the JE to record buy back (for more than par) and retirement of stock
Common stock Par
APIC
Cash
APIC retired stock
When Mill retired from the partnership of Mill, Yale, and Lear, the final settlement of Mill’s interest exceeded Mill’s capital balance. Under the bonus method, the excess:
Decreases the capital balances of the other partners.
FASB ASC 505-50-15-2 establishes a fair value approach for stock-based employee compensation plans. The fair value methodology is also extended to cover issuance of:
Equity instruments for good and services.
Which of the following is an objective of a rabbi trust?
Companies arrange various types of deferred compensation. The most common is referred to as a rabbi trust. A grantor trust is set up to fund compensation for a group of managers or executives. The goal is to provide a benefit that is not taxable to the recipients until some later date when they actually receive compensation. To qualify for no current taxation, the trust agreement must explicitly state that the assets of the trust are available to satisfy the claims of general creditors in the event of bankruptcy of the employer.
Cash collection is a critical event for income recognition in:
both the cost recovery method and the installment method.
A disadvantage of the periodic inventory system is that
cost of goods sold amount used for financial reporting purposes includes both the cost of inventory sold and inventory shortages.
How do you calculate periodic inventory COGS?
Cost of goods sold as the difference between cost of goods available for sale and ending inventory. This system does not maintain records indicating what the amount of ending inventory should be. It simply requires a company to determine what the amount of ending inventory is at period end.
what is a direct financining lease?
As its name implies, a direct-financing lease is basically the coupling of a sale and financing transaction. In this case, the lessor removes the leased asset from its books and replaces it with a receivable from the lessee. The only income recognized by the lessor is the interest received. The implied rate is taken by calculating IRR of the asset; cash inflow is equal to lease payments and cash outflow is equal to the book value of the lease asset.