Financial Reporting and Analysis: Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow Statements Flashcards
Understanding Income Statements: Income Statement Attributes
- Alternative names:
Statement of operations
Statement of earnings
Profit and Loss statement
Revenue - Expenses = Net Income
- IFRS: May combine with comprehensive income items
- Two types:
- Single step
- Multi-step
Understanding Income Statements: Revenues, Expenses, and Gains & Losses
- Revenues: Amounts reported from the sale of goods and services in the normal course of business. Revenue less adjustments for estimated returns and allowances is known as net revenue.
- Expenses: Amounts incurred to generate revenue and include cost of goods sold, operating expenses, interest, and taxes. Expenses grouped together by their nature.
- Gains and losses: Typically arise on the disposal of long-lived assets.
Understanding Income Statements: Multi-step Income Statement

Understanding Income Statements: IASB Requirements for Revenue Recognition (General Principles)
- Risk and reward of ownership transferred
- No continuing control or management over the good sold
- Reliable revenue measurement
- Probable flow of economic benefits
- Cost can be measured reliably
Understanding Income Statements: IASB Requirements for Revenue Recognition for Services
- When the outcome can be measured reliably, revenue will be recognized by the reference to the stage of completion
- Outcome can be measured reliably if:
- Amount of revenue can be measured
- Probable flow of economic benefits
- Stage of completion can be measured
- Cost incurred and remaiing cost to complete can be measured
Understanding Income Statements: SEC Requirement for Revenue Recognition
“Revenue should be recognized when it is realizable and earned” FASB
SEC Additional guidance:
- Evidence of an arrangement between buyer and seller
- Completion of the earnings process, firm has delivered product or service
- Price is determined
- Assurance of payment, able to estimate probability of payment
Understanding Income Statements: Revenue Recognition Methods
- Sales-basis method – used when good or service is provided at time of sale, cash, or credit with high payment probability (majority of transactions)
- Exceptions (construction contracts)
- Percentage-of-completion method- used for L-T projects under contract, with reliable estimates of revenue, costs, and completion time
- Completed-contract method (U.S. GAAP) – used for L-T project with no contract, or unreliable estimates of revenue or costs; revenue and expenses are not recognized until project is completed (IFRS: Report revenue but no profit)
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Installment sales method (U.S. GAPP) - used when firm cannot estimate likelihood of collection, but cost of goods/servicesis known; revenue and profit are based on percentage of cash collected
- Installment sale: A firm finances a sale and payments are expected to be received over an extended period. If collectability is certain, revenue is recognized at the time of sale using normal revenue recognition criteria.
- Cost recovery method (most extreme) - used when cost of good/servies is unknown and firm cannot estimate the likelihood of colle tion; only recognize profit after all costs are recovered
Understanding Income Statements: Percentage of Completion Method - Problem


Understanding Income Statements: Completed-Contract Method
Revenue and expenses are not recognized until project is completed

Understanding Income Statements: IFRS: Long-term Contracts With Uncertain Outcome
Revenue and expenses are recognized over the project’s life; however, no profit is reccorded until project is completed.

Understanding Income Statements: POC vs CC Method
- Net income is higher for POC because CC does not recognize revenue until completion
Rise in Net income Rise in Equity (until final year)
- Income volatility is greater with the CC method because POC recognizes some revenue and income each year instead of all at one time
- Cash flow is the same for both (CF is unaffected by the revenue recognition method used)
Understanding Income Statements: Installment Sales Method - Problem


Understanding Income Statements: Cost Recovery Method


Understanding Income Statements: Installment sale: IFRS
- Present value of the installment payments is recognized at the time of sale
- Difference between installment payments and the discounted present value is recognized as interest over time
- If the outcome of the project cannot be estimated reliably, revenue recognition under IFRS is similar to cost recovery method
Understanding Income Statements: Barter
- Exchange of goods or services between two parties (no exchange of cash)
- A agrees to exchange inventory for a service provided by B
- IFRS: Revenue = fair value of similar non-barter transactions with unrelated parties
- U.S. GAAP: Revenue = fair value only if the company has received cash payments for such servies historically (otherwise record sale at carrying value of asset)
Understanding Income Statements: Gross vs. Net Reporting
- Internet-based merchandising companies
- Sell product but never hold in inventory
- Arrangement for supplier to ship directly to end customer
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U.S. GAAP: Report gross if company
- is primary obligator
- Bears inventory risk
- Bears credit risk
- Can choose supplier
- Has latitude to set price
If criteria are not met, then company is action as an agent: report net

Understanding Income Statements: Revenue Rec Implications for Analysis
Review revenue recognition policies in footnotes:
- Earlier revenue recognition - aggressive
- Later revenue recognition - conservative
- Consider estimates used in methods
- Assess how different policies would affect financial ratios
Understanding Income Statements: Revenue Recognition - Problem


Understanding Income Statements: Expense Recognition
Accrualbasis - matching principle
- Match costs against associated revenues
- Examples
- Inventory
- Depreciation/Amortization
- Warranty expense
- Doubtful debt expense
Period expenses
- Expenditures that less directly match the timing of revenues (e.g. admin costs)
Understanding Income Statements: Analysis Implications
Requires significan estimates and assumption affecting net income:
- Inventory valuation
- Warranty expense
- Depreciation
- Amortization
- Doubtful debt provisions
- Revenue recognition
- Review year-on-year consistency
- Review footnotes and MD&A
Understanding Income Statements: Inventories: Matching Principle
Beginning inventory + Purchases - Ending inventory = COGS
Cost of goods sold should be matched with items sold and recorded as revenue over the period
Inventory cost flow should match goods flow
- Specific identification
- Average cost
- First-in-first-out
Understanding Income Statements: Depreciation Methods

Understanding Income Statements: Amortization
- Amortization of intangible assets (e.g. patents)
- Spreading cost over life
- If the earnings patterns cannot be established, use straight line (IAS 38)
- IFRS and U.S. GAAP firms both typically amortize straight-line with no residual value
- Goodwill not amortized - checked annually for impairment
Understanding Income Statements: Unusual or Infrequent Items
- “Or” is the key word that describes these items
- Reported pretax before net income from continuing operations (above the line)
- Items include:
- Gain (loss) from disposal of a business segment or asset
- Gain (loss) from sale of investment in subsidiary
- Provisions for environmental remediation
- Impairments, write-offs, write-downs, restructuring
- Integrateion expense for recently acquired business






























































